IN CINEAM. XXIII.

When Cineas comes amongst his friends in morning,

He slyly looks* who first his cap doth move:
Him he salutes, the rest so grimly scorning,
As if for ever they had lost his love.
I, knowing how it doth the humour fit
Of this fond § gull to be saluted first,
Catch at my cap, but move it not || a whit:
Which he perceiving, seems for** spite to
burst.

But, Cineas, why expect ++ you more of me
Than I of you? I am as good a man,
And better too by many a quality,

For vault, and dance, and fence,‡‡ and rhyme

"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."

111 Of flankers, ravelins, gabions] So eds.-MS. "Of ffranckers, ruvelinges, and gabions.”

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,
Of withernams, essoins, and champarty.
So, neither of us understanding either,**
We part as wise as when++ we came together.

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

Into his ranke (if such discourse you loue):

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. 7,—a portion of the vol. entitled Certain Elegies, &c., ed. 1620. But] So eds.-MS. "And."

**

"

either] So ed. A.-Eds. B, C, 'one an other."-MS. "other."

tt wise as when] So eds.-MS. "wisely as."

It 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. 13, 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 Henuen,
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 cuery one of these three Nines a Ten."
Idea, Sonnet 18, ed. 8vo, n. d.

Making his mistress march with men of war, With title of "Tenth Worthy" "doth her lade. Methinks that gull did use his terms as fit, Which term'd his love "a giant for her wit."

IN GELLAM. XXVI.

If Gella's beauty be examined,

She hath a dull dead eye, a saddle nose,
An ill-shap'd face, with morphew overspread,
And rotten teeth, which she in laughing shows;
Briefly, she is the filthiest wench in town,
Of all that do the art of whoring use:
But when she hath put on her satin gown,
Her cut § lawn apron, and her velvet shoes,
Her green silk stockings, and her petticoat
Of taffeta, with golden fringe around,
And is withal perfum'd with civet hot,¶
Which doth her valiant stinking breath
confound,-

Yet she with these additions is no more
Than a sweet, filthy, fine, ill-favour'd whore.

IN SYLLAM. XXVII.

Sylla is often challeng'd to the field,
To answer, like ** a gentleman, his foes:
But then he doth this only answer yield,―‡‡
That he hath livings and fair lands to lose.

Sylla, if none but beggars valiant were,
The king of Spain would put us all in fear.

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."

|| 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."

It 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.).

I swear] So eds.-MS. "say."

Than the most valiant and all-daring* wight+
That ever arms with resolution bore;

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 man a whore at noon-day through the street,

Dares dance in Paul's,** and in this formal age Dares say and do ++ whatever is unmeet;

Whom fear of shame could never yet affright, Who dares affirm that Sylla dares not fight?

IN HEYWODUM. XXIX.

Heywood, that did in epigrams ‡‡ excel,
Is now put down since my light Muse arose;

* 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;
And downe he goes, I can it not deny:
But were I happy, did not fortune frowne,
Were I in heart, I would sing Dauy downe."
Lib. ii. Ep. 15.

"Ad Johannem Douis. "If witt may make a poet, as I gesse, Heywood with auncient poets may I [sic] compare. But thou in word and deed hast made him lesse

In his owne wit: hauing yet learning spare.

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: Bnt 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."

"

I 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. "Amonge."

§§ Darus] So eds. B, C; and MS.-Not in ed. A. street in] Bo eds.-MS. "streetes with."

IN FRANCUM. XXXIII.

When Francus comes to solace with his whore, He sends for rods, and strips himself stark naked;

For his lust sleeps, and will not rise before,
By whipping of the wench, it be awaked.§§
I envy him not, but wish I had the power
To make myself his wench but one half-hour.

Moly, the gods' most sovereign herb divine, Nepenthe, Helen's § drink, which || gladness brings,

Heart's grief expels, and doth the wit ¶ refine.
But this our age another world hath found,
From whence an herb of heavenly power is
brought;

Moly is not so sovereign for a wound,
Nor hath Nepenthe so great wonders wrought.
It is tobacco, whose sweet subtle ** fume
The hellish torment of the teeth doth ease,
By drawing down ++ and drying up the rheum,
The mother and the nurse of each disease;
It is tobacco, which ‡‡ doth cold expel,
And clears th' obstructions of the arteries,
And surfeits threatening death digesteth §§ well,
Decocting all the stomach's crudities;
It is tobacco, which hath power to clarify
The cloudy mists ¶¶ before dim eyes appearing;
It is tobacco, which hath power to rarify

***

The thick gross humour which +++ doth stop the hearing;

The wasting hectic,‡‡‡ and the quartan fever, Which doth of physic make a mockery,

Septimius] So ed. B.-Ed. A, and MS. "Septimus.' -Ed. C "Septinius."

this] So eds.-MS. "the."

Nepenthe] So eds.-MS. (both here and afterwards in this Ep.) "Nepenthen."

§ Helen's] Ed. A "Hekens."-Eds. B, C, "Hauens." -MS. "helevs."

"Not that Nepenthes, which the wife of Thone

In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena," &c.

Milton's Comus, v. 675.

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."

tt down] So eds. -MS. "up."

It 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."

1 The wasting hectic, &c.] In MS. this quatrain stands as the last but two of the epigram.

The gout it cures, and helps ill breaths for ever,
Whether the cause in teeth or stomach be;
And though ill breaths were by it but con-
founded,

Yet that vile medicine it doth far excel,
Which by Sir Thomas More + hath been pro-
pounded,

For this is thought a gentleman-like smell.
O, that I were one of these mountebanks
Which praise their oils and powders which they

sell!

My customers would § give me coin with thanks;
I for this ware, forsooth,|| a tale would tell:
Yet would I use none of these terms before;
I would but say, that it the pox will ¶ cure;
This **
were enough, without discoursing more,
All our brave gallants in the town t'allure.++

IN CRASSUM. XXXVII.

Crassus his lies ‡‡ are no §§ pernicious lies,
But pleasant fictions, hurtful unto none
But to himself; for no man counts him wise,
To tell for truth that which for false is known.
He swears that Gaunt |||| is three-score miles about,
And that the bridge at Paris on ¶¶¶ the Seine
Is of such thickness, length, and breadth, through-
out,

That six-score arches can it scarce sustain ;
He swears he saw so great a dead man's scull
At Canterbury digg'd out of the ground,

* vile] So MS. (where it is spelt "vild:" see note II, 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,
Protenus a porro fac mihi cepe vores.
Denuo fœtorem si vis depellere cepa,
Hoc facile efficient allia mansa tibi.

Spiritus at si post etiam gravis allia restat,
Aut nibil, aut tantum tollere merda potest."
T. Mori Lucubrationes, &c., p. 261, ed. 1563.
these] So eds.-MS. "if . . . . the."

↑ that....

§ would] So eds. -MS. "should."

forsooth] So eds.-MS. "so faire."

¶ will] So eds.-MS. "would."

** This] So eds. -MS. "It."

++ All our brave gallants in the town t'allure] So eds.

MS. "All our English gallants to alure."

1 Crassus his lies] i. e. Crassus's lies.

$$ no] So MS.-Eds. "not."

Gaunt] i. e. Ghent. So eds. B, C; and MS.-Ed. A "Caunt."

¶¶ at Paris on] So eds.-MS. "in Paris ouer."

IN PHILONEM. XXXVIII.

Philo, the lawyer, and the ‡‡ fortune-teller,
The school-master, the midwife, §§ and the bawd,
The conjurer, the buyer and the seller
Of painting which with breathing will be thaw'd,
Doth practise physic; and his credit grows,
As doth the ballad-singer's auditory,
Which hath at Temple-Bar his standing chose,||||
And to the vulgar sings an ale-house story:
First stands ¶¶ a porter; then an oyster-wife
Doth stint her cry, and stay *** her steps to hear

§§ midwife] So eds.-MS. "widdow."

chose] So eds.-MS. "close."

¶¶ stands] So eds.-MS. "comes."

*** stay] So eds.-MS. "stayes."

ttt a] So eds.-MS. "his."

Itt 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.

*

This Orpheus to such hearers + giveth music, And Philo to such patients giveth physic.

IN FUSCUM. XXXIX.

Fuscus is free, and hath the world at will;
Yet, in the course of life that he doth lead,
He's like a horse which, turning § round a mill,
Doth always in the self same circle tread :
First, he doth rise at ten; and at eleven
He goes to Gill's,¶ where he doth eat till one;
Then sees a ** play till six; and sups at seven;
And, after supper, straight to bed is gone;
And there till ten next day he doth remain ;
And then he dines; then sees ++ a comedy;
And then he sups, and goes ‡‡ to bed again :
Thus round he runs §§ without variety,

Save that sometimes he comes not to the play,

But falls into a whore-house by the way.

§ which, turning] So eds.-MS. "that turneth."

Il 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 sees."-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. "the Groyninge."

§§§ taken in] i. e. taken (conquered).