When it shall grinde thy grating gall for shame, A pining gourmand, an imperious slave, 96 Albee such mayne extort" scorns to be pent He leakes and sinkes, and breaketh when he list. May pleasure Fridoline for treble price: And for a present chapman is assign'd, The cut-throte wretch for their compacted gaine Buyes all for but one quarter of the mayne"; Whiles, if he chance to breake his deare-bought day, And forfait, for default of due repay, His late intangled lands; then, Fridoline, 94 A hors-leech, barren womb, and gaping grave. "The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, Give. There are three things that are never satisfied: yea, four things say not, It is enough :-The grave, and the barren womb &c." Prov. xxx. 15, 16. " Unlesse some base hedge-creeping COLLYBIST. Our author uses this word when speaking of Christ's driving the money-changers out of the Temple." See now, how his eyes sparkle with holy anger, and dart forth beams of indignation in the faces of these guilty Collybists!" Works, vol. ii. p. 458. The word is from the Greek Koλλußins, a Money-changer, Banker, &c. If Mammon selfe should ever live with men, SATIRE VI 100. Quid placet ergo? 101 I WOTE not how the world's degenerate "", 102 105 Tyr'd 1 with pin'd ruffles, and fans, and partlet-strips 103, 100 In this Satire our author appears to have had both the First Ode and the First Satire of Horace in view. 101 I wote not how the world's degenerate, - partlet-strips. Juv. Sat. x. E. Johnson's definition of partlet, after Hanmer, is "A name given to a hen; the original signification being a ruff or band, or covering for the neck": and, in illustration, he quotes this line of our author. Pieces of steel or whalebone, worn by women to strengthen their stays. 105 verding ales Or Fardingales-" A whale-bone circle that ladies formerly wore on their hips, and upon which they ty'd their petticoats." Phillips's New World of Words. 106 cot-queene "A man that is too busy in meddling with women's affairs". Phillips's New World of Words. Is't not a shame to see each homely groome ΠΟ Each muck-worme will be rich with lawlesse gaine, 113 And his dim eyes see nought but death and drere 11. 107 Sit perched in an idle chariot-roome. Mr. Warton has adduced some very curious anecdotes of coaches; which had, by this time, got into common use. They were introduced, I believe, about 1564. É. 110 And gropes for THEEVES in every darker shade. The Oxford Editor, ridiculously enough, has converted this word into th' eves. 111 pide-or pied, spotted, speckled. 112 Now doth he inly scorne his Kendall-Greene. 113 See Statute of Rich. II. an. 12. A. D. 1389. E. -patch't cockers I know not what these mean. 114 - fetleth-prepareth for, or enters upon. The word is still used in the midland counties to signify adjusting, preparing, &c. 117 118 Some drunken Rimer thinks his time well spent, fleshed-initiated, introduced. 119 He sends forth thraves of ballads to the sale. Supposed to have been levelled at Elderton, a celebrated drunken ballad W. writer. An old black-letter quarto, translated from the Spanish into English about 1590: and more than once alluded to in the satirical productions of the time. W. 121 Or WHET-STONE LEASINGS of old Maundevile i. e. with his amusing and interesting fabrications. 122 Of the bird Ruc that beares an elephant. -"in eâdem ipsâ orbis parte, in quâ monstrosissimus ales RUC elephantum integrum unguibus suis rapiens deglutiendum."-Mundus Alter et Idem. See p. 142 of this vol. The author of the English Translation of this piece adds in a note, "This bird's picture is to be seen in the largest Maps of the World, with an Elephant in his pounces." See a large account of this fabulous creature Lib. i. c. 10. of the same work, at p. 153 of this vol. The author mentions it again, p. 238, in his Censure of Travel; where there occurs a similar reprehension of the marvellous stories of travellers with that in this Satire. 123 Of head-lesse men "We can tell.... of those headless eastern people, that have their eyes in their breast; a mis-conceit arising from their fashion of attire which I have sometimes seen". See Censure of Travel, p. 238 of this vol. Now are they dung-hill cocks, that have not seene His land morgag'd, he sea beat in the way, To know much, and to thinke we nothing know; SATIRE VII 139. POMH PYMH. WHO says these Romish pageants bene too hy A hundreth gamesters' shifts or landlords' wrongs, 125 And now he plyes the newes-full Grashopper. The Exchange, having the Grashopper as a vane; the crest of Sir Thomas Gresham, its founder. Our author appears from his "Specialities" to have been warmly attached to the academic life which he here praises. Speaking of his election as a Fellow of Emanuel College, he says-" I was with a cheerful unanimity chosen into that Society; which if it had any equals, I dare say had none beyond it for good order, studious carriage, strict government, austere piety: in which I spent six or seven years more with such contentment, as the rest of my life hath in vain striven to yield." 129 At our low sayle This expression was proverbial. In "The Return from Parnassus", Act iv. Sc. 5. we find Scholars must frame to live at a low sayle. E. 130 Compare this Satire with Mundus Alter et Idem, Lib. iii. c. 8, 9. 131 wist-knows. 132 Perdy-Fr. par Dieu, an old oath. |