[Footnote 76: MS. "valiant and all-daring." D. [First edition, "braue, most all daring." G.]]
[Footnote 79: Hospital: or query prison? So late as Thomson's "Castle of Indolence" (c I. 77) we have the word: "all the diseases which the _spittles_ know." G.]
[Footnote 80: Probably most readers are aware that it was formerly the custom of gallants to smoke tobacco on the stage, during the performance, either lying on the rushes or sitting upon hired stools. D. [In Hutton's 'Satyres' and 'Epigrams' (1619) well edited by RIMBAULT for the Percy Society, there are various passages illustrative of above, _e.g._
"Dine with Duke Humfrey in decayed Paules" Confound the streetes with chaos of old braules, Dancing attendance on the Black-friers stage Call for a stoole with a commanding rage, &c. [pp. 68, 69.] Cf.
Also Ben Jonson's _Devil is an Ass_ (1616) who censures the conduct of the gallants allowed seats on the stage. G.]]
Haywood, that did[82] in Epigrams excell, Is now put downe since my light Muse arose; As buckets are put downe into a well, Or as a schoole-boy putteth downe his hose.[83]
[Footnote 81: Mr. Dyce spells Heywodum. John Heywood's Epigrammes accompany his Proverbs: 1562. G.]
[Footnote 82: 1st edition, 'which in epigrams did;' Isham 'which did.' [The Epigrams of John Heywood are well known. An allusion to this epigram of Davies occurs in Sir John Harington's _Metamorphosis of Ajax_, 1596: "This Heywood for his proverbs and epigrams is not yet put down by any of our country, though one [_Marginal Note_, M[aster] Davies] doth indeed come near him, that graces him the more in saying he puts him down," p. 41, edition 1814. (In the same work we find, "But, as my good M. Davies said of his epigrams, that they were made, like doublets in Birchin-lane, for every one whom they will serve, &c. p. 133. D.] [I add from T. BASTARD'S 'Chrestoleros' [Lib. II: Epigram 15] an answer to this:
Heywood goes downe saith Dauis, sikerly, And downe he goes, I can it not deny: But were I happy did not fortune frowne Were I in heart I would sing Dauy downe.
Cf. also lib. iii. Ep. 3. Mr. DYCE also quotes from Freeman's _Rubbe and a great Cast_, 1614. G.]]
Amongst the poets Dacus numbred is, Yet could he neuer make an English rime; But some prose speeches I haue heard of his, Which haue been spoken many an hundreth time: The man that keeps the Elephant hath one, Wherein he tells the wonders of the beast: Another Bankes pronouncèd long agon,[85] When he his curtailes[86] qualities exprest: He first taught him that that keeps the monuments At Westminster, his formall tale to say; And also him which Puppets represents, And also him which with the Ape doth play: Though all his Poetry be like to this, Amongst the poets Dacus numbred is.