Note 64 — Epigrammes.
Reading edition
With this passage compare the following lines:
"See Captaine Martio he i' th' 'Renounce me' band, That in the middle region doth stand Wo' th' reputation steele! Faith, lets remoue Into his ranke (of such discourse you loue): Hee'l tell of basilisks, trenches, retires, Of pallizadoes, parapets, frontires, Of caluerins, and baricadoes too. What to bee harquebazerd, to lie in perdue," &c.
Fitzgeoffrey's Notes from Black-Friars' Sig. E 7, a portion of the volume entitled Certain Elegies, &c., ed. 1620. See our Memorial-Introduction for an impudent appropriation of this epigram. G.