Faustinus, Sextus, Cinnæ, Ponticus, With Gella, Lesbia, Thais, Rhodope, Rode all to Stanes[16] for no cause serious, But for their mirth, and for their leachery: Scarce were they setled in their lodging, when Wenches with wenches, men with men fell out: Men with their wenches, wenches with their men; Which straight dissolues[17] their ill-assembled rout.[18] But since the Deuill brought them thus together, To my discovrsing[19] thoughts it is a wonder, Why presently as soone as they came thither, The selfe same deuill did them part asunder. Doubtlesse it seemes it was a foolish deuill, That thus did[20] part them e're they did some euill. [Footnote 14: MS. "Thinkinge." D.] [Footnote 15: MS. "In meritriculas [_sic_] Londinensis." D.] [Footnote 16: MS. "Ware." D.] [Footnote 17: MS. "dissolv'd." D.] [Footnote 18: "Rabble, set." D.] [Footnote 19: MS. "discerninge." D.] [Footnote 20: MS. "straight would." D. Isham 'thus would.' G.] IN TITAM.[21] 6. Titas, the braue and valorous[22] young gallant, Three yeares together in this towne hath beene; Yet my Lord Chancellor's tombe[23] he hath not seene Nor the new water-worke,[24] nor the Elephant.[25] I cannot tell the cause without a smile,-- He hath beene in the Counter[26] all this while. [Footnote 21: Mr. Dyce corrects (as Isham) to 'Titum' and line 1st 'Titus.' G.] [Footnote 22: MS. "Valient." G.] [Footnote 23: Viz., of Sir Christopher Hatton, whose huge and splendid monumental-tomb was long one of the London sights for country cousins. Col. Cunningham (_in loco_) adds "It was erected in St. Paul's Cathedral, and Bishop Corbet says was "higher than the host and altar." G.] [Footnote 24: Recently described by SMILES in his Lives of the Engineers. _s. v._ G.] [Footnote 25: It is curious to find the article '_the_' Elephant. Coriat later gave his own portrait showing himself on the back of an elephant, as a great wonder, in one of his travel title-pages. But query--Is it the famous inn named by Shakespeare: "I could not find him at the Elephant" (Twelfth Night, iv. 3)? Col. Cunningham (as before) assuming it is the animal that is meant, annotates thus: "The Elephant was an object of great wonder and long remembered. A curious illustration of this is found in _The Metamorphosis of the Walnut Tree_, written about 1645, where the poet [William Basse] brings trees of all descriptions to the funeral, particularly a gigantic oak-- The youth of these our tymes that did behold This motion strange of this unwieldy plant, Now boldly brag with us that are more old, That of our age they no advantage want, Though _in our youth we saw an elephant_. G.] [Footnote 26: Debtors' prison. G.] IN FAUSTUM. 7.