Hunger-staruen trencher poetrie. ings for bread."-Warton.

Poetry written by LIB. I.

Trumpet, and reeds, and socks, and buskins fine,
EM BEQUEATH, &c.- Heroic poetry, pastorals, comedy,
cragedy, I leave to the celebrated established masters
ose different kinds of composition."-Warton.-The
which Warton thus interprets, are an obvious imitation
e following passage in the Prologue of Persius.
"Heliconidasque, pallidamque Pirenen

Illis relinquo, quorum imagines lambunt
Hederæ sequaces."

They haunt the tyded Thames, &c. The poet here al-
to the beautiful episode of the marriage of Thames
Medway, in the eleventh canto of the fourth Book of
Fairy Queen.

For lore. Forlorn.

SAT. II.

Grewes, v. Grows. Hall and Spenser were much in ractice of suiting their orthography to their rhymes, of grewes is an example.

Stole, s. Hall seems to use this word for garb. Todd es it from Saxon, and explains it to mean a long vest. Harish, adj. Gaudy.

Veede, s. Although weeds are now generally underto mean mourning dress, the word is used by the older sh writers for garments of any sort.

The horse-hoofed well. The fountain of Hippocrene on ssus, supposed to have been formed by the hoof of

us.

Apple-squire, s. A pimp, or lascivious person.

SAT. III.

ot-furie. Vid. Bishop Earle's character of a Pot-poet, Microcosmography, Ed. 1811, p. 80..

ore-barren braine. The brain that was previously

1.

Turkish Tamberlaine. This alludes to Christopher Mars absurd and inflated tragedy of Tamerlane the Great.

LIB. I. L. 17. Huf-cap. Cant, for saucy, bold, arrogant. Huff-cap was also a name given to strong ale, "from inducing people to set their caps in a bold or huffing style." Nares.

23. Soouping, part. Passing along in a stately manner, from the obsolete verb to swoop.

ib. Side, adj. Long, from the Saxon, or Danish.

28. Scaffolders, s. Those who occupied the upper galleries of a theatre.

29. The famous Corduban.

Seneca.

- 34. A selfe-misformed lout. A stage clown or buffoon; an indispensable character in old plays.

39. Hoch-poch. An incongruous mixture. In Scotland this term is applied to a soup made of a variety of vegetables; in England it is a law term, which Lyttleton defines to be a commixtion, or putting together of lands for the equal division of them, being so put together." Hall's use of the phrase is metaphorical.

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- ib. Russettings. Coarse rustic dress. The name was derived from the usual colour of such garments, namely, a reddish brown; in Fr. rousset.

42. His clumbsie fist doth bruise. "In striking the benches to express applause." Warton.

47. Doughtie geare. Important matter.

49. Scrole, s. Copy.

58. Scaffold, s. The upper gallery of a theatre.

SAT. IV.

L. 7. Maronist. An imitator of Virgil.

13. Melissa.

A sorceress of early romance, whose agency is used in Orlando Furioso, for the purpose of removing Merlin's tomb from Wales to Tuscany.

- 23. Renowmed, part. A variety in the orthography of renouned, which frequently occurs in the early editions of Spenser's works.

25. Salust of France.

Dubartas.

SAT. V.

L. 1. Another, &c. Hall here alludes to the authors of the various legends in the Mirror for Magistrates, one of the most

considerable early collections of English poetry, and a work LIB. I. which was at the height of its popularity when Virgidemiarum was published. For a detailed account of its contents, see Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. III. p. 209-282. L. 5. Whining ghost. A variety of ghosts are introduced in the Mirror for Magistrates, whom the poet sends back to hell without the means of paying Charon for their passage over the river Styx.

9. Parbrak'd, part. This word signifies literally,―vomited forth.

SAT. VI.

L. 5. Garboile, s. An uproar or commotion; from garbouille, Fr. - 13. Areed. Declare, explain.

- 16. Thwick thwack, and riffe raffe, &c. Vid. Gascoigne on Versification.

SAT. VII.

L. 7. Importune, adj. Constantly recurring, unseasonable; from importun, old Fr.

17. Wit-wal, s. This word is apparently a variety in the orthography of wittal or wittol, and means a cuckold who wits all, or knows himself to be so.

L. 1. Mell, v. To meddle.

4. Done fill. Do fill.

5. Good S. Peter, alludes to Robert Southwell's Saint
Peter's Complaint, in which the Saint weepes pure Helicon.
In the following line [6] Hall glances at the Funerall
Teares of the two Maries, a poem by the same author.
8. Great Solomon, sings in the English quire. This line re-
fers to Markham's translation of the Song of Solomon.

12. Ink-hornisme, s. This word is supposed by Nares to have been coined by Hall from the phrase of Inkhorne

LIB. I.

termes, used, by the writers of his day, for studied expres

sions.

L. 16. Bethleem. A religious house in London, which was afterwards converted into an hospital for lunatics. Hence the general term bedlam is derived.

SAT. IX.

L. 2. A new laureat. It is not improbable, as Warton suggests, that this Satire may have been directed against the writings of Robert Greene, an author of obscene memory, who died some years before Virgidemiarum was published. The laureat is described as " tyr'd in green."

3. Tyr'd, part. Attired.

5. Venerean tree. The myrtle.

To

8. Recitall-post of capitol. It was a common practice of
the Roman poets to recite their compositions in public,
and previous notice of such exhibitions was given by pla-
cards attached to pillars in different parts of the city.
this the ancient Scholiast alludes, in the following observa-
tion upon a well-known passage in the Ars Poetica of Horace.
[L. 373.] "In columnis autem Poetæ ponebant mittánia,
indicantes quo die recitaturi essent. In the Capitol there
was a public library, with which it is apparently the poet's
design to connect the recitall post. Vid. Lipsii Syntagma de
Bibliothecis, cap. vii.

21. Shordich. A part of London celebrated for brothels. 22. Indite, v. To compose, to write.

26. New Florentine. Peter Aretine, according to Warton, but the allusion rather seems general.

31. Lesbias deed. Hall gives the name of Lesbia to Sappho, who was a native of Lesbos, and is said to have been addicted to tribadism, a vicious propensity attributed to the women of that island, and frequently alluded to by the ancient epigrammatists. Vid. Martial, Lib. I. Epigr. 91; also Luciani Dialogi Meretricii, Ed. Hemsterhusii, tom. III. p. 289.

- 35. The diuell and Saint Valentine. The name of this saint is generally connected with love or gallantry. St Valentine is, therefore, introduced to denote the subject, and the Devil, to denote the character of the new laureat's rhymes:

-they relate to love, but to such love as the Devil ap- LIB. I.

proves.

LIBER II.

PROLOGUE.

L. 1. Cynick spright. Diogenes.

9. Nemesis.

"Dea scelerum ultrix, Jovis et Necessitatis, vel Oceani et Noctis filia, puniens immoderatos et impudentes, unde ejus iram deprecabantur, qui loquebantur de se."-Hoffmanni Lexicon, voc. Nemesis.

SAT. I.

L. 3. Nay, call the Cynick, &c. It is related of Diogenes, "that seeing a boy drink water in the hollow of his hand, he took his little cup out of his wallet and threw it away, saying, The boy outwent him in frugality." Stanley's History of Philosophy, Ed. 1701, p. 285.

6. Weasand, s. The throat, from the Saxon.

10. Teston, s. A sixpence, from teste, old Fr. for a head. The coin derived its name from having a head stamped upon it.

ib. Queare, s. A quire of paper, a book; from kiver, Isl.,
or quayer, old Fr.

- 13. Ope-tyde, s. The early spring, the time of opening.
- 17. Then manie a Lollerd, &c. Lollerd was a name given
to the early English Reformers, and Hall here alludes to
their practice of bearing the faggots to the stake, at which
they were to be burned.

28. Drie-fats. Cowell, in his Interpreter, explains fat to be
66 a great wooden vessell, which among brewers in London
is ordinarily used at this day, to measure mault by, contain-
ing a quarter, which they have for expedition in measuring.”
Fat is synonimous with Vat. They are both derived from
Saxon, and the latter is interpreted by Todd to mean, a
vessel into which anything is put for the purpose of fermenting.

LIB. II.