If they stay here but till St. George’s day. All ensigns of a war are not yet dead, Nor marks of wealth so from a nation fled, But they may see gold chains and pearl worn then, Lent by the London dames to the Lords’ men. =3. 3. 170 take in Pimlico.= ‘Near Hoxton, a great summer resort in the early part of the 17th century and famed for its cakes, custards, and Derby ale. The references to the Hoxton Pimlico are numerous in our old dramatists.’--Wh--C. It is mentioned among other places in _Greene’s Tu Quoque, The City Match_, fol. 1639, _News from Hogsdon_, 1598, and Dekker, _Roaring Girle_, _Wks._ 3. 219, where it is spoken of as ‘that nappy land of spice-cakes.’ In 1609 a tract was published, called _Pimlyco or Runne Red-Cap, ’tis a Mad World at Hogsdon_. Jonson refers to it repeatedly. Cf. _Alch._, _Wks._ 4. 155: --Gallants, men and women. And of all sorts, tag-rag, been seen to flock here, In threaves, these ten weeks, as to a second Hogsden, In days of Pimlico and Eye-bright. Cf. also _Alch._, _Wks._ 4. 151; _Bart. Fair_, _Wks._ 4. 357; and this play 4. 4. 164. In _Underwoods_ 62 the same expression is used as in this passage: What a strong fort old Pimlico had been! How it held out! how, last, ’twas taken in!-- _Take in_ in the sense of ‘capture’ is used again in _Every Man in_, _Wks._ 1. 64, and frequently in Shakespeare (see Schmidt). The reference here, as Cunningham suggests, is to the Finsbury sham fights. Hogsden was in the neighborhood of Finsbury, and the battles were doubtless carried into its territory. =3. 3. 173 Some Bristo-stone or Cornish counterfeit.= Cf. Heywood, _Wks._ 5. 317: ‘This jewell, a plaine _Bristowe_ stone, a counterfeit.’ See Gloss. =3. 3. 184, 5 I know your Equiuocks:= =You’are growne the better Fathers of ’hem o’ late.= ‘Satirically reflecting on the Jesuits, the great patrons of _equivocation_.’--W. ‘Or rather on the Puritans, I think; who were sufficiently obnoxious to this charge. The Jesuits would be out of place here.’--G. Why the Puritans are any more appropriate Gifford does not vouchsafe to tell us. So far as I have been able to discover the Puritans were never called ‘Fathers,’ their regular appellation being ‘the brethren’ (cf. _Alch._ and _Bart. Fair_). The Puritans were accused of a distortion of Scriptural texts to suit their own purposes, instances of which occur in the dramas mentioned above. On the whole, however, equivocation is more characteristic of the Jesuits. They were completely out of favor at this time. Under the generalship of Claudio Acquaviva, 1581-1615, they first began to have a preponderatingly evil reputation. In 1581 they were banished from England, and in 1601 the decree of banishment was repeated, this time for their suspected share in the Gunpowder Plot.