No More Learning

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 . . . hazard. = Merecraft seems to mean: 'You are in no
hurry.
Pray therefore allow me to defer your business until I have
brought opportune aid to this gentleman's distresses at a time when
his fortunes are in a hazardous condition. ' The pregnant use of the
verb _timing_ and the unusual use of the word _terms_ for a period of
time render the meaning peculiarly difficult.

=3. 3. 106 a Businesse. = This was recognized as the technical
expression. Sir Thomas Overbury ridicules it in his _Characters_,
ed. Morley, p. 72: 'If any private quarrel happen among our great
courtiers, he (the Roaring Boy) proclaims the business--that's the
word, the business--as if the united force of the Roman Catholics
were making up for Germany. ' Jonson ridicules the use of the
word in similar fashion in the Masque of _Mercury Vindicated from
the Alchemists_.

=3. 3. 133 hauings. = Jonson uses the expression again in _Ev. Man
in_, _Wks. _ 1.