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The bolster wrapped round his nose and the two ends kissed behind his head, and his forehead resounded, and had he been Goliath, or Julius Caesar, instead of an old quacksalver, down he had gone. St. Denys guard me from such feeble opposites as thou! and above all from their weak arms thou diabolical young hypocrite."
"Charity is a fine thing and a fair," answered Sir Geoffrey; "but I must tell you, you do ill, dame, to wander about the country like a quacksalver, at the call of every old woman who has a colic-fit; and at this time of night especially, and when the land is so unsettled besides." "I am sorry to hear that it so," said the lady. "I had heard no such news."
"Pshaw! he is a quacksalver, and mountebank, and beggar." "Or Solicitor Drowndland's plan for draining the fens?" "He is a cheat, videlicet, an attorney." "Or the Laird of Lackpelf's sale of Highland woods?" "He is a Scotsman," said the Duke, "videlicet, both cheat and beggar." "These streets here, upon the site of your noble mansion-house?" said Jerningham.
When the stage is raised on the theatre for Volpone, who is disguised as a quacksalver, Sir Politick wishes to enlighten Peregrine as to the fellows that 'mount the bank. We need not explain that this is directed against the 'so-called stage-poets' and players.
I leave the images which it contains to thee as a legacy, simply because I hate and contemn thee something less than any of the absurd wretches whom I have hitherto been obliged to call fellow creatures. And now away or remain and see if the end of the quacksalver belies his life." "Our Lady forbid!" said Catharine.
Sir John Ramorny remained sunk in unpleasing reflections until he began to experience the incipient effects of his soporific draught. He then roused himself for an instant, and summoned his page. "Eviot! what ho! Eviot! I have done ill to unbosom myself so far to this poisonous quacksalver. Eviot!" The page entered. "Is the mediciner gone forth?" "Yes, so please your knighthood."
"In other words," said Tressilian, "he was a quacksalver and common cheat; but what has all this to do with my nag, and the shoe which he has lost?" Now here comes the MEDULLA, the very marrow, of my tale.
The fact is that Arcadia has recently been invaded by a gang of rascally adventurers from Corinth and elsewhere: Techne, 'a subtle wench, who under pretence of introducing the latest fashions of the towns corrupts the nymphs; Colax, whose courtier-airs find an easy prey in the hearts of the country-wenches; Alcon, a quacksalver, who introduces tobacco to ruin the constitutions of the shepherds; Lincus, 'a petty-fogger, who breeds litigation among the simple folk; and lastly Pistophanax, who seeks to undermine the worship of Pan.
Here is Mangis, who professes sorcery, and would sell himself to Satan to-night, but that Satan is not so weak as buy what he can have gratis, this Mangis, who would be a sorcerer, but is only a quacksalver, accuses of magic a true lad, who did but use in self-defence a secret of chemistry well-known to me and all churchmen."
I would liever die." "Foolish child, who seeks thy girlish secrets? Is it I, whose life hath been spent in searching Nature's? And for leaving Sevenbergen, what is there to keep me in it, thee unwilling? Is there respect for me here, or gratitude? Am I not yclept quacksalver by those that come not near me, and wizard by those I heal?
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