IN CINEAM. XXIII. When Cineas comes amongst his friends in morning, He slyly looks who first his cap doth move: But, Cineas, why expect ++ you more of me For vault, and dance, and fence,++ and rhyme You keep a whore at your own charge, men tell me; Indeed, friend Cineas, therein you excel me.§§ and fence and daunce." §§ excel me] MS. adds; "You keepe a whore att your [own] charge in towne; Indeede, frend Ceneas, there you put me downe." summer-time] So eds.-MS. "sommer." ¶¶ counter-scarfs] i. e. counter-scarps,-a spelling frequent in old writers. So eds.-MS. "counterscapes." · *** casamates] Eds. "casomates."-MS. "cassamates." ttt of parapets, curtains, and palisadoes] Eds. "Of parapets, of curteneys, and pallizadois."-MS. "Of parapelets, curtens, and passadoes." 11 of flankers, ravelins, gabions] So eds.-MS. ffranckers, ravelinges, and gabions.” 'Of And of false-brays,* and † sallies, and scaladoes. But, to requite such gulling terms as these, With words of my profession I§ reply; I tell of fourching, vouchers, and || counterpleas, So, neither of us understanding either,** IN DECIUM.‡‡ XXV. Audacious painters have Nine Worthies made; But poet Decius, more audacious far, false-brays] i. e. counter-breast-works, mounds raised to mask some part of the works. So ed. A, and MS.Eds. B, C, "false baits." tand] So eds.-MS. "of."-With this passage compare the following lines; "See Captaine Martio, he i'th'' Renounce me' band, That in the middle region doth stand Wo' th' reputation steele ! Faith, lets remoue Hee'l tell of basilisks, trenches, retires, Of pallizadoes, parepets, frontires, Of caluerins, and baricadoes too, What to bee harquebazerd, to lye in perdue," &c. Fitzgeoffrey's Notes from Black-Fryers, Sig. E 7,—a portion of the vol. entitled Certain Elegies, &c., ed. 1620. But] So eds.-MS. "And." § I] So eds.-MS. "to." || fourching.... and] So eds.-MS. "forginge... of." withernams] So eds. A, B ; and MS.-Ed. C" wither mans." ** either] So ed. A.-Eds. B, C, "one an other."-MS. "other." tt wise as when] So eds.-MS. "wisely as." 1 In Decium] Jonson told Drummond "That S. J. Davies played in ane Epigrame on Draton's, who, in a sonnet, concluded his Mistriss might been the Ninth [Tenth] Worthy; and said, he used a phrase like Dametas in [Sir P. Sidney's] Arcadia, who said, For wit his Mistresse might be a gyant." Notes of Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden, p. 15, ed. Shakespeare Soc. The sonnet by Drayton, which our author here ridicules, is as follows; "To the Celestiall Numbers. "Vnto the World, to Learning, and to Heauen, Three Nines there are, to euery one a Nine, One Number of the Earth, the other both Diuine; One Woman now makes three odde Numbers euen : Nine Orders first of Angels be in Heauen, Nine Muses doe with Learning still frequent, These with the Gods are euer Resident; Nine Worthy Ones vnto the World were giuen: My Worthy One to these Nine Worthies addeth, And my faire Muse one Muse vnto the Nine, And my good Angell (in my soule Diuine) With one more Order these Niue Orders gladdeth: My Muse, my Worthy, and my Angell, then, Makes euery one of these three Nines a Ten." Idea, Sonnet 18, ed. Svo, n. d. If Gella's beauty be examined, She hath a dull dead eye, a saddle nose, Yet she with these additions is no more IN SYLLAM. XXVII. Sylla is often challeng'd to the field, IN SYLLAM. XXVIII. Who dares affirm that Sylla dares §§ not fight? When I dare swear he dares adventure more *Tenth Worthy] So eds. B, C.-Ed. A "tenth worthlie."-MS. "ten worthies." + Which] So eds.-MS. "That." An] So eds. A, B ; and MS.-Ed. C "And." § cut] So MS.-Eds. "out." Il perfum'd] So eds. A, C; and MS.-Ed. B "perfund." Thot] So eds.-MS. "sweete." ** like] So ed. A, and MS.-Eds. B, C, "as." tt then he doth this] So eds. B, C.-Ed. A "when doth he his."-MS. "he doth all this.' " # yield] So eds.-MS. "make." §§ dares] So MS.-Eds. "dare" (but compare the last line of this Ep.). swear] So eds.-MS. "say." Than the most valiant and all-daring* wight t He that dares touch the most unwholesome whore That ever was retir'd into the spittle, And dares court § wenches standing at a door (The portion of his wit being passing little); He that dares give his dearest friends offences, Which other valiant fools do fear to do, And, when a fever doth confound his senses, Dares eat raw beef, and drink strong wine thereto; He that dares take tobacco on the stage, T Dares dance in Paul's,** and in this formal age IN HEYWODUM. XXIX. * valiant and all-daring] So MS.-Ed. A "braue, most all daring."-Eds. B, C, "braue and all-daring." twight] So eds.-MS. "knight." dares] So Eds. B, C; and MS.-Ed. A "dare." § And dares court, &c.] MS. omits this and the next line. Dares] So MS.-Eds. "Dare." He that dares take tobacco on the stage] Probably most readers are aware that it was formerly the custom of gallants to smoke tobacco on the stage, during the performance, either lying on the rushes, or sitting upon hired stools. ** Paul's] So eds. B, C.-Ed. A, and MS. "Powles." tt say and do] So eds.-MS. "doe and say." It that did in epigrams] So eds. B, C; and MS.-Ed. A "which in epigrams did."-The Epigrams of John Heywood are well known.-An allusion to this epigram of Davies occurs in Sir John Harington's Metamorphosis of Ajax, 1596; "This Haywood for his proverbs and epigrams is not yet put down by any of our country, though one [Marginal note, M. Davies] doth indeed come near him, that graces him the more in saying he puts him down." p. 41, ed. 1814. (In the same work we find, "But, as my good friend M. Davies said of his epigrams, that they were made, like doublets in Birchinlane, for every one whom they will serve," &c., p. 133.) So too in Bastard's Chrestoleros, &c., 1598; "Heywood goes downe, saith Dauis, sikerly; "Ad Johannem Dauis. "If witt may make a poet, as I gesse, Which have been spoken many an hundred § Brunus, which deems § himself a fair sweet time; The man that keeps the elephant hath one, the poets Dacus §§ number'd is. youth, Is nine and thirty years of age at least; At Trollop's, by Saint Clement's Church, in ++ pawn. IN PRISCUM. XXXI. When Priscus, rais'd from low to high estate, Rode through the street in pompous jollity, The goate doth hunt the grasse, the wolfe the goat, The lyon hunts the wolfe, by proofe we see. Heywood sang others downe, but thy sweete note, Dauis, hath sang him downe, and I would thee. Then be not mou'de, nor count it such a sinn, To will in thee what thou hast donn in him." Id. Lib. iii. Ep. 3. Compare also Freeman's Rubbe and a great Cast, 1614; "Heywood wrote Epigrams, so did Dauis; Reader, thou doubst [sic] vtrum horum mauis: But vnto mine, whose vaine is no better, Thou wilt not subscribe Religetur [sic], ametur." Sec. Part, Ep. 100. hose] i. e. breeches. In Dacum] See note on Epigram XLV. I could he never] So eds.-MS. "never could hee." § many an hundred] So eds. B, C.-Ed. A "many a," &c.-MS. " many thousand." Il wonders] So eds.-MS. "wonder." Tagone] So eds. B, C; and MS.-Ed. A "agoe." ** curtal's] i. e. horse's (the word means properly-a docked horse). So much may be found in various books concerning Banks and his wonderful horse, that any account of them is unnecessary here. tt which] So eds. B, C; and MS.-Ed. A "with." Amongst] So eds.-MS. "amorge." §§ Dacus] So eds. B, C; and MS.-Not in ed. A. street in] So eds.-MS. "streetes with." IN SEPTIMIUM. XXXV. Septimius* lives, and is like garlic seen, For though his head be white, his blade is green. This old mad colt deserves a martyr's praise, OF TOBACCO. XXXVI. Homer of Moly and Nepenthe sings; Heart's grief expels, and doth the wit ¶ refine. Moly is not so sovereign for a wound, [which] Ed. A "with" (a manifest mistake for "which").-Eds. B, C, "most."-MS. "that.” ¶ wit] So MS.-Eds. "wits." ** subtle] So MS.-Eds. "substantiall." ++ down] So eds.-MS. "up." # which] So eds.-MS. "that." §§ digesteth] So eds.-MS. "resisteth." which] So eds.-MS. "that." ¶¶ mists] So eds.-MS. "mist." *** which... rarify] So eds.-MS. "that... ratiffie." ttt humour which] So eds.-MS. "humors that." The wasting hectic, &c.] In MS. this quatrain stands as the last but two of the epigram. IN CRASSUM. XXXVII. Crassus his lies are no §§ pernicious lies, That six-score arches can it scarce sustain ; * vile] So MS. (where it is spelt "vild:' see note, p. 68). Not in eds. ↑ Which by Sir Thomas More, &c.] The allusion is to the following Epigramma of Sir T. More; "Medicinæ ad tollendos fatores anhelitus, provenientes a cibis quibusdam." "Sectile ne tetros porrum tibi spiret odores, Hoc facile efficient allia mansa tibi. that IN PHILONEM. XXXVIII. Philo, the lawyer, and the ‡‡ fortune-teller, Then comes a cutpurse ready with a +++ knife, And, listening to the song, heed §§§ not each other; There by the serjeant stands the debitor,|||||| And doth no more mistrust him than ¶¶¶ his brother: * As] So MS.-Eds. "That." year] So eds.-MS. "day." pound: these] So eds.-MS. "pounds, yea." § mo] i. e. more. recited] So eds.-MS. "reported." That] So eds.-MS. "As." ** 'tis] So eds.-MS. "its." tt his] So eds.-MS. "those." It the lawyer, and the] So eds.-MS. "the gentleman, the." §§ midwife] So eds.-MS. "widdow." chose] So cds.-MS. "close." ¶¶ stands] So eds.-MS. "comes." *** stay] So eds. -MS. "stayes." ttt a] So eds.-MS. "his." 1 presses] So MS.-Eds. "passeth." §§§ listening... heed] So eds. B, C.-Ed. A "harkning mark"; and so MS., except that it has "markes." debitor] So eds. B, C.-Ed. A, and MS. "debtor poore." ¶¶¶ than] So eds.-Not in MS. IN FUSCUM. XXXIX. Fuscus is free, and ‡ hath the world at will; ** * This] So MS.-Eds. "Thus." thearers] So eds.-MS. "eares." ↑ Fuscus is free, and] So eds.-MS. "Fustus in free aide." § which, turning] So eds.-MS. "that turneth." goes] So eds.-MS. "goeth." ¶ Gill's] Some ordinary. Ed. A, and MS. "Gilles."Eds. B, C, "Gyls." ** Then sees a] So eds. B, C.-Ed. A "Then sees he a." -MS. "Hee seeth." tt dines; then sees] So eds. A, B.-Ed. C "dines, and sces."-MS. "dyneth and seeth." It sups, and goes] So eds.-MS. "suppeth and goeth." §§ Thus. . . . runs] So eds.-MS. “So... runneth." Save] So eds.-MS. "But." ¶¶ Afer] So eds. B, C; and MS.-Ed. A "after." *** flying] So ed. A, and MS.-Eds. B, C, "newest." ttt ever] So MS.-Eds. "often." 111 how Groningen] Eds. "how Gronigen."-MS. "that Groyninge." §§§ taken in] i. e. taken (conquered). |