'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 passage 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 title of "Tenth Worthy" doth her lade.