Note 665:1 — Scene XII

There is a humour in the original which cannot be given in the translation. 'Die welschen alle,' &c., which word in classical German means the Italians alone; but in its first sense, and at present in the vulgar use of the word, signifies foreigners in general. Our word wall-nuts, I suppose, means outlandish nuts—Wallae nuces, in German 'Welschnüsse'.—T.