Note 1109 — THE Old Wiues Tale.
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Both Stanyhurst and Harvey were favorites for this sort of ridicule. The hexameters of the former are described admirably by Nash, and, of course, are parodied here. Huff, Ruff, and Snuff were characters in the play of King Cambyses. Cf. too Harvey in "Green's Memoriall or certain funerall sonnets" (Son. vi):—
"I wott not what these cutting Huffe-snuffes meane, Of alehouse daggers I have little skill...."