Transported it from Italy, to stand
With us at London, flouts our courtiers; for
Just such gay painted things, which no sap nor
Taste have in them, ours are!
[165] fop, early form of macaroni.
BEN JONSON.
(1573-1637.)
These two pieces are taken from Jonson's Epigrams. The first of them was exceedingly popular in the poet's own lifetime.
[XII.] THE NEW CRY.
Ere cherries ripe, and strawberries be gone;