aps
the reader will express some surprise when he is told that shops with
the sign of the _chequers_, were common among the Romans. See a view of
the left-hand street of Pompeii (No. 9) presented by Sir William
Hamilton (together with several others equally curious) to the Antiquary
Society." [Compare "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," ii. 277-8.]
Marston, in the "First Part of Antonio and Mellida," act v., makes
Balurdo say: "No, I am not Sir Jeffrey Balurdo: I am not as well known
by my wit as an _alehouse_ by a _red lattice_."

[384] i.e., Defiles. See note on "Macbeth," edit. 1778, iv. 524.
--_Steevens_.

[385] [See note at p. 470.]

[386] The first edit, reads, _and any man else and he_.

[387] Three different departments of a prison, in which debtors were
confined according to their ability or incapacity to pay for their
accommodations: all three are pretty accurately described by Fennor in
"The Compter's Commonwealth," 1617.

[388] [Edits., _importance_.]

[389] _Sack_ with _sugar_ was formerly a favourite liquor. Although it
is mentioned very often in contemporary writers, it is difficult to
collect from any circumstances what the kind of wine then called _sack_
was understood to be. In the Second Part of "Henry IV.," act iv. sc. 3,
Falstaff speaks of _sherris sack_; and Dr Johnson supposes the fat
knight's admired potation was what we now call _sherry_, which he says
is drunk with sugar. This last assertion is contradicted by Mr Steevens,
who with more truth asserts that _sherry_ is at this time never drunk
with _sugar_, whereas _Rhenish_ frequently is. Dr Warburton seems to be
of opinion that the sweet wine still denominated _sack_ was that so
often mentioned by Falstaff, and the great fondness of the English
nation for _sugar_ rather countenances that idea. Hentzner, p. 88, edit.
1757, speaking of the manners of the English, says, _In potu copiosae
immittunt saccarum_--they put a great deal of sugar in their drink; and
Moryson, in his "Itinerary," 1617, p. 155, mentioning the Scots,
observes, "They drinke pure wines, not with _sugar, as the English_;"
again, p. 152, "But gentlemen garrawse onely in wine, with which many
mixe _sugar_, which I never observed in any other place or kingdome to
be used for that purpose: and because the taste of the English is thus
delighted with sweetnesse, the wines in tavernes (for I speak not of
merchants or gentlemen's cellars) are commonly mixed at the filling
th