Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century — John Shaqi
Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century
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Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700; English wit and humor; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 17th century -- Literary collections
_h._ It seemes not to be meant by _Count Henry_ but his
brother _Maurice_, by comparing his picture to the thing here
spoken of. _Jansen, de præd. lib 22._
_i._ _Pheander_ was so modest, that he was called the Maiden
Knight; and yet so valiant, that a French Cavaleer wrote his
life, and called his book _Pheander_ the _Maiden Knight_.
_Hon. d'Urfee. Tom 45._
(_k_) Philip for hardiness sirnamed _Chub_,
In Beauty equall to fork bearing (_l_) _Bacchus_,
Made such a thrust at (_m_) _Ph[oe]be_ with his Club,
That made the (_n_) _Parthians_ cry she will ---- us.
_k._ This seems not to be that king that was Son of _Amintas_,
and king of _Macedon_; but one who it seems was very
lascivious.
_l._ _Bacchus_ was a drunken yeoman of the Guard to Queen
_Elizabeth_ and a great Archer; so that it seems the Authour
mistooke his halbert for a forke.
_m._ This was _Long-Megg_[F. 58] of _Westminster_, who after
this conflict with _Phillip_ followed him in all his warres.
_Justinian. lib 35._
_n._ These were _Lancashire-men_ and sent by King _Gorbadug_
(for this war seemes to have been in the time of the
_Heptarchy_ in _England_) to the aide of _Cæsar_. Cæsar. lib.
citat. prope finem.
A subtle Gloworme lying in a hedge,
And heard the story of sweet cheek't (_o_) _Apollo_,
Snatch'd from bright (_p_) _Styropes_ his Antick sledge,
And to the butter'd Flownders cry'd out (_q_) _Holla_.
_o._ _Apollo_ was _Cæsars_ Page, and a _Monomapatan_ by
birth, whose name by inversion was _Ollopa_: which in the old
language of that Country, signifies as much as faire youth:
but _Euphoniæ Gratia_, called _Apollo_. _Gor. Bec. lib. 46._
_p._ _Styropes_ was a lame Smith's-man dwelling in _St. John's
Street_; but how he was called Bright I know not, except it
were by reason of the Luster of his eyes.
_q._ _Holla_, mistaken for _Apollo_.
_Holla_ you pamper'd Jades, quoth he, look here,
And mounting straight upon a Lobsters thigh,
An _English_ man inflam'd with (_r_) double Beere,
Swore nev'r to (_s_) drink to Man, a Woman by.
_r._ Cervisia (apud Medicos, vinum hordeaceum) potus est
Anglis longè charismus; Inventum Ferrarii _Londinensis_, Cui
nomen _Smuggo_. _Polydor. Virgil. de Invent. rerum. lib. 2._
_s._ Impp. Germaniæ, antiquitus solebant, statis temporibus,
adire _Basingstochium_; ubi, de more, Jusjurandum solenne
præstabant, de non viro propinando, præsente muliere. Hic Mos,
jamdudum apud _Anglos_, pene vim legis obtinuit; quippe gens
illa, longe humanissima morem istum, in hodiernum usque
diem, magna Curiositate, pari Comitate conjuncta, usurpant.
_Pancirol. utriusque imperii. lib. 6._ cap 5.
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