Note 521 — ACT IV.
Reading edition
Dilke has an extraordinary note:—“In Cotgrave’s French Dictionary, Bourrachon is explained ‘a tippler, quaffer, toss-pot, whip-can,’ &c. Burrage may therefore, I conceive, mean beverage.” In that detestable concoction, claret-cup, the herb borage is still used; and Gerard, in his Herbal (1597) tells us that “the leaves and flowers of borage put into wine maketh men and women glad and merry, and driveth away all sadness, dulness, and melancholy” (p. 654).