For no buffe-jerkin hath beene oftner worne,

Nor hath more scrapings or more dressings borne.

IN LIBRUM. 9.

Liber doth vaunt how chastly he hath liu'd,

Since he hath bin seuen yeares in towne, and more,2
For that he sweares he hath four onely swiude ;3
A maid, a wife, a widdow, and a whore :

Then, Liber, thou hast swiude all women-kinde,
For a fifth sort, I know thou canst not finde.

IN MEDONTEM. IO.

Great captaine Maedon weares a chaine of gold,
Which at fiue hundred crownes is valued;
For that it was his grand sire's chaine of old,
When great King Henry, Bulloigne conquerèd.
And weare it Mædon, for it may ensue,
That thou, by vertue of this 4 massie chaine,
A stronger towne than Bulloigne maist subdue,
If wise men's sawes be not reputed vaine;

2 MS. "Knowne this towne 7 years." Isham " he hath beene in

towne 7 yeeres."

G.

3Swiude' from Isham: other editions

+ MS. "wearing of that." D.

G.

For what said Philip king of Macedon?
There is no castle so well fortified,

But if an asse laden with gold comes on,

The guard will stoope, and gates flye open wide.

Gella, if thou dost loue thy selfe, take heed,

Lest thou my rimes 5 unto thy louer read;

For straight thou grin'st, and then thy louer seeth

Thy canker-eaten gums and rotten teeth.

Quintus his wit 6 infused into his braine,
Mislikes the place, and fled into his feet;
And there it wandered up and downe the street,
Dabled in the dirt, and soaked in the raine:
Doubtlesse his wit intends not to aspire,

Which leaues his head, to travell in the mire.

The Puritan Severus oft doth read

This text, that doth pronounce vain speech a sin,—

MS. "lynes." D.

6

= Quintus's wit. G.

7 Mislikt? G.

8 Isham wanders.' G.

"That thing defiles a man, that doth proceed,
From out the mouth, not that which enters in."
Hence it is, that we seldome heare him sweare :
And thereof as a Pharisie he vaunts;

But he devours more capons in one1 yeare,
Then would suffice an hundred 2 Protestants.
And sooth, those sectaries are gluttons all,
As well the thred-bare cobler, as the knight;
For those poore slaues which haue not wherewithall,
Feed on the rich, till they devour them quite;
And so, as Pharoe's kine, they eate up clean,

Those that be fat, yet still themselues be lean.

IN LEUCAM. 14.

Leuca, in Presence once, a fart did let;

4

Some laught a little; she refus'd the place;

And mad with shame, did then 5 her gloue forget, Which she return'd to fetch with bashfull grace;

And when she would haue said, "I've lost my gloue,"

My fart (qd. she :) which did more laughter moue.

IN MACRUM. 15.

Thou canst not speake yet, Macer, for to speake,
Is to distinguish sounds significant :

Thou with harsh noise the ayre dost rudely breake;
But what thou utterest common sence doth want,-
Halfe English words, with fustian termes among
Much like the burthen of a Northerne song.

IN FASTUM.7 16.

"That youth," saith Faustus, "hath a lyon seene, Who from a dicing-house comes money-lesse":

Mr. Dyce says here "something has dropt out," the line being a foot short, I have supplied I've lost.' G.

7 Sic, but should be Faustum (1st line) and is so given by Mr. Dyce and Isham. G.

But when he lost his haire, where had he beene?

I doubt me he had seene a Lyonesse ?

IN COSMUM. 17.

Cosmus hath more discoursing in his head

Then Ioue, when Pallas issued from his braine
And still he strives to be deliveréd

Of all his thoughts at once, but all in vaine;
For, as we see at all the play-house doores,
When ended is the play, the dance, and song,
A thousand townesmen, gentlemen, and whores,
Porters and serving-men, together throng,-
So thoughts of drinking, thriuing, wenching, warre,
And borrowing money, raging, in his mind;
To issue all at once so forward are,

As none at all can perfect passage find.

IN FLACCUM. 18.

The false knave Flaccus once a bribe I gaue :
The more foole I to bribe so false a knaue :
But he gaue back my bribe; the more foole he,
That for my folly did not cousen me.

MS. "ranging." G.