No. Page 55 65 57 66 58 67 59 67 60 69 61 71 62 73 The Sun referred to here was probably that on Fish Street Hill; there was a later Sun behind the Royal Exchange, built after the Great Fire. The Dog was a favourite haunt of Jonson's, and Pepys was a later patron. From the connection in which he mentions it Mr. Wheatley conjectures it to have been near Whitehall and Westminster Hall. There was a Triple Tun-or at least a Three Tuns-in Newgate Street and another in Seething Lane, but which of the two was Jonson and Herrick's tavern I cannot ascertain. Wilson-John Wilson, lute-player and composer, a doctor of music at Oxford, 1644, and professor there in 1656. He was "the best at the lute in all England," says Anthony à Wood, and he enjoyed the favour of Charles II. Gotiere-Mr. Herbert Horne takes this to be Jacques Gouter or Gaultier, a lutinist also, an etched portrait of whom is to be seen in the Print Room of the British Museum. The first two lines are a translation of the opening question of Horace, Car. iii. 25. "The world had all one nose"-this, of course, is a play on Ovid's patronymic Naso, and Dr. Grosart also detects a reference to the amorous disposition supposed to be indicated by a long Pap-sap; retorted-tossed wildly back nose. (Lat. retortus). It was for his friend Sir Clipseby's wedding in 1625 that Herrick wrote his exquisite "Nuptial Song," which takes high place among English epithalamia. Instant (Lat. instans)—present. The mystic fan was borne in the Eleusinian procession. Mr. E. K. Chambers, in his edition of Vaughan, locates the Globe in Southwark, but there was also a Globe in Fleet Street which achieved fame in the No. Page 63 76 64 78 T next century as the meeting-place of Goldsmith's Wednesday Club. Gordon, the fattest member of the club, was renowned for his singing of "Nottingham Ale" (see pp. 118, 279). Cymbeline and Lud-statues of these ancient, and probably mythical, British kings occupied niches of old Ludgate. "him That made his horse a senator." The steed thus honoured was Incitatus, belonging to Caligula; it had an ivory manger and drank wine out of a golden pail. To him that like fire broke forth, etc.-Julius Cæsar. From The Man's the Master, printed 1669. Pepys went to see this play in March, 1668, and thought little of it: "most of the mirth was sorry, poor stuffe, of eating of sack posset and slabbering themselves, and mirth fit for clowns." There are many variations in the readings of "Whether these Lines do please, or give offence, The Poet is for that in no suspense; For 'tis all one a hundred years hence." I have taken my text from the original source of the song-The Triumphs of London, Performed on Friday, Octob. 29, 1675 for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable, and truly Noble Pattern of Prudence and Loyalty, Sir Joseph Sheldon, Kt, Lord Mayor of the City of London. . . . All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. Designed and No. Page 66 81 Composed, By Tho. Jordan, Gent. This particular song is thus introduced "His Lordship and the Guests being all seated, the City Musick begin to touch their Instruments with very artful fingers, and after a Lesson being played, and their Ears as well feasted as their Mouths; an acute person, with a good voice, good humour, and audible utterance (the better to provoke digestion) sings this New Droll." I have added the word "est," metrically necessary but lacking in all versions, to line 4 of verse 4, and I have also to confess to tampering with the purity of the text in another line, out of respect for the purity of the present age. Theorbo-a stringed instrument much in favour in the seventeenth century, differing from a lute, which it otherwise resembled, in having two necks; bit-wench ("Oh, she's a delicate Bit for him that can get her" Shadwell's Miser, Act. i. Sc. 1); hogo-a high flavour or smell, from Fr. haut goût; Your most Christian Mounsieur-Louis XIV. Text from Merry Drollery Compleat, 1670. This was a very popular song in Charles II's time, and is twice mentioned in Shadwell's plays. Thus Timothy Squeeze in the Miser: "We can be merry as the best of you-we can i̇' faith--and sing A boat, a boat, or Here's a health to his Majesty with a fa la la lero; and roar gallantly." Text from Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, edited by W. C. Hazlitt, 1870, as is also that of No. 68. Pug-wench or mistress, e.g. in one of the ballads printed with Heywood's Rape of Lucrece "Arise, arise, my Juggy, my Puggy, Arise, get up, my dear; The weather is cold, it blows, it snows; Oh, let me be lodged here." 69,70,71 86-88 From the Songs and Poems, third edition, 1668, of "the great song-maker," as Pepys calls No. Page Brome. Phillips' eulogy in Theatrum Poetarum lacks nothing in appreciation ". . . among the sons of Mirth and Bacchus, to whom his sack-inspired songs have been so often sung to the sprightly violon, his name cannot choose but be immortal; and in this respect he may well be styled the English Anacreon." From Nicholas Hookes' Amanda, a Sacrifice to an unknown Goddesse; or, a Free-will Offering of a loving Heart to a Sweet-heart. London. 1653. An imitation of Ode xix. of Anacreon. Moore thus translates an epitaph by Hippolytus Capilupus of the same inspiration "While life was mine, the little hour In drinking still unvaried flew; As ocean quaffs the rivers up, Or flushing sun inhales the sea; And Bacchus was outdone by me!" An imitation of Anacreon, Ode xviii.; Oldham's longer poem inspired by the same Ode will be found on p. 105, As Nestor used of old "Old Nestor, notwithstanding all the Noyse and Clamour made by the Tumult, would not breake his draught. His Cup was compared to Achilles his Shield; as the one never enter'd the field, nor ingaged his person without his Targe to guard his life-so the other never heated his body in any skirmish, without his bowle to quench his thirst."-Heywood's Philocothonista, p. 11. Maestrick-Maestricht was a much besieged city, but the particular siege referred to here was probably that of 1673; Sir Sidrophel-Lilly the astrologer, first nicknamed thus in Hudibras. Text from Dixon and Bell's Ballads and Songs of the English Peasantry. From the reference No. Page to ale and the names Nolly and Joan, the editors are inclined to consider this song "a lampoon levelled at Cromwell and his wife, whom the Royalist party nicknamed Joan." But, like "There's nae luck aboot the hoose," into which certain commentators have read Jacobite sentiments, it is a good song on its own merits and does not need the extrinsic interest of political allusion. Moreover the ballad, or, at any rate, the original on which it is based, is much older than Cromwell; in 1594 John Danter entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, "for his copie, a ballet intituled 'Jone's ale is new."" In the Roxburghe Ballads is a song, "The Good Fellows' Frolick; or, Kent Street Club," which resembles the present in bringing in a string of tradesmen, with the refrain "The ale that is so brown." 79 97 Text from Sandys' Festive Songs, 1848. 80 98 81 100 Text from Dixon and Bell. In the dales of Craven it was usual at the close of hay-harvest for the farmers to entertain their men at a feast called a churn-supper. This song, in varying forms, was always a feature of the evening. It somewhat resembles No. 81. Text from Merry Drollery Compleat, 1661. The tune was adapted to several old songs, including D'Urfey's "Cold and raw the north did blow." Stingo was strong ale, especially associated with Yorkshire; there is to this day in the Marylebone Road a public-house called the Yorkshire Stingo. To run the ring-equivalent to running a rig, i.e. playing a frolic; 'Twill make him show his golden thumb-will make him fairdealing; there is a proverb that honest millers have golden thumbs. The last line of the song |