Note 192 — ACT II. SCENE I.

the arts of Cocoquismo and Germania, &c.] Alvarez proceeds to explain his meaning; but I may just observe that Cocoquismo should perhaps be Cacoquismo, formed from the Spanish caco, a pickpocket (unless indeed it has some affinity with the phrase hacer cocos, to wheedle), and that Germania signifies, in that language, the jargon of the gipsies: see Neuman’s Span. and Engl. Dict. in vv.