To call them tertias 8-tertia of the kitchen,
Tertia of the cellar, tertia of the chamber,

And tertia of the stables.

Fly. That I can, sir;

And find out very able, fit commanders
In every tertia.

Tip. Now you are in the right.

As in the tertia of the kitchen, yourself,
Being a person elegant in sauces,

There to command, as prime maestro del campo,
Chief master of the palate, for that tertia,

Or the cook under you; 'cause you are the marshal,

And the next officer in the field, to the host.
Then for the cellar, you have young Anon,
Is a rare fellow-what's his other name?
Fly. Pierce, sir.

Tip. Sir Pierce, I'll have him a cavalier. Sir Pierce Anon will pierce us a new hogshead. And then your thoroughfare, Jug here, his alfarez : An able officer, give me thy beard, round Jug, I take thee by this handle, and do love

One of thy inches. In the chambers, Jordan here;
He is the don del campo of the beds.

And for the stables, what's his name?
Fly. Old Peck.

Tip. Maestro del campo, Peck! his name is curt, A monosyllable, but commands the horse well.

Fly. O, in an inn, sir, we have other horse, Let those troops rest a while. Wine is the horse, That we must charge with here.

Tip. Bring up the troops,

Or call, sweet Fly; 'tis an exact militia,

8 To call them tertias.] Tertia (Span.) is that portion of an army which is levied out of one particular district, or division of a country. Alfarez is an ensign, or standard-bearer.

And thou an exact professor; Lipsius Fly
Thou shalt be call'd, and Jouse :-

Enter FERRET and TRUNDLE.

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Jack Ferret, welcome. Old trench-master, and colonel of the pioneers, What canst thou bolt us now? a coney or two Out of Tom Trundle's burrow, here, the coach? This is the master of the carriages.

How is thy driving, Tom, good, as it was?

Trun. It serves my lady, and our officer Prue. Twelve miles an hour! Tom has the old trundle still. Tip. I am taken with the family here, fine fellows! Viewing the muster-roll.

Trun. They are brave men.

Fer. And of the Fly-blown discipline all, the quar

ter-master.

Tip. The Fly is a rare bird in his profession. Let's sip a private pint with him: I would have him Quit this light sign of the Light Heart, my bird, And lighter house. It is not for his tall And growing gravity, so cedar-like, To be the second to an host in cuerpo, That knows no elegances: use his own

9 And thou an exact professor, Lipsius Fly.] Lipsius wrote a treatise upon the Roman militia; so that the allusion is evident: but what is the meaning of the following,

"Lipsius Fly

Thou shalt be call'd, and Jouse?"

The Christian name of Lipsius, as he wrote it in Latin, was Justus ; of which Jouse perhaps is the original. WHAL.

Whalley has overlooked one part of the allusion. Lipsius' Fly (for so it should be printed) refers to the description given by Lipsius of a celebrated automaton, a steel fly, made by a German artist, which would fly round the table. "Quæ ex artificis manu egressa, convivas circumvolitavit, tandemque veluti defessa, in domini manus reversa est." The artist's name was (Müller) Regiomontanus.

Dictamen, and his genius; I would have him
Fly high, and strike at all.-

Enter PIERCE.

Here's young Anon, too.

Pierce. What wine is't gentlemen, white or claret?

Tip. White,

My brisk Anon.

Pierce. I'll draw you Juno's milk

That dyed the lilies, colonel.

Tip. Do so, Pierce.

Enter PECK.

[Exit.

Peck. A plague of all jades, what a clap he has

gi'en me!

Fly. Why, how now, cousin?

Tip. Who's that?

Fer. The hostler.

Fly. What ail'st thou, cousin Peck?

Peck. O me, my hanches!"

[Takes him aside.

As sure as you live, sir, he knew perfectly

I meant to cozen him. He did leer so on me,

1 Peck. A plague of all jades, &c.] Here should have been a stage-direction, Enter Peck. WHAL.

This is excellent. We are almost got to the end of Jonson's plays, and Whalley has just discovered that an entrance is wanting! I have supplied thousands; and not a few in what has already passed of the present drama.

2 Peck. O me, &c.] What follows, about the tricks of ostlers, occurs likewise in the first act of Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage; and perhaps there may be some difficulty in accounting for this coincidence. We are told that some plays of Beaumont and Fletcher being left imperfect, were fitted for the stage by Shirley, who added what he thought necessary to complete them: and that it is probable he here borrowed from our author's New Inn, what passes between Lazaro and Diego in Love's Pilgrimage: and this he thought, perhaps, might be done with safety enough, as the New Inn met with ill success in the representation. It will not, I believe, be said

And then he sneer'd, as who would say, take heed, sirrah ;

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And when he saw our half-peck, which you know
Was but an old court-dish, lord, how he stamp'd,
I thought 't had been for joy: when suddenly
He cuts me a back-caper with his heels,

And takes me just o' the crupper. Down come I
And my whole ounce of oats! Then he neigh'd out,
As if he had a mare by the tail.

Fly. Troth, cousin,

You are to blame to use the poor dumb Christians So cruelly, defraud 'em of their dimensum.* Yonder's the colonel's horse (there I look'd in) Keeping our Lady's eve! the devil a bit

He has got, since he came in yet! there he stands, And looks and looks, but 'tis your pleasure, coz, He should look lean enough.

that Jonson was the borrower; for the whole scene is entirely in his manner and we have an instance in Sejanus, how extremely scrupulous he was in claiming the production of another person. WHAL.

Love's Pilgrimage did not appear until 1647, when it was completed and given to the world by Shirley. He therefore is accountable for the introduction of this scene into Fletcher's fragment; and he might insert it with the less scruple, as the practice was not much of a novelty, and the plundered play was, perhaps, as little known as esteemed. Mr. Stephen Jones observes with that perspicacity and good sense for which he is so deservedly famous, that, "as the New Inn miscarried, (in 1629) it is very probable that Jonson gave Beaumont and Fletcher his consent to make use of this dialogue." Biograph. Dramat. There can be no doubt of it; since Fletcher had then been in his grave only four, and Beaumont fourteen years!

3 Was but an old court-dish.] Whalley could not explain this term; neither can I; though I have met with the expression elsewhere in the sense of short allowance. Perhaps it is a misprint for curt-dish, a shallow, or rather broken dish: this, however, would be more in the style of colonel Tipto than of cousin Peck.

Defraud them of their dimensum,] i. e. of their full measure. Dimensum was the term used by the Romans for the stated allowance of provisions periodically delivered out to their slaves.

Peck. He has hay before him.

Fly. Yes, but as gross as hemp, and as soon will choke him,

Unless he eat it butter'd. He had four shoes, And good ones, when he came in it is a wonder, With standing still, he should cast three.

Peck. Troth, quarter-master,

This trade is a kind of mystery, that corrupts
Our standing manners quickly: once a week,
I meet with such a brush to mollify me,
Sometimes a brace, to awake my conscience,
Yet still I sleep securely.

Fly. Cousin Peck,

You must use better dealing, faith, you must.
Peck. Troth, to give good example to my suc-

cessors,

I could be well content to steal but two girths, And now and then a saddle-cloth, change a bridle, For exercise; and stay there.

Fly. If you could,

There were some hope on you, coz: but the fate is, You are drunk so early, you mistake whole saddles ; Sometimes a horse.

Peck. Ay, there's

Re-enter PIERCE with wine.

Fly. The wine! come, coz,

I'll talk with you anon.

[They come forward.

Peck. Do, lose no time,

Good quarter-master.

Tip. There are the horse, come, Fly.
Fly. Charge, in boys, in--

Enter JORDAN.

Lieutenant of the ordnance,

Tobacco and pipes.

Tip. Who's that? Old Jordan! good.