Which unto them God's truth hath shewed;
Of such they have burned and hanged some.
That unto their ydolatrye wold not come:
The Ladye Truthe they have locked in cage,
Saying of her Nobodye had knowledge.
For as much nowe as they name Nobodye
I thinke verilye they speke of me:
Whereffore to answere I nowe beginne--
The locke of my mouthe is opened with ginne,
Wrought by no man, but by God's grace,
Unto whom be prayse in every place," &c.

Larwood and Hotten's _History of Signboards_.]

[Footnote 7: PULSE.--All sorts of leguminous seeds.]

[Footnote 8: See Dedication to _The Scourge of Baseness_.]

[Footnote 9: MASTER DOCTOR HOLLAND.--The once well-known Philemon
Holland, Physician, and "Translator-General of his Age," published
translations of Livy, 1600; Pliny's "Natural History," 1601; Camden's
"Britannica," &c. He is said to have used in translation more paper and
fewer pens than any other writer before or since, and who "would not let
Suetonius be Tranquillus." Born at Chelmsford, 1551; died 1636.]

[Footnote 10: EDMUND BRANTHWAITE.--Robert Branthwaite, William
Branthwaite _Cant._, and "Thy assured friend" R. B., have each written
Commendatory Verses to ALL THE WORKS OF JOHN TAYLOR. London 1630. And
Southey in his "Lives and Works of Uneducated Poets," has the
following:--"One might have hoped in these parts for a happy meeting
between John Taylor and Barnabee, of immortal memory; indeed it is
likely that the Water-Poet and the Anti-Water-Poet were acquainted, and
that the latter may have introduced him to his connections hereabout,
Branthwaite being the same name as Brathwait, and Barnabee's brother
having married a daughter of this Sir John Dalston."]

[Footnote 11: PIERCE PENNILESS, by Thomas Nash. London, 1592.]

[Footnote 12: This "ordnance of iron" still exists there, and is
historically known as "Mons Meg" and popularly as "Long Meg."]

[Footnote 13: RECEITE.--A receptacle.]

[Footnote 14: VAUSTITY.--Emptiness.]

[Footnote 15: _See_ Anderson's The Cold Spring of Kinghorn Craig, Edinb.
1618.]

[Footnote 16: CORYATIZING.--Thomas Coryate, an English traveller, who
called himself the "Odcombian leg-stretcher." He was the son of the
rector of Odcombe, and in 1611 published an account of his travels on
the Continent with the singular title of "Coryates Crudities. Hastily
gobled up in f