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p. 168. Clitipho. A comic character in Heautontimoroumenos.

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FOOTNOTES

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Footnote 1:

Since listed as Early English Meals and Manners.

Footnote 2:

“The Book of the Polite Man, teaching manners for men, especially for boys, as a supplement to those which were omitted by the most moral Cato.”

Footnote 3:

Described and in part translated in an appendix to Queene Elizabethes Achademy.

Footnote 4:

Lust, i.e., pleasure.

Footnote 5:

Reached.

Footnote 6:

Mirth.

Footnote 7:

So Ascham: “It is pity, that commonly more care is had, yea, and that among very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.”

Footnote 8:

See p. 11, below.

Footnote 9:

The Grammar Schoole. 1612.

Footnote 10:

But Erasmus was a Dutchman. Oddly enough, about a century later, Pepys alludes to “these dirty Dutch fellows.”

Footnote 11:

Liber Faceti. See note.

Footnote 12:

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