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quam comam? qui non solhcitior sit de capitis sui decore quam de
salute ?'
109-17. doe you promise any thing . . . Ovid, A.A. i. 443-4, 449-52,
ii. 261-6: Promittas facito: quid enim promittere laedit ?
Pollicitis dives quihbet esse potest. . . .
At quod non dederis semper videare daturus.
Sic dominum stenlis saepe fefellit ager:
sic, ne perdiderit, non cessat perdere lusor,
et revocat cupidas alea saepe manus. . . .
Nee dominam iubeo pretioso munere dones :
parva sed e parvis callidus apta dato.
Dum bene dives ager, dum rami pondere nutant,
adferat in calatho rustica dona puer.
Rure suburbano potens tibi dicere missa,
ilia vel in Sacra smt licet empta Via.
120. second parts, the Latin secundae paries.
123-4. the household and servants . . . Ovid, A.A. ii. 251-4.
Nee pudor ancillas, ut quaeque ent ordine prima,
nee tibi sit servos demeruisse pudor.
Nomine quemque suo (nulla est lactura) saluta'
lunge tuis humiles ambitiose manus.
125. her chief woman. Ibidem, i. 351-3, 383-6, 389-90.
Sed prms ancillam captandae nosse puellae
cura sit. accessus molliet ilia tuos.
Proxima consilns dommae sit ut ilia, videto. . . .
Si tamen ilia tibi, dum dat recipitque tabellas,
corpore, non tantum seduhtate placet,
fac domma potiare pnus, comes ilia sequatur.
non tibi ab ancilla est mcipienda Venus.
. . . Tollitur index
cum semel in partem cnmims ipsa venit.
150. Doctor Foreman (1552-1611), astrologer and quack-doctor. He
was much sought after by women (D. is A. ii. vni. 33, where he is
dubbed 'Oracle-Foreman'). In the Overbury trial a letter from Lady
Essex to him was put in evidence asking for love-philtres to alienate
Essex's love and attract Somerset's to her.
iv. ii. 16. set your foot to mine. From the song of 'Uptails all' cf.
Fletcher, The Coxcomb, i. vi (Folio, 1647, P- 100)- Silvio sings, 'Then
set your foote to my foote, & up tails all'.
19. et rauco . . . Virgil, A en. vhi. 2.
21. Well said, E M O Ind. 330 n Bull- and bear-baiting supply the
metaphors up to line 43.