p. Styropes was a lame Smith's-man dwelling in St. John's Street; but how he was called Bright I know not, except it were by reason of the Luster of his eyes.
q. Holla, mistaken for Apollo.
Holla you pamper'd Jades, quoth he, look here,
And mounting straight upon a Lobsters thigh,
An English man inflam'd with (r) double Beere,
Swore nev'r to (s) drink to Man, a Woman by.
r. Cervisia (apud Medicos, vinum hordeaceum) potus est Anglis longè charismus; Inventum Ferrarii Londinensis, Cui nomen Smuggo. Polydor. Virgil. de Invent. rerum. lib. 2.
s. Impp. Germaniæ, antiquitus solebant, statis temporibus, adire Basingstochium; ubi, de more, Jusjurandum solenne præstabant, de non viro propinando, præsente muliere. Hic Mos, jamdudum apud Anglos, pene vim legis obtinuit; quippe gens illa, longe humanissima morem istum, in hodiernum usque diem, magna Curiositate, pari Comitate conjuncta, usurpant. Pancirol. utriusque imperii. lib. 6. cap 5.
By this time grew the conflict to be (t) hot,
Boots against boots, 'gainst (u) Sandals, Sandals fly,