17 SATIRE III. THE curteous citizen bad me to his feast, "I should but trouble you;-pardon me, if you may:" Oh, Cleopatricall"! what wanteth there For curious cost, and wondrous choise of cheare? Th' Athenian's goate; quaile, Iolan's cheere; Hadst thou such cheer? wert thou ever ther before? For whom he meanes to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest. overly-slight. 18 For had I mayden'd it i. e. Acted the modest maiden. 19 Two words for money, DARBISHIRIAN WISE. Qu. Is this a satire against the men of Derbyshire, or against some known character of our author's time? 20 for an importune guest. i. e. One who will not become a guest without much importunity. Oh, Cleopatricall!-luxurious as Cleopatra. "And chesnuts faire, for Amarillis' tooth. By the name of Amarillis, Spenser, in "Colin Clout's come home again," distinguishes Lady Strange: to whom also he dedicates "The Teares of the Muses." See Todd's Life of Spenser, p. 76. SATIRE IV. WERE yesterday Polemon's Natals kept, But he must needes his posts with blood embrew; But he must cut his glove to shew his pride, And, that men mought some Burgesse him repute, 23 SATIRE V. FIE on all curtesie, and unruly winds, Two onely foes that faire disguisement finds. morkin-a beast that dies by accident or sickness. 24 Who ever gives a pair of velvet shooes To th' Holy Rood The velvet shoes were for the feet of Christ on the Cross, or of one of the attendant figures. W. 25 Or in HIS lasting tombe of plated brasse. The edition of 1602, followed by the Oxford, reads the: but his is the reading the first edition. 26 Strange curse! but fit for such a fickle age, He answers my untimely curtesies. His bonnet vail'd", ere ever he could thinke, The sportfull wind, to mocke the Headlesse man, And straight it to a deeper ditch hath blowne; I lookt, and laught; and much I marvailed, And me bethought, that when it first begon, 30 'Twas some shroud Autumne that so bar'd the bone 31. Is't not sweete pride, when men their crownes must shade, Or floor-strowd locks from off the barber's sheares? abron-Qu. auburn ? 27 His bonnet vail'd i. e. pulled off. See Reed's Shakespeare, Vol. VII. p. 235. 28 periwinke—i, e. periwig: about this time first become an article of dress. In Book IV. Sat. 6. it is made one of the characteristics of a fop And weare curl'd periwigs. " Tosses apace his pitch'd ROGERIAN. It seems to have been a favourite practice of periwig makers, ever since the introduction of this excrementitious ornament of the head, to distinguish its various forms by different proper names. The Tituses, and Brutuses, and Georges of the present day form the last of this noble race! 30 There must my YONKER fetch his waxen crowne. Yonker means a novice; a lusty young man; or a young, inexperienced man, easily deceived. See Reed's Shakespeare, Vol. II. p. 358. 31 'Twas some SHROUD autumne that so bar'd the bone. Shroud, for shrewd; bitter, severe. So Shakespeare That have endur'd SHREWD days and nights with us. gree-for agree. AS YOU LIKE IT. Act V. Sc. 4. SATIRE VI WHEN Gullion di'd (who knows not Gullion ?) And downe he dips his chops deepe in the myre, They stand, and wait, and pray for that good houre; Once intertaine the ghost of Gullian.. Drinke on drie soule, and pledge sir Gullion: Drinke to all healths, but drinke not to thine owne. Desunt nonnulla. 33 35 36 SATIRE VII. SEEST thou how gayly my yong maister goes, caravell-boat, a small vessel. praiers-as two syllables. pranks-adjusts. See Todd's Spenser, Vol. II. p.117. "In sooth I saw him sit with Duke Humfray, &c. &c. Mr. Steevens says that he never yet met with a satisfactory explanation of the cant phrase of dining with Duke Humphrey. "It appears, however," he adds, "from a satirical pamphlet called The Gul's Horn-booke, 1609, written by T. Deckar, that, in the ancient church of St. Paul, one of the aisles was called Duke Humphrey's Walk; in which those, who had no means of procuring a dinner, affected Many good welcoms, and much Gratis cheere, Than stake his twelve-pence to a meaner host. As if he ment to weare a native cord, If chaunce his Fates should him that bane afford. Close noched is his beard both lip and chin; to loiter. Deckar concludes his fourth chapter thus: "By this, I imagine, you have walked your bellyful, and thereupon being weary (which is rather, I believe) being most gentleman-like hungry, it is fit that as I brought you unto the duke, so (because he followes the fashion of great men in keeping no house, and that therefore you must go seeke your dinner,) suffer me to take you by the hand and leade you into an ordinary.' The title of this chapter is, 'How a gallant should behave himself in Powles Walkes'." Mr. Steevens then quotes this passage of Hall as confirming the interpretation here given. See his Note on Richard III. Act iv. Scene 4. He pretends to have been at the conquest of Cales, where the nuns had worked his bonnet. W. Amazon-Accented on the second syllable. E. |