When somebody passes by.'"
[1105] Sc. beard.
[1106] The upshot of much investigation seems to be that the phrase to have cockell-bread means to get a lover or a husband.
[1107] So in Hartmann's Iwein, a knight pours water from a certain well upon a stone near by; a terrible thunderstorm is the immediate result. A similar act may bring the milder rain for one's crops (Grimm, Mythologie, p. 494).
[1108] Harvey had an indifferent ear for verse, and here, perhaps,—since the hexameters follow so hard upon,—is a neat way of stating the fact.
[1109] Both Stanyhurst and Harvey were favorites for this sort of ridicule. The hexameters of the former are described admirably by Nash, and, of course, are parodied here. Huff, Ruff, and Snuff were characters in the play of King Cambyses. Cf. too Harvey in "Green's Memoriall or certain funerall sonnets" (Son. vi):—
"I wott not what these cutting Huffe-snuffes meane,
Of alehouse daggers I have little skill...."
[1110] Dy. points out that this is an actual line in Harvey's Encomium Lauri.
[1111] Below 'rattle,' Sig. E.