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16 Plays
105. haue that rich goune. Ibid. 352-4
Ut spectet ludos, conducit Ogulma vestem,
conducit comites sellam ceruical arnicas
nutricem et flauam cui det mandata puellam.
no. how the land drops away. Ibid. 362, 'Prodiga nee sentit pereuntem
femma censum'.
113. may kisse a page . . . Ibid. 366-7:
Sunt quas eunuchi imbelles ac molha semper
oscula delectent et desperatio barbae.
114. be a states-woman. Ibid. 402-3
Haec eadem novit quid toto fiat in orbe,
Quid Seres, quid Thraces agant.
at Salisbury, at the time of the races in March when a gold ball valued
at £50 given by the second Earl of Pembroke was run for and held as
a challenge cup (Hoare, History of Modern Wiltshire, vi, pp. 294, 309).
at the Bath. The O.E.D. says Bath was not so called till the eighteenth
century, but Jonson has 'the Bath' here and in Ch. Tilt, 105. Campion
in the title-page of the Relation of the Royal Entertainment by Lord
Knowles at Caversham in April 1613 speaks of the Queen 'in her Progresse
toward the Bathe', and Pepys always writes 'the Bath'.
In Jonson's day patients only bathed in the springs of Bath, the
drinking of the waters began in 1663, when Charles II visited the town,
on the recommendation of his chief physician, Sir A. Frazer. In 1562
William Turner published at Cologne A booke of the natures and properties,
as well of the bathes in England as of other bathes in Germany and
Italy. The first book to deal with Bath specially was The Bathes of
Bathes Ayde. Wonderfull and most Excellent, against very many Sicknesses,
approued by authontie, confirmed by reason, and dayly tryed by
experience, with the antiquitie, commoditie, propertie, knowledge, vse,
aphonsmes, diet, medicine, and other thinges thereto to be considered and
obserued. Compendiously compiled by lohn I ones Phisitian. Anno Salutis.
1572. At Asple Hall besydes Nottingham. Printed at London for
William lones and are to be solde at his new long Shop at the west dore
of Pauls Church 13. Mai]. Later works were Edward Jorden's A Discourse
ofNaturall Bathes, with special references to ' our Bathes at Bathe
in Sommersetshire', 1631 and 1632, and Tobias Venner's The Baths of
Bathe, 1637. Smollett in 1752 published An Essay on the External Use
of Water, with ' particular remarks' upon Bath.
117. Daniel with Spenser. Contemporaries compared them. William
Clarke, Polimanteia, 1595, R2 V , 'Let other countries (sweet Cambridge)
enuie, (yet admire) my Virgil, thy petrarch, diuine Spenser. And vnlesse
I erre, (a thing easie in such simphcitie) deluded by dearhe beloued
Delia, and fortunatelie fortunate Cleopatra] Oxford thou maist extoll
thy coourt-deare verse-happie Darnell.' Davison in A Poetical Rhapsody,