Crossword-Solution: QUACKSALVER 11 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 29

Wilderhead’s powder of projection?” “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.

And now away--or remain and see if the end of the quacksalver belies his life.” “Our Lady forbid!” said Catharine.

Sir Politick Would-Be says to Peregrine:-- Well, if I could but find one man, one man, To mine own heart, whom I durst trust, I would-- 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.' [38] We need not explain that this is directed against the 'so-called stage-poets' and players.

Rutebeuf, one of the _trouvères_, thirteenth-century French poets, has a description of the scene in which one of the old herbalist doctors who used to go round and collect a crowd by means of songs and music, and then talk medicine to them--just as is done even yet in many of the smaller towns of this country--is represented as saying to the crowd when he wants to make them realize that he is no ordinary quacksalver, that he is one of the disciples of the great Madame Trot of Salerno.

Says Doctor Vigors in a Rage, "You are nothing but a barber-surgeon, brother, and learnt shaving on a sheep's head, and phlebotomy on a cow that had the falling fever." "Mountebank and quacksalver!" answers my passionate gentleman, "you bought your diploma from one that forges seamen's certificates in Sopar Lane.