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71 the vapours. = This ridiculous practise is
satirized in _Bart. Fair_, _Wks. _ 4. 3 (see also stage
directions).

=3. 3. 77 a distast. = The quarrel with Wittipol.

=3. 3. 79 the hand-gout. = Jonson explains the expression in
_Magnetic Lady_, _Wks. _ 6. 61.
You cannot but with trouble put your hand
Into your pocket to discharge a reckoning,
And this we sons of physic do call _chiragra_,
A kind of cramp, or hand-gout.

Cf. also Overbury's _Characters_, ed. Morley, p. 63: 'his liberality
can never be said to be gouty-handed. '

=3. 3. 81 Mint. = Until its removal to the Royal Mint on Tower
Hill in 1810, the work of coinage was carried on in the Tower of
London. Up to 1640, when banking arose, merchants were in the habit
of depositing their bullion and cash in the Tower Mint, under
guardianship of the Crown (see Wh-C. under _Royal Mint_, and _History
of Banking in all the Leading Nations_, London, 1896, 2. 1).

=3. 3. 86-8 let . .