taylor-wise on stalls round about, we were severally run up and
down by persons who proclaimed our qualities or trades, and what
might best recommend us to the buyer. I had a great black who was
appointed to sell me; this fellow, holding me by the hand, coursed
me up and down from one person to another, who called upon me at
pleasure to examine what trade I was of, and to see what labour my
hands had been accustomed to. All the seamen were soon bought up,
but it was mid-day ere I could meet with a purchaser."--See _A
modest Vindication of Titus Oates_, London, 1682.

2. The knight much wondered at his sudden wit;
And said, The term of life is limited,
Ne may a man prolong nor shorten it;
The soldier may not move from watchful sted,
Nor leave his stand until his captain bed.
_Fairy Queen, Book i. Canto 9._

3. The same artifice is used in "OEdipus," vol. vi. p. 149. to
impress, by a description of the feelings of the unfortunate pair
towards each other, a presentiment of their fatal relationship. The
prophecy of Nostradamus is also obviously imitated from the
response of the Delphic Pythoness to OEdipus.--_Ibid. See_ p. 156.

4. For, interpreter; more usually spelled dragoman.

5. A horrid Moorish punishment. The criminal was precipitated from a
high tower upon iron scythes and hooks, which projected from its
side. This scene Settle introduces in one of his tragedies.

6. These presages of misfortune may remind the reader of the ominous
feelings of the Duke of Guise, in the scene preceding his murder.
The superstitious belief, that dejection of spirits, without cause,
announces an impending violent death, is simply but well expressed
in an old ballad called the "Warning to all Murderers:"

And after this most bad pretence,
The gentleman each day
Still felt his heart to throb and faint,
And sad he was alway.

His sleep was full of dreadful dreams,
In bed where he did lie;
His heart was heavy in the day,
Yet knew no reason why.

And oft as he did sit at meat,
His nose most suddenly
Would spring and gush out crimson blood,
And straight it would be dry.

7. There is great art in rendering the interpretation of this ominous
dream so ingeniously doubtful. The latter circumstance, where the
Emperor recognises his murderer as a