Mr. Thorn-Drury supplies the following references bearing
directly on the nickname, and not noticed in the B.M.
Catalogue: _Foure fugitives meeting Or, The Discourse amongst
my Lord Finch, Sir Frances Windebank, Sir John Sucklin, and
Doctor Roane, as they accidentally met in France, with a
detection of their severall pranks in England. Printed In the
Yeare, 1641_. 4^{o}.
Suckling says to Roane, 'Hold there good Doctor _Roane_, and
take me with you, you are to be blamed too, for not bidding
farewell to Sir _Paul Pinder_, (at whose beauteous house, you
have devoured the carkasse of many a cram'd Capon) before you
fled, but I wonder more, why you came hither so unprovided;
methinks some English dyet would have bin good for a weake
stomack: the Church-Wardens of Northhamptonshire promised to
give you a good fee, if you will goe to 'em, and resolve 'em
whether they may lawfully take the oath &c. or no.
'_Wind_. That may very well be, for they have given him a
great Addition, they stile him, Og the great Commissary, they
say he was as briske in discharging the new Canons, as he that
made them.'
Suckling addresses Roane as 'Immense Doctor Roane': so it is
possible that it was his personal appearance which suggested
the name of Og.
Cf. also _Canidia. The Third Part_, p. 150 (1683):
Are you a Smock-Sinner, or so,
Commute soundly, and you shall be let go.
Fee _Ogg_ the great _Commissary_ before and behind,
Then sin on, you know my mind.
]
[Line: 39 _1647_, _1651_, _1653_, &c. '_It_ would', which can
hardly be right.]
[Line: 44 'sob' _1647_, _1651_: _1653_ clearly '_f_ob': 'Sob'
1677. Cf. _Comedy of Errors_ (iv. iii. 22) 'gives a sob'.
'Sob' is literally 'an act on the part of a horse of
recovering its wind after exertion'--hence 'respite'
(_N.E.D._).]
[Line: 51 Porph'ry Chair] The Pope's throne, the myths of
which, as well as of Pope Joan herself, are vulgate. 'Nephew'
carries out the allusion: Popes' sons being called so
Better to preserve the peace.
]
[Line: 59 thy] this _1651_, _1653_.]
[Line: 62 The merit of the style for burlesque use could
hardly be better brought out.]
*_To the Hectors, upon the unfortunate death of H. Compton._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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