When Cineas comes amongst his friends in morning, He slyly looks[503] who first his cap doth move: Him he salutes, the rest so grimly scorning, As if for ever they had lost his love. I, knowing how it doth the humour fit Of this fond gull to be saluted first, Catch at my cap, but move it not a whit: Which he perceiving,[504] seems for spite to burst. But, Cineas, why expect you more of me Than I of you? I am as good a man, 10 And better too by many a quality, For vault, and dance, and fence, and rhyme I can: You keep a whore at your own charge, men tell me; Indeed, friend Cineas, therein you excel me.[505] FOOTNOTES: [503] So Isham copy and ed. A.--Eds. B, C "spies."--MS. "notes." [504] So the MS.--Isham copy and ed. A "Which perceiving he."--Eds. B, C "Which to perceiving he." [505] The MS. adds-- "You keepe a whore att your [own] charge in towne; Indeede, frend Ceneas, there you put me downe." IN GALLUM. XXIV. Gallus hath been this summer-time in Friesland, And now, return'd, he speaks such warlike words, As, if I could their English understand, I fear me they would cut my throat like swords; He talks of counter-scarfs,[506] and casamates,[507] Of parapets, curtains, and palisadoes;[508] Of flankers, ravelins, gabions he prates, And of false-brays,[509] and sallies, and scaladoes.[510] But, to requite such gulling terms as these, With words to my profession I reply; 10 I tell of fourching, vouchers, and counterpleas, Of withernams, essoins, and champarty. So, neither of us understanding either, We part as wise as when we came together. FOOTNOTES: [506] Counter-scarps. [507] Old eds. "Casomates." [508] Old eds. "Of parapets, of curteneys, and pallizadois."--MS. "Of parapelets, curtens and passadoes."--Cunningham prints "Of curtains, parapets," &c. [509] "A term in fortification, exactly from the French _fausse-braie_, which means, say the dictionaries, a counter-breast-work, or, in fact, a mound thrown up to mask some part of the works. 'And made those strange approaches by false-brays, Reduits, half-moons, horn-works, and such close ways.' _B. Jons. Underwoods._"--Nares. [510] Dyce points out that this passage is imitated in Fitzgeoffrey's _Notes from Black-Fryers_, Sig. E. 7, ed. 1620. IN DECIUM.[511] XXV. Audacious painters have Nine Worthies made; But poet Decius, more audacious far, Making his mistress march with men of war, With title of "Tenth Worthy" doth her lade. Methinks that gull did use his terms as fit, Which term'd his love "a giant for her wit." FOOTNOTES: