"He hath perus'd all the impressions
Of Sonnets, since the fall of Lucifer,
And made some scurvy quaint collections
Of fustian phrases, and uplandish words."
Heywood's Fair Maid of the Exchange, 1600.
[304] Perhaps went is the true reading.
[305] "What must he (the king) do then? He must be a student. He must write God's booke himselfe, not thinking because he is a king, but he hath licence to do what he will, as these worldly flatterers are wont to say."—Latimer's Second Sermon before King Edward VI. 1549.
[306] i.e. coming home.
[307] Better known as Roberto Caraccioli-Caraccioli. He was born in 1425 at Licio, in the Neapolitan territory, and was thence often called Robertus Liciensis. Watt (Bibliotheca Britannica, voce Licio) mentions only his sermons: but he published several other tracts.
[308] Usually spelt prease or prese. The word signifies crowd. It occurs in this sense in Edwardes' Damon and Pythias, composed about 1564.
"Yet shall there no restraynt
Cause me to cese,
Among this prese,
For to encrese
Youre goodly name."
Skelton's Garlande of Laurell.
[309] Orig. and Singer read or els you to holde.