IN MARCUM. XXI.
When Marcus comes from Mins',[495] he still doth swear,
By "come[496] on seven," that all is lost and gone:
But that's not true; for he hath lost his hair,
Only for that he came too much on[497] one.
FOOTNOTES:
[495] Dyce conjectures that this was the name of some person who kept an ordinary where gaming was practised. (MS. "for newes.")
[496] So eds. B, C.—Isham copy and ed. A "a seaven."
[497] So MS. with some eccentricities of spelling ("to much one one").—Old eds. "at."