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 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. I tell of fourching, vouchers, and counterpleas, 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, 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, Yet she with these additions is no more IN SYLLAM. XXVII. Sylla is often challeng'd to the field, Sylla, if none but beggars valiant were, 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+ 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, * 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 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. Which have been spoken many an hundred § Brunus, which deems § himself a fair || sweet 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, Moly, the gods' most sovereign herb divine, Nepenthe, Helen's § drink, which || gladness brings, Heart's grief expels, and doth the wit ¶ refine. Moly is not so sovereign for a wound, *** 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, Yet that vile medicine it doth far excel, For this is thought a gentleman-like smell. sell! My customers would § give me coin with thanks; 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 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, Spiritus at si post etiam gravis allia restat, ↑ 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, §§ 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; 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). |