[275] See the new edition of Nares in voce. Orphlin is merely a contraction of the French orphelin.
"A Skilfull Painter such rare pictures drew,
That every man his workemanship admir'd:
So neere the life in beautie, forme and hew,
As if dead Art 'gainst Nature had conspir'd.
Painter, sayes one, thy wife's a pretty woman,
I muse such ill-shapt children thou hast got,
Yet mak'st such pictures as their likes makes no man,
I prethee tell the cause of this thy lot?
Quoth he, I paint by day when it is light,
And get my children in the darke at night."—
Taylor's Sculler, 1612 (Works, 1630, iii. 22).
[277] See Scoggin's Jests, p. 28 (edit. 1796).
[278] Liest.
[279] (?) God's alms. Browne calls this a dunghill oath:—
"With that the Miller laughing brush'd his cloathes,
Then swore by Cocke and other dung-hill oathes."
Britannias Pastorals, lib. i. p. 100 (ed. 1625).