[372] I have kept this spelling, as it was doubtless used intentionally. Nashe, in his droll abuse of Barnabe Barnes, writes:--"The first of them (which is Barnes) presently upon it, because he would be noted, getting him a strange pair of Babylonian breeches with a _codpisse_ as big as a Bolonian sausage," &c. (_Works_, ed. Grosart, iii. 162). [373] Cf. vol. i. p. 12, "Now as solemn as a traveller," and the note on that passage. [374] Old ed. "oft"--corrected in the author's list of errata. [375] Old ed. "Currezan." [376] Mercury was born on Cyllene, a mountain in Arcadia. Hence Marston uses the term, Cyllenian for a person of mercurial disposition. [377] Cosmetics. [378] Nashe in _The Unfortunate Traveller_ writes in a similar strain:--"Italy, the paradise of the earth and the epicure's heaven, how doth it form our young master?... From thence he brings the art of atheism, the art of epicurising, the art of whoring." Ascham and others make similar observations. [379] Illustrations (after paintings of Giulio Romano) of the positions in venery. Aretine wrote verses to accompany the designs. [380] Old ed. "say"--corrected in the author's list of errata. [381] Tippling. [382] Dr. Grosart quotes from Hall's Satires, vi. i. 81-2:-- "When erst our dry-soul'd sires so lavish were To charge whole _bootsful_ to their friends' welfare." SATIRE III. _Quædam et sunt, et videntur._