1. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980) p. 156.
2. For a very cogent and persuasive account of the centrality of the belly in this period see Michael Schoenfeldt, ‘Fables of the Belly in Early Modern England’, The Body in Parts, ed. David Hillman and Carla Mazzio (London: Routledge, 1997) pp. 243–61.
3. Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, ed. A. C. Hamilton (London: Longman, 1977). See letter to ‘Sir Walter Raleigh knight’: ‘The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline’ (p. 737).
4. On Spenser’s body narratives see Susanne Scholz, Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England (Basingstoke: Macmillan — now Palgrave, 2000).
5. Collection of Additional Manuscripts Preserved in the British Museum 34324, fol. 179, cited in B. E. Supple, Commercial Crisis and Change in England, 1600–1642: A Study in the Instability of a Mercantile Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959) p. 53.