定義

• are corrup- tions of Zecchino (q.v.). Caesar Fred- erici in Hakluyt's Voyages, 1583 (ii. 342) mentions " Chickinos which be pieces of gold woorth seuen shillings a piece ster- ling." W. Parry, Travels of Sir A. Sher- Icy , 1601 (30) uses the expression " Feed- ing her with two chickins. " Chapman, in " May Day ", 1611, has " Half a chickeene to cut's throat," and Greaves in " Seraglio ". 1653 (9), says, " Six hundred thousand chicquins yearly."

  In the first quarto edition of Shakes- peare's Petioles, 1609 (iv. 2). we find men- tion of " three or four thousand checking," but in the later quartos, and in the third and fourth folios (1664, 1685), the same word is written " chickins " and " chick- eens," thus indicating that there was no fixed rule for the spelling.

資源

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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