[403] Dashed.
[404] Dyce, in a note on a passage of The Captain, iv. 3 (Beaumont and Fletcher, iii. 295), quotes from A Brown Dozen of Drunkards, 1648, sig. C:—“This late Lusty Lawrence, that Lancashire Lad, who had seventeen bastards in one year, if we believe his Ballad,” &c.
[405] Seemingly a contraction (metri causa) of “Nemesis.”
[406] “Rex hominumque deorumque.”—Marginal note in old ed.
[407] One legend makes Asopus, father of Aegina, to have been the river that watered the Phliasian territory in Argolis. See Heyne’s note on Apollodorus’ Bibl., iii. 12. 5.
[408] Gnatho,—used by Plautus and Terence as a proper name for a parasite (Gr. γνάθων).
[409] “Laver lip” = hanging lip. Cf. Hall’s Satires, ii. 2:—“A lave-ear’d ass with gold may trappèd be;” and again in iv. 1—“His ears hang laving like a new-lugg’d swine.”
[410] I fail to understand why Epictetus’ name should stand here. The conclusion of this satire is more in ‘Ercles’ vein than in Epictetus’.—At the end of old ed. is a list of “Faults escaped.”
[a/]THE SCOURGE OF VILLAINY.
The Scovrge of Villanie. Three bookes of Satyres.
Persevs.
v v v Nec scompros [sic] metuentia carmina nec thus.