[122] The author of "The World's Folly," 1615, uses squitter-wit in the same sense that Nash employs squitter-book: "The primum mobile, which gives motion to these over-turning wheels of wickedness, are those mercenary squitter-wits, miscalled poets."
In "The Two Italian Gentlemen," the word squitterbe-book, or squitter-book, is found, and with precisely the same signification which Nash gives it—
"I would mete with the scalde squitterbe-booke for this geare."
[123] His nown, instead of his own, was not an uncommon corruption. So Udall—"Holde by his yea and nay, be his nowne white sonne."
[124] [Old copy, Fuilmerodach.]
[125] Regiment has been so frequently used in the course of these volumes, in the sense of government or rule, that it is hardly worth a note.
[126] This is, of course, spoken ironically, and of old, the expression good fellow bore a double signification, which answered the purpose of Will Summer. Thus, in Lord Brooke's "Caelica," sonnet 30—
"Good fellows, whom men commonly doe call. Those that do live at warre with truth and shame."
Again, in Heywood's "Edward IV. Part I.," sig. E 4—
"KING EDWARD. Why, dost thou not love a good fellow?