The lawyer's a sophister by his round-cap, Nor in their fallacies are they divided, The one milks the pocket, the other the tap; And yet this wench he fain would have brided. 'Come, leave these thread-bare scholars,' quoth he, 'And give me livery and seisin of thee.' 'But peace, John-a-Nokes, and leave your oration, For I never will be your impropriation; I pray you therefore, good sir, la-bee; For if ever I have a man, Square-cap for me!' 50 [_Square-Cap_ (_1647_) is one of the pleasantest of all Cleveland's poems. Its prosodic puzzle and profit have been indicated in the Introduction, and it might sometimes run more easily. But the thorough good-fellowship and _esprit de corps_ carry it off more than sufficiently. It would be pleasant to think that Mr. Samuel Pepys sang it on the famous occasion when he was 'scandalously over-served with drink' as an undergraduate. It had been printed only three years when he went up, though no doubt written earlier.] [Line: 2 Cleveland has got the fount right here.] [Line: 7 she is] she's _1653_.] [Line: 9 Monmouth-cap] A soldier.] [Lines: 13, 14 A most singular blunder in _1677_ (and the editions that follow it) shows that Cleveland's 'Vindicators' were by no means always attentive to his sense. It reads '_her_ grannam' and '_She_ shall have'--the exact effect of which, as an inducement to marry him, one would like to hear.] [Line: 15 la-bee] = 'let-a-be', 'let me alone'.] [Line: 17 One or two editions (but not very good ones) '_Thin_ Calot'. Calot of course = 'calotte', the lawyer's cap or coif.] [Line: 18 This is a signal instance of the way in which these early anapaestic lines break down into heroics. _1677_ and others read '_his_ pedigree'--not so well.] [Line: 22 S. Thomas his leas] A decree of Oct. 29, 1632, ordains that scholars and students of Corpus and Pembroke shall play football only 'upon St. Thomas Layes', the site of Downing College later. This decree and the 'S.' of _1651_, _1653_, would seem to show that _1677_ is wrong in expanding to 'Sir', though two Cambridge editors ought to have known the right name. It was also called 'Swinecroft'. (Information obtained from the late Mr. J. W. Clark's _Memories and Customs_, Cambridge, 1909, through the kindness of Mr. A. J. Bartholomew.)] [Line: 33 Satin-cap] Clerical: cf. Strode's poem on _The Caps_ (_Works_, ed. Dobell, p. 106):] The Sattin and the Velvet hive Unto a Bishopric doth drive. [Line: 36 closely ... carry] = 'disguise', 'conceal'.] Upon Phillis walking in a morning before sun-rising.