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Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century

Editorial note — THE GREAT BOOBEE.53

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o. Apollo was Cæsars Page, and a Monomapatan by birth, whose name by inversion was Ollopa: which in the old language of that Country, signifies as much as faire youth: but Euphoniæ Gratia, called Apollo. Gor. Bec. lib. 46.

p. Styropes was a lame Smith's-man dwelling in St. John's Street; but how he was called Bright I know not, except it were by reason of the Luster of his eyes.

q. Holla, mistaken for Apollo.

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