[87] _Untrimmed locks_ are locks dishevelled or undressed. _Trim_, in the language of the times, was frequently used for dress. So in Massinger's "Emperor of the East," act ii. sc. 1-- "Our Eastern queens, at their full height bow to thee, And are, in their best _trim_, thy foils and shadows." See also Mr Steevens's note on "King John," act iii. sc. 3. [88] Alluding to a custom of which mention is made in Genesis, chap. xxiv. 9--"And the servant put his _hand_ under the _thigh_ of Abraham his master, and _sware_ to him concerning that matter." The same form was likewise observed by Jacob and Joseph when they were dying. Some mystery is supposed to be couched under this practice. The most probable, at least the most decent, supposition is, that it was a token of subjection or homage from a servant to his lord, when the former solemnly promised to perform whatever should be commanded by the latter.--_Steevens_. [89] The following account of Lodge and his works is very imperfect. See the Shakespeare Society volume, 1853, containing much fuller particulars. [90] In the "Epistle of England to her Three Daughters," in Clarke's "Polimanteia," 1595, Lodge is spoken of as belonging to Oxford. --_Collier_. [91] Mr Malone ("Shakespeare," by Boswell, iii. 40, note 9) says that it was printed about 1580; but Lodge himself, writing in 1584, speaks of Gosson's "Plays Confuted," as written "about two years since." [92] "Scilla's Metamorphosis," 1589; "Diogenes in his Singularity," 1591; and "A Fig for Momus," 1595, are all stated to be by T.L., or Thomas Lodge, of Lincoln's Inn, Gentleman. [93] A French sonnet by Thomas Lodge is prefixed to Robert Greene's "Spanish Masquerado." He has also some French verses in "Rosalynde." [94] The lines upon Lodge in "The Return from Parnassus," 1606, would show that it did occur:-- "He that turns over Galen every day, To sit and simper 'Euphues' Legacy,'" &c. --_Collier_. [95] Afterwards purchased by Mr Collier. [96] [This does not appear quite to follow. In a poem, "Upon London Physicians," written about 1620, and quoted in "Inedited Poetical Miscellanies," edit. Hazlitt, 1870, sig. Ff 5, he is mentioned in the same way, without any reference to his literary repute or performances.] It is to be observed in the list of Lodge's productions, that there is an interval between 1596, when "Wit's Misery and the World's Madness" appeared, and 1603, when the "Treatise of the Plague" was published. [97] Others have been attributed to him in conjunction with Greene, but on no sufficient evidence--viz., "Lady Alimony," not printed until 1659; "The Laws of Nature," and "The Contention between Liberality and Prodigality," 1602.