]
[co] {355} _Without means and he has not a stiver left_.
[co] {355} _Without means and he has not a stiver left_.
Byron
Gindely, 1885, i.
166.
_Vide ibid. _, for portrait of "Gabriel Bethlem, D. G. Princeps
Transsylvaniae, etc. , AEtatis suae 40, A^o Christi, 1620. "]
[168] {354}[From _super_, and _nagel_, "a nail. " To drink _supernaculum_
is to empty the cup so thoroughly that the last drop or "pearl," drained
on to the nail, retains its shape, and does not run. If "the pearl"
broke and began to slide, the drinker was "sconced. " Hence, good liquor.
See Rabelais' _Life of Gargantua, etc. _, Urquhart's Translation, 1863,
lib. i, ch. 5.
]
[co] {355} _Without means and he has not a stiver left_. --[MS. erased. ]
[cp] {357} _ This is one of those to whom I owe aid_. --[MS. erased. ]
[169] {364}[Compare Age of Bronze, line 130, _vide post_, p. 549. ]
[170] {365}[For the "merchant dukes" of Florence, see _Childe Harold_,
Canto IV. stanza lx. line 4. See, too, _ibid_. , stanza xlviii. line 8,
_Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 375, and 365, note 1. ]
[171] {367}["Your printer has made one odd mistake:--'poor as a _Mouse_'
instead of 'poor as a _Miser_.
_Vide ibid. _, for portrait of "Gabriel Bethlem, D. G. Princeps
Transsylvaniae, etc. , AEtatis suae 40, A^o Christi, 1620. "]
[168] {354}[From _super_, and _nagel_, "a nail. " To drink _supernaculum_
is to empty the cup so thoroughly that the last drop or "pearl," drained
on to the nail, retains its shape, and does not run. If "the pearl"
broke and began to slide, the drinker was "sconced. " Hence, good liquor.
See Rabelais' _Life of Gargantua, etc. _, Urquhart's Translation, 1863,
lib. i, ch. 5.
]
[co] {355} _Without means and he has not a stiver left_. --[MS. erased. ]
[cp] {357} _ This is one of those to whom I owe aid_. --[MS. erased. ]
[169] {364}[Compare Age of Bronze, line 130, _vide post_, p. 549. ]
[170] {365}[For the "merchant dukes" of Florence, see _Childe Harold_,
Canto IV. stanza lx. line 4. See, too, _ibid_. , stanza xlviii. line 8,
_Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 375, and 365, note 1. ]
[171] {367}["Your printer has made one odd mistake:--'poor as a _Mouse_'
instead of 'poor as a _Miser_.
