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 430 NOTES �Apicius is represented as lauding the " liver, lights, brains and pettitoes " of a black China pig, and as speaking of a dish much in favor with certain Roman emperors, one of the elements of this dish being " a wild sow's hock and udder." �L. 46: "A Pestilential Sow, a meazled Pork" "Measles" was a name for several diseases of swine or sheep. Butler (Hudi- bras, Part I, Canto II, 1.688) has: "As e'er in measled pork was hatched." Tusser (Good Husbandry, chap. 17) has: Hog measeled kill For Fleming who will, �With evident derogatory estimate of the discrimination of the "Flemings." �FANSCOMB BAEN �L. 7 : " Through Ages pass'd consigned for Harbour meet." [Fanscomb-Barn, near Wye in Kent, is a privileg'd Retreat for Beg- gars.] �L.97: "Where the White Sparrow never soiled her Plumes "- [Fanscomb-Barn is famous for breeding white mice and white spar- rows.] �L. 100: " That flows near Pickersdane renowned Stream" [Pickersdane, is a point of Wye-Downs, where there is an excellent spring, much frequented by the scholars of the Free-School at Wye; who meet there to drink the water with sugar; which has been an ancient custom and a great diversion to them.] �L. 111. " Nor shou'd, quoth he, that Well o'er-hung with shade" [A very deep well, within a little wood near Fanscomb Barn.] �JEALOUSIE IS THE BAGE OF A MAN �L. 14: "Smooth, ev'ry clinging plume with anger lies." [A dove when angry or going to fight lays her feathers close.] �THE SPLEEN �L. 41: "We faint beneath the Aromatick Pain " Mr. Saints- bury (Short History of Eng. Lit., p. 563) suggests that Lady Win- chilsea borrowed her phrase " aromatic pain " from Dryden. The reference is probably to Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, st. 29, reads : Amidst whole heaps of spices lights a ball, �And now their odours armed against them fly; Some preciously by shattered porcelain fall And some by aromatic splinters die. ��� �