D — Do for to Doctour of Phisikes Tale (Part 3 of 3)

Doctors False dice, which are doctored, or made to turn up winning numbers.

" `The whole autechamber is full, my lord -
knights and squires, doctors and dicers.'

" `The dicers with their doctors in their pockets,
I presume.' " - Scott: Peveril of the Peak, chap.
xxviii.

"Or chaired at White's, amidst the doctors sit."
Dunciad, book i. 203.

Doctors The three best doctors are Dr. Quiet, Dr. Diet, and Dr. Merryman.

"Si tibi deficiant medici, medici tibi fiant
Hæc tria: Mens-læta, Requies,Moderata-Diæta."

Doctors' Commons A locality near St. Paul's, where the ecelesiastical courts were formerly held, and wills preserved. To "common" means to dine together; a term still used at our universities. Doctors' Commons was so called because the doctors of civil law had to dine together four days in each term. This was called eating their terms.

Doctors Disagree Who shall decide when doctors disagree. When authorities differ, the question sub judice must be left undecided. (Pope: Moral Essays, epistle iii. line 1.)

Doctor's Stuff Medicine; stuff sent from the doctor.

Doctored Wine (See To Doctor .)

Doctour of Phisikes Tale in Chaucer, is the Roman story of Virginius, given by Livy. There is a version of this tale in the Roman de la Rose, vol. ii. p. 74; and another, by Gower, in his Confessio Amantis, book vii.