"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 one 1

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;

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;

8

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.

SMS. "ranging." G.

Thou doggèd Cineas, hated like a dogge,
For still thou grumblest like a masty9 dogge,
Compar❜st thyself to nothing but a dogge;
Thou saith1 thou art as weary as a dogge,
As angry, sicke, and hungry as a dogge,
As dull and melancholly as a dogge,
As lazy, sleepy,2 idle as a dogge :

But why dost thou compare thee to a dogge
In that, for which all men despise a dogge?
I will compare thee better to a dogge:
Thou art as faire and comely as a dogge,
Thou art as true and honest as a dogge,
Thou art as kind and liberall as a dogge,
Thou art as wise and valiant as a dogge.
But Cineas, I have [often]3 heard thee tell,
Thou art as like thy father as may be ;

'Tis like enough; and faith I like it well;
But I am glad thou art not like to me.

9 Mastiff. D. [This is an error. A'mastiff' is not a grumbling dog, and 'masty' is fatted, and here answers apparently to the over-fed vicious pet. See Maste, Prompt. Parv. & p. 151 (Way's

=

ed.) G. 1 Isham'saist.' G.

?' And as' not in Isham. and being superfluous left out. G. 3 Supplied from MS. by Mr. Dyce. Isham 'oft.' G.

Old Holinshed, our famous Chronicler,

With morall rules; and policy collects

Out of all actions done these fourscore yeare ;5
Accounts the times of euery old 6 event,

Not from Christ's birth, nor from the Prince's raigne,

But from some other famous accident,

Which in mens generall notice doth remaine,-
The siege of Bulloigne and the Plaguy Sweat,
The going to St. Quintin's and New-haven,
The rising in the North, the Frost so great

That cart-wheeles' prints on Thamis face were graven,7
The fall of money, and burning of Paul's steeple ;
The blazing starre, and Spaniard's ouerthrow:

By these events, notorious to the people,

He measures times, and things forepast doth show:

* MS. 'Geron, his.' D. Isham 'Geron whose.' G.

5 Isham corrects the misprint 'yeares,' and of 'time' in next line. G. 6 Isham'odde.' G.

7 The reading in our text, and in all the editions, including Isham, is seene': but above from MS, as rhyming with Newhaven seems preferable. Newhaven was formerly called Havre Grace. All the date-events are commonplaces of History. G.