In our best Armours
we make sorry fighting.
FINIS
Printed at London for R. Wood and A. Coe 1642.
[201] i.e. a stupid, semi-idiot, as—
"A Dull and Muddy Mettled rascal, peak,
Like John a dreams, impregnant of my cause,
And can say nothing."—Hamlet, Act ii. Scene 2.
[202] "A Jack a Lent" was a straw-stuffed image which was shot at, beaten, thrown at, and otherwise ill-treated during Lent. It was supposed to represent Judas Iscariot.
[93.] There was a Gentleman that dwelt in the West Countrey, and had staid here in London a Tearme longer than hee intended, by reason of a Booke that George (Peele) had to translate out of Greeke into English: and when he wanted money, George had it of the Gentleman, but the more he supplyed him of Coine, the further off he was from his Booke, and could get no end of it, neither by faire meanes, entreatie, or double payment: for George was of the Poeticall disposition, never to write so long as his money lasted; some quarter of the Booke being done, and lying in his hands at randome.