P. 516. Angry for the captain.] This was of course not Tucca, but the captain Hungry of Epigram cvii. vol. viii. p. 209, a bitterly personal attack on some one who had offended him, in which he certainly did not maintain the boast at p. 144 : "To spare the persons and to speak the vices." P. 518. Rhime them to death as they do Irish rats.] Jonson has another allusion to this idea in the Staple of News, vol v. p. 271: "The fine madrigal man in rhyme to have run him out of the country like an Irish rat." P. 520. These vile Ibides.] D'Israeli refers to this idea in his Quarrels of Authors, p. 489, ed. 1867. Among those arts of imitation which man has derived from the practice of animals, naturalists assure us that he owes the use of clysters to the Egyptian Ibis. There are some who pretend this medicinal invention comes from the stork. The French are more like ibises than we are : ils se donnent des lavements eux mêmes. . . . I recollect in Wickliffe's version of the Pentateuch, which I once saw in MS. in the possession of my valued friend Mr. Douce, that that venerable translator interpolates a little to tell us that the ibis "giveth to herself a purge." P. 521. A dark pale face.] This exactly corresponds with the appearance of Jonson in the Hardwicke portrait, and as unlike as may be to the "parboiled face full of pocky holes and pimples," "the face punched full of oylet holes like the cover of a warming pan," and "the most ungodly face, like a rotten russet apple when 'tis bruised," of the Satiromastix. Aubrey also says that "he was (or rather had been) of a clear and faire skin." END OF VOL. II. CHISWICK PRESS: PRINTED BY WHITTINGHAM AND WILKINS, |