e to your Orbe and proper Clime
Your wandring Rayes.

Lett no dark corner of the Land
Bee unimbellisht with one Gemme,
And those which here too thick doe stand
Sprinkle on them.

And, trust mee, Ladyes, you will find
In that sweet life more sollid joyes,
More true contentment to the minde,
Then all Towne-Toyes.

Nor Cupid there less blood doth spill,
Butt heads his shafts with chaster love,
Not feath'red with a Sparrow's quill
Butt of a Dove.

There may you heare the Nightingale,
The harmeless Syren of the wood,
How prettily shee tells a tale
Of rape and blood.

Plant trees you may and see them shoot
Up with your Children, to bee serv'd
To your cleane Board, and the fayr'st fruite
To bee preserved;

And learne to use their sev'rall gumms.
Tis innocente in the sweet blood
Of Cherrys, Apricocks and Plumms
To bee imbru'd.

[235] The Galliard, a lively French dance described in Sir John Davies'
_Orchestra_ (st. 67).

[236] Sc. good-bye. Cf. Shirley's _Constant Maid_, i. 1, "Buoy, _Close_,
buoy, honest _Close_: we are blanks, blanks."

[237] Can the reference be to _Troilus and Cressida_?

[238] Ben Jonson's _Alchemist_.

[239] Puisne (i.e. puny) was the term applied to students at the Inns of
Court; also to Freshmen at Oxford.

[240] Cf. Shirley's _Honoria and Mammon_, i. 2:

"Go to your Lindabrides
I'the new brothel; she's a handsome _leveret_."

[241] The first edition of this well-known book was published in 1628.
_Parsons Resolutions_ is a fictitious book.

[242] The "lamentable ballad of the Lady's Fall" has been reprinted by
Ritson and Percy.

[243] In the MS. follows a line, scored through:--

"And while my footman plaies sigh out my part."

[244] Shirley delights in ridiculing the affectation in which the
gallants of his time indulged. Cf. a very similar passage in _The Lady
of Pleasure_, v. 1.

[245] The cant language of thieves. In Harman's _Caveat for Cursitors_,
or some of Dekker's tracts, "Pedlars' French" may be found in abundance.

[246] I print this passage exactly as I find it in the MS. With a little
trouble it might be turned into good law.

[247] _Aut Shirley aut Diabolus_. Cf. _Duke's Mistress_, iv. 1:

"You shall lead destiny in cords of silk,
And it shall follow tame and to you