'Long Westminster! O civil-seeming shade, Mark his sad colours!--how demurely clad! 130 Staidness itself, and Nestor's gravity, Are but the shade of his civility. And now he sighs: "O thou corrupted age, Which slight regard'st men of sound carriage! Virtue, knowledge, fly to heaven again; Deign not 'mong these ungrateful sots remain! Well, some tongues I know, some countries I have seen, And yet these oily snails respectless been Of my good parts." O worthless puffy slave! Didst thou to Venice go ought[374] else to have, 140 But buy a lute and use a courtesan,[375] And there to live like a Cyllenian?[376] And now from thence what hither dost thou bring, But surphulings,[377] new paints, and poisoning,[378] Aretine's[379] pictures, some strange luxury, And new-found use of Venice venery? What art thou but black clothes? Sad Bruto, say, Art anything but only sad[380] array? Which I am sure is all thou brought'st from France, Save Naples pox and Frenchmen's dalliance; 150 From haughty Spain, what brought'st thou else beside But lofty looks and their Lucifrian pride? From Belgia, what but their deep bezeling,[381] Their boot-carouse[382] and their beer-buttering? Well, then, exclaim not on our age, good man, But hence, polluted Neapolitan. Now, Satire, cease to rub our gallèd skins, And to unmask the world's detested sins; Thou shalt as soon draw Nilus river dry As cleanse the world from foul impiety. 160 [364] A spring-lock to a gun; hence applied to anything that goes off sharply. [365] Old ed. "Boetian." [366] Old ed. "_Natales Comes_."--Noël Conti (1520-1580), a native of Milan, better known under his Latinised name, Natalis Comes, was the author of _Mythologiæ, sive explicationis Fabularum, libri decem_, first printed at Venice in 1551, and frequently reprinted. To some editions are appended _Deorum Imagines_ ... _M. Antonii Tritonii Vtinensis_. Many old treatises on mythology have the title _Imagines Deorum_. [367] We had the word "depaint" in vol. i., p. 90. It is as old as Chaucer. [368] Dance trenchmore--a lively rustic dance. [369] A sort of hard wood, used in dyeing to produce a red colour.--It is a very old word and is still in use. [370] Old ed. "thurnged." [371] It has been suggested, without the slightest shadow of foundation, that the allusion is to the death of Marlowe. Dr. Nicholson (Grosart's _Marston_, p. xlvi.) says:--"If Tubrio be Marlowe, then the hitherto unknown courtesan was the hermaphroditic 'Moll Cutpurse'" At the earliest computation Moll was born in 1584-5 (see Middleton, iv. 3); and Marlowe died in 1593.--(In old ed. the line runs:--"For from good Tubrio looke the mortall stab." The correction is made in the author's list of errata.)