Trampling the burse's marble twise a day ", gerers of his time; who, in their rambles about the town, visited the Royal Exchange as mercantile travellers. The Royal Exchange was also frequented by hungry walkers, as well as St. Paul's. Robert Hayman, in his Quodlibets or Epigrams. Lond. 1628. 4to. Epigr. 35. p. 6. has To Sir Pearce Pennilesse. "Though little coyne thy purselesse pockets lyne, " Trampling the burse's marble twise a day. W. The Royal Exchange received the name of Bourse from Sir Thomas Gresham ;and exchanged it for its present name, in 1570, by order of Queen Elizabeth. E. 12 Pansophus now, though all in a cold swatt, The is the reading of the edition of 1599, and the Oxford. 13 The vale of Stand-gate, or the Suter's hill, Or westerne playne, are free from feared ill. Stand-gate vale probably means Stand-gate Street, in Lambeth.-Suter's or Shooter's Hill is well known.-By westerne playne, the site now occupied by St. James's and Hyde Parks was most likely intended. 15 And shouldred angry Skelton's breath-lesse rimes. So Phillips, in the Theatrum Poetarum, p. 115, says of Skelton, "Methinks he hath a miserable loos rambling style, and galloping measure of verse." E. Ere Chrysalus had bar'd the common boxe, With a big-bellyed gallon flagonet ". Of an ebbe Cruce must thirsty Silen sip, Or when old gouty bed-rid Euclio To his officious factor fayre could show His name in margent of some olde cast bill, Whiles hee beleeves, and, looking for the share, Great thanks he gives-but, God him shield and save Onely live long and he is well repayd, And weats his forced cheeks whiles thus he said; Some strong-smeld onion shall stirre his eyes Rather than no salt teares shall then arise. So lookes he like a marble toward rayne, And wrings, and snites 2, and weeps, and wipes againe: 16 Now shalt thou never see the salt beset With a big-bellyed gallon flagonet. See Note 37, on Book ii. Sat. 6. 17 Of an EBBE CRUCE must thirsty Silen sip, That's all forestalled by his upper lip. An ebbe cruce probably means a shallow vessel, the contents of which ebbed a returned against the upper lip, and disappointed the drinker. To peer is, to come just in sight. By peare, our author may mean shrunk in. 19 By THIS strange qualme of liberalitie. This is restored from the first edition; his being that of the other editions, 20 snites a term in Falconry. "A hawk is said to smite or snite, whe she wipes her beak or bill after feeding". See Phillips's New World of Words. 21 sowred-The Oxford editor reads sorrow'd, without authority. 22 That they would now his tedious ghost bereav'n, 23 Save his wrought night-cap, and laune pillow-bere": Or thousand white-wands might me ought availe, I would at last repent me of my rage: 25 Now, beare my wrong, I thine, O righteous age. Would'st thou the tongues, that earst were learned hight”, Whiles neither smoke nor flame discerned bin? pillow-bere-pillow-case. 23 mastick-patch Mastick is a clear and sweet gum, of a dry and binding quality. It appears to have been used for the cure of the tooth-ache. 24 When Beauty was her REUME I soon espide. The meaning probably is, that the desire of being thought beautiful was her disease. Rheuma is explained by Phillips as "a flowing down of humours from the head upon the lower parts.' Puis-ne-Fr. younger, inconsiderable. 25 26 – hight—named, called. 27 Shall it not be a wild-figg in a wall, Do thou disdaine, O over-learned" age! Folly it selfe, and baldnes, may be prais'd 30; (So solemnly kist he his laurell bow "') For this so saucy and foule injurie. over-learned--The Oxford Editor reads ever-learned; probably by an error of the press, but certainly without authority. Folly it selfe, and baldnes, may be pruis'd. An allusion to Erasmus's Moriæ Encomium, and the Encomium Calvitiei, written at the restoration of Learning. Cardan also wrote an Encomium on Nero, the Gout, &c. W. SATIRES.-BOOK VI.-SAT. I. So Labeo weens it my eternall shame To rub my brow three daies, and wake three nights, But would I be a poet if I might, &c. &c. fall 36 Vos ô Pompilius sanguis, carmen reprehendite, quod non Hor. Ars. Poct. 291. E. which, OUT-SOUGHT, I take up THALES' JOY, save for fore-thought, How it shall please ech ALE-KNIGHT's censuring eye. Out-sought means discovered.-By Thales' joy the Satirist seems to refer to a say ing of Thales, the Milesian, the founder of the Ionic Sect, and the first of the Seven Wise Men of Greece. He boasted that he had to thank his fortune princiPally for three things-Πρῶτον μὲν ἄνθρωπος ἐγενόμην, καὶ ἐ θηρίον· εἶτα, ὅτι ἀνὴρ, καὶ & γυνὴ· τρίτον, ὅτι Ελλην, καὶ ἐ Βάρβαρος. See his Life in Diog. Laert. Ale-knight means the oracle of the tavern. 34 Whiles thred-bare Martiall turnes his merry note, To beg of Rufus a cast winter-cote. Alluding to the 57th Epigram of the VIth Book of Martial. E. 36 Whiles hungry Marot leapeth at a beane, And dyeth like a starv'd Cappucien. Clement Marot, the best French poet of his time. Toward the close of his life he fell into disgrace, as a warm friend to the Reformed Religion: having, as Beza E. confesses, contracted at the Court of France such loose habits of life, as even Protestantism itself could never correct. Go, Ariost, and gape for what may fall, &c. &c. E. The allusion is evidently to Hippolito, Cardinal of Este; to whose court Ariosto's reputation for wit had procured him favourable access. |