English drama -- 17th century; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
Return, return, sacred Synderesis!
Inspire our trunks! Let not such mud as this
Pollute us still. Awake our lethargy,
Raise us from out our brain-sick foolery!
[546] Broken, cracked, impaired.
[547] Stretching.
[548] "Garboil"--tumult, commotion.
[549] The name of a Terentian _meretrix_.
[550] Jupiter made the night of thrice its ordinary length when
he begot Hercules.
[551] Old eds. "Souping."
[552] Clotted.
[553] Soldiers (_Span._).
[554] Old eds. "idolatries."
[555] See note 1, p. 335. [Transcriber's Note: Footnote [485]]
[556] An allusion to the closing lines of Barnabe Barnes'
sixty-third sonnet.
[557] Donne has some verses _On a Flea on his Mistress' Bosom_,
beginning:--
"Madam, that flea which crept between your breast
I envied that there he should make his rest."
Whether these verses of Donne had been written (and circulated in
MS.) so early, I do not know; but the conceit was certainly out
of the common.
[558] A deformed person; literally, one who has been branded with
a hot iron. The very words "_misshapen stigmatic_" occur in
3 _Henry VI._, ii. 2. (The Greek satirist Hipponax was an
ill-looking fellow.)
[559] Old eds. "Metim."
[560] When Jupiter discovered that he had got Metis with child,
he swallowed her; for it had been foretold that he would be
dethroned if Metis had a son.--Apollod. _Bibl._ i. 6.
[561] Old eds. "foole."
[562] See note 4, p. 351. [Transcriber's Note: Footnote [544]]
[563] So ed. 1598.--Ed. 1599 "adorning."--The confusion between
"adore" and "adorn" is common.
[564] Commonly called "push-pin," a childish game described by
Strutt.
[565] Children's toys,--particularly dolls.
SATIRE IX.
_Here's_[566] _a Toy to mock an Ape indeed._
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