Liverpool.
[This famous conference was the _third_ held by divines of the Church
of England with the Jesuit Fisher (or Perse, as his name really was:
see Dodd's _Church History_, vol. iii. p. 394.). The first two were
conducted by Dr. Francis White: the latter by Bishop Laud, was held in
May, 1622, and the account of it published by R. B. (_i.e._ Dr. Richard
Baylie, who married Laud's niece, and was at that time his chaplain,
and afterwards president of St. John's College, Oxford). Should J. M.
possess a copy printed in 1620, it would be a literary curiosity. Laud
says himself, that "his _Discourse_ was not printed till April, 1624."]
_Drink up Eisell_ (Vol. iii., p. 119.).--Here is a passage in _Troilus and
Cressida_, in which _drink up_ occurs (Act IV. Sc. 1.):
"He, like a puling cuckold, would _drink up_
The lees and _dregs_ of a flat-tamed piece."
The meaning is plainly here _avaler_, not _boire_.
Here is another, which does not perhaps illustrate the passage in _Hamlet_,
but resembles it (Act III. Sc. 2.):
"When we vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers,
thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition enough, than
for us to undergo any difficulty imposed."