His Muse. Thomas Sackville wrote the Induction (1563).
John Lyly. The Euphuist (c. 1554–1606), a native of the Kentish Weald. Midas (1592), Endymion (1591), Alexander and Campaspe (1584), Mother Bombie (1594).
[198]. Poor, unfledged. Cymbeline, III. 3.
Very [most] tolerable. Much Ado about Nothing, III. 3.
Grating their lean and flashy jests. Lycidas, 123–4.
‘their lean and flashy songs
Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw.’
Bobadil. Captain Bobadil, in Every Man in his Humour.
[199]. The very reeds bow down. Act IV. 2.
Out of my weakness. Hamlet, II. 2.