lled at Ostentation in devotion, or in dress. The
fifth represents the sad plight of a courtier, whose Perewinke, as
he terms it, the wind had blown off by unbonnetting in a salute, and
exposed his waxen crown or scalp. 'Tis probable this might be about
the time of their introduction into dress here. The sixth, which is a
fragment, contains a hyperbolical relation of a thirsty foul, called
Gullion, who drunk Acheron dry in his passage over it, and grounded
Charon's boat, but floated it again, by as liberal a stream of urine.
It concludes with the following sarcastical, yet wholesome irony.

Drinke on drie foule, and pledge Sir Gullion:
Drinke to all healths, but drink not to thyne owne.

The seventh and last is a humorous description of a famished beau, who
had dined only with duke Humfrey, and who was strangely adorned with
exotic dress.

To these three satires he adds the following conclusion.

Thus have I writ, in smoother cedar tree,
So gentle Satires, penn'd so easily.
Henceforth I write in crabbed oak-tree rynde,
Search they that mean the secret meaning find.
Hold out ye guilty and ye galled hides,
And meet my far-fetched stripes with waiting sides.

In his biting satires he breathes still more of the spirit and
stile of Juvenal, his third of this book being an imitation of that
satirist's eighth, on Family-madness and Pride of Descent; the
beginning of which is not translated amiss by our author. The
principal object of his fourth satire, Gallio, would correspond with
a modern Fribble, but that he supposes him capable of hunting and
hawking, which are exercises rather too coarse and indelicate for
ours: this may intimate perhaps, that the reign of the great Elizabeth
had no character quite so unmanly as our age. In advising him to wed,
however, we have no bad portrait of the Petit Maitre.

Hye thee, and give the world yet one dwarfe more,
Such as it got when thou thy selfe was bore.

His fifth satire contrasts the extremes of Prodigality and Avarice;
and by a few initials, which are skabbarded, it looks as if he had
some individuals in view; though he has disclaimed such an intention
in his postscript (now the preface) p. 6. lin. 25, &c. His sixth sets
out very much like the first satire of Horace's first book, on the
Dissatisfaction and Caprice of mankind--Qui fit Mecaenas; and, after
a just and lively-description of our different pursuits in life, he
concludes with the following pr