Again, in "Eastward Hoe! "—
"Avaunt. dull flat-cap then!
Via, the curtain that shadowed Borgia!
There lie, thou husk of my envassall'd state."
And in Marston's "What you Will," act ii.—
"Come now, via, aloune to Celia."
See also "Mons. Thomas," act ii. sc. 2.
[254] The first line of Virgil's first "Eclogue."
[255] [A jeu d'esprit allusive to the old Bilboa sword-blades.]
[256] In astronomy, seven stars in the constellation Ursa Minor.
[257] [Old copies, I will.]
[258] A quibble alluding to Thomas Cooper's "Thesaurus Linguæ Latinæ," printed in 1548.