Part 33

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Dyce conjectures that this was the name of some person who kept an ordinary where gaming was practised. (MS. "for newes.")

So eds. B, C.--Isham copy and ed. A "a seaven."

So MS. with some eccentricities of spelling ("to much one one").--Old eds. "at."

IN CYPRIUM. XXII.

The fine youth Cyprius is more terse and neat Than the new garden of the Old Temple is; And still the newest fashion he doth get, And with the time doth change from that to this; He wears a hat now of the flat-crown block, The treble ruff, long coat, and doublet French: He takes tobacco, and doth wear a lock, And wastes more time in dressing than a wench. Yet this new-fangled youth, made for these times, Doth, above all, praise old George Gascoigne's rhymes. 10

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Shape or fashion; properly the wooden mould on which the crown of a hat is shaped.

So MS.--Old eds. "ruffes."

Love-lock; a lock of hair hanging down the shoulder in the left side. It was usually plaited with ribands.

So MS. and eds. B, C.--Not in Isham copy or ed. A.

Gascoigne's "rhymes" have been edited in two thick volumes by Mr. Carew Hazlitt. He died on 7th October 1577. In Gabriel Harvey's Letter Book (recently edited by Mr. Edward Scott for the Camden Society) there are some elegies on him.

IN CINEAM. XXIII.

When Cineas comes amongst his friends in morning, He slyly looks who first his cap doth move: Him he salutes, the rest so grimly scorning, As if for ever they had lost his love. I, knowing how it doth the humour fit Of this fond gull to be saluted first, Catch at my cap, but move it not a whit: Which he perceiving, seems for spite to burst. But, Cineas, why expect you more of me Than I of you? I am as good a man, 10 And better too by many a quality, For vault, and dance, and fence, and rhyme I can: You keep a whore at your own charge, men tell me; Indeed, friend Cineas, therein you excel me.

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So Isham copy and ed. A.--Eds. B, C "spies."--MS. "notes."

So the MS.--Isham copy and ed. A "Which perceiving he."--Eds. B, C "Which to perceiving he."

The MS. adds--

"You keepe a whore att your charge in towne; Indeede, frend Ceneas, there you put me downe."

IN GALLUM. XXIV.

Gallus hath been this summer-time in Friesland, And now, return'd, he speaks such warlike words, As, if I could their English understand, I fear me they would cut my throat like swords; He talks of counter-scarfs, and casamates, Of parapets, curtains, and palisadoes; Of flankers, ravelins, gabions he prates, And of false-brays, and sallies, and scaladoes. But, to requite such gulling terms as these, With words to my profession I reply; 10 I tell of fourching, vouchers, and counterpleas, Of withernams, essoins, and champarty. So, neither of us understanding either, We part as wise as when we came together.

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Counter-scarps.

Old eds. "Casomates."

Old eds. "Of parapets, of curteneys, and pallizadois."--MS. "Of parapelets, curtens and passadoes."--Cunningham prints "Of curtains, parapets," &c.

"A term in fortification, exactly from the French fausse-braie, which means, say the dictionaries, a counter-breast-work, or, in fact, a mound thrown up to mask some part of the works.

'And made those strange approaches by false-brays, Reduits, half-moons, horn-works, and such close ways.'

B. Jons. Underwoods."--Nares.