Pimlico seems to have been a place near Hoxton famous for its ales and custards; cf. Mayne's _City Match_, II. 6.-- "Nay, captain, we have brought you A gentleman of valour, who has been In Moorfields often: marry it has been To squire his sisters and demolish custards At Pimlico." There is an unique tract entitled "Pimlyco or Runne Red cap, 'tis a mad world at Hoggesden," 1609. [100] I cannot find that "bob" is used as a technical term in falconry. Mr. Fleay suggests that a "bob'd hawke" merely means a "hawk cheated of her prey." I rather think the meaning is a "hawk beaten or repulsed by her prey." [101] From "A Kalendar of the English Church," p. 45 (Rivingtons: n.d., but 1865), one learns that "Marriage is restrained by Law at the following times unless with a License or Dispensation from the Bishop of the Diocese, his Chancellor, or Commissary, viz., from Advent Sunday until eight days after the Epiphany; from Septuagesima until eight days after Easter; and from the Monday in Rogation week until Trinity Sunday." [102] I venture to insert the word "poet": both sense and metre are defective without it. [103] In the MS. "thee" is corrected into "you." [104] Some words have been cut away. [105] MS. throng. [106] "_Thu_. And here she comes, I feare me"--crossed out in the MS. [107] Here a line follows in the MS:-- "And verely she is much to blame in it." It is crossed through, and rightly. [108] "Puny" is not uncommonly spelt "puisne" (Fr. puisné) in old authors. [109] The metre requires "unman[ner]ly." [110] MS. have. [111] MS. puisants. [112] The "Artillery Garden" was situated in Finsbury Fields, where also was the place of exercise for the City Trained Bands. In the "Antiquarian Repertory" (ed. 1807), i. 251-270, the reader will find an interesting account of the Trained Bands and the Artillery Company. Old writers are fond of sneering at the City warriors. The following passage is from Shirley's "Witty Fair One," v. 1:--"There's a spruce captain newly crept out of a gentleman-usher and shuffled into a buff jerkin with gold lace, that never saw service beyond Finsbury or the Artillery-Garden, marches wearing a desperate feather in his lady's beaver, while a poor soldier, bred up in the school of war all his life, yet never commenced any degree of commander, wants a piece of brass to discharge a wheaten bullet to his belly." [113] _"Vinum muscatum quod moschi odorem referat, propter dulcedinem_, for the sweetnesse and smell it resembles muske," &c_. Minsheu's _Guide into Tongues_ (apud Dyce's _Glossary_). [114] "Mooncalf" (originally the name for an imperfectly formed foetus) was used as a term of reproach, like dodypol, nincompoop, ninny, dunderhead, &c. [115] _Sc_. trifling fellow, noodle. [116] The blades from Bilboa in Spain were esteem'd as highly as those of Toledo manufacture. [117] MS. two. [118] "Striker" is a cant term for a losel, a wencher.