Thou doggèd Cineas, hated like a dogge, For still thou grumblest like a masty[45] dogge, Compar'st thyself to nothing but a dogge; Thou saith[46] thou art as weary as a dogge, As angry, sicke, and hungry as a dogge, As dull and melancholly as a dogge, As lazy, sleepy,[47] idle as a dogge: But why dost thou compare thee to a dogge In that, for which all men despise a dogge? I will compare thee better to a dogge: Thou art as faire and comely as a dogge, Thou art as true and honest as a dogge, Thou art as kind and liberall as a dogge, Thou art as wise and valiant as a dogge. But Cineas, I have [often][48] heard thee tell, Thou art as like thy father as may be; 'Tis like enough; and faith I like it well; But I am glad thou art not like to me. [Footnote 45: Mastiff. D. [This is an error. A 'mastiff' is not a grumbling dog, and 'masty' is = fatted, and here answers apparently to the over-fed vicious pet. See _Maste_, Prompt. Parv. & p. 151 (Way's ed.)] G.] [Footnote 46: Isham 'saist.' G.] [Footnote 47: 'And as' not in Isham, and being superfluous left out. G.] [Footnote 48: Supplied from MS. by Mr. Dyce. Isham 'oft.' G.] IN GERONTEM. 20. Geron's[49] mouldy memory corrects Old Holinshed, our famous Chronicler, With morall rules; and policy collects Out of all actions done these fourscore yeare;[50] Accounts the times of euery old[51] event, Not from Christ's birth, nor from the Prince's raigne, But from some other famous accident, Which in mens generall notice doth remaine,-- The siege of Bulloigne and the Plaguy Sweat, The going to St. Quintin's and New-haven, The rising in the North, the Frost so great That cart-wheeles' prints on Thamis face were graven,[52] The fall of money, and burning of Paul's steeple; The blazing starre, and Spaniard's ouerthrow: By these events, notorious to the people, He measures times, and things forepast doth show: But most of all, he chiefly reckons by A priuate chance,--the death of his curst[53] wife; This is to him the dearest memory, And the happiest accident of all his life. [Footnote 49: MS. 'Geron, his.' D. Isham 'Geron whose.' G.] [Footnote 50: Isham corrects the misprint 'yeares,' and of 'time' in next line. G.] [Footnote 51: Isham 'odde.' G.] [Footnote 52: The reading in our text, and in all the editions, including Isham, is 'seene': but above from MS, as rhyming with Newhaven seems preferable. Newhaven was formerly called Havre de Grace. All the date-events are commonplaces of History. G.] [Footnote 53: Ill-natured. D. [This is a good-natured explanation. I fear that in this place it means more and worse, though in the Taming of the Shrew we have Kate the curst, without the slightest imputation on her moral character, or any allusion to anything but her vixen temper. G.]] IN MARCUM. 21.