“Theres one with a lame wit, which will not weare a foure cornerd cap, then let him put on Tiburne, that hath but three corners.”[100]
Of about the same date is an allusion in Tarlton’s “Newes out of Purgatorie,” 1590:—
“It was made like the shape of Tiborne, three square.”[101]
THE TRIPLE TREE ABOUT 1614.
(In the uppermost lozenge on the left.)
A third reference is found in Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour Lost,” one of his early plays:—
“Thou mak’st the triumviry, the corner-cap of society,
The shape of Love’s Tyburn, that hangs up simplicity.”[102]