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Thursday, February 26th, 1863
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2010
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page 216 note * Shakspere refers to this custom in the First Part of King Henry IV. (Act 1, Scene 3):–
“And that it was great pity, so it was,
That villainous salt-petre should be digg'd
Out of the bowels of the harmless earth.”
page 216 note † “Yet” in orig.
page 216 note ‡ Grate, i.e. groat.
page 216 note § This word is obliterated in the original.