Volume III Part 35 (1/2)

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 wh.o.r.e 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 pa.s.sadoes.”--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 pa.s.sage 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 t.i.tle 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.”