To yield his braided[472] ware a quicker sale? Shall cock-horse, fat-paunch'd Milo stain whole stocks Of well-born souls with his adultering spots? Shall broking panders suck nobility, Soiling fair stems with foul impurity? 190 Nay, shall a trencher-slave extenuate Some Lucrece rape, and straight magnificate Lewd Jovian lust, whilst my satiric vein Shall muzzled be, not daring out to strain His tearing paw? No, gloomy Juvenal, Though to thy fortunes I disastrous fall. [453] "Come on five," "at all,"--old terms in dice-playing. [454] Ed. 1599 "her." [455] A low part of Clerkenwell. [456] Hoxton,--in Elizabethan times a favourite resort for pleasure-seekers. See particularly the opening of _The Passionate Morrice_ (pt. ii. of _Tell-Trothes New Yeares Gift_), 1593. [457] There is an allusion to a scandalous story told of Diogenes the Cynic. See Plutarch's _De Stoicorum Repugnantiis_, cap. xxi., and Diogenes Laertius' _Philosophorum Vitæ_, vi. 2, 46. [458] So I understand the "Velvet-cap't" of the old eds. [459] Old eds. "S. Homers." [460] So Hall in _Virgidem_., iv. 4:-- "Virginius vow'd to keep his maidenhead, And eats _chaste lettuce_ and drinks poppy head, And smells on camphire fasting." [461] See vol. i. p. 239. [462] Hall has this word in _Virgidem._, iv. 1. [463] The name of a disease (Gr. sukon, Lat. _ficus_).--Aretine was styled _Il divino_. [464] Juvenal, _Sat._ vi. 130. [465] See Cowell's _Interpreter_. [466] Rusty, rancid. Hall has the expression "reez'd bacon" in _Virgidem_., iv. 2. [467] Stretch. So Hall in _Virgidem._ vi. 1. 207: "When Lucan _streakèd_ on his marble bed, &c." [468] "Gilt" (or gelt)--money.--Old eds. "guilt." [469] Clownish.--"Maudolé. Misshapen, ill-framed, ill-favoured, _luskish_, without proportion."--_Cotgrave._ Athens is evidently Cambridge; and Marston is again glancing at Hall. [470] It seems to have been too common a practice for the patron of a living to pocket the best part of the incumbent's income--to "geld" the vicarage. Cf. _Jack Drum's Entertainment_:-- "Sir, it were good you got a benefice, Some eunuch'd vicarage or some fellowship" (Simpsons's _School of Shakspere_, ii. 172); Hall's _Virgidem._, iv. 2, 105-6:-- "plod at a patron's tail To get a _gelded chapel's_ cheaper sale." [471] See note, vol. ii. p. 60. [472] Faded. SATIRE IV. _Cras._