Note 1399 — BOOK IV THE PLAY-HOUSES (continued 3)
Reading edition
R. Crowley, One and thyrtye Epigrammes (1550, ed. E. E. T. S.), 381:
And yet me thynke those men be mooste foles of all, Whose store of money is but verye smale, And yet euerye Sondaye they will surely spende One peny or two, the bearwardes lyuyng to mende. At Paryse garden, eche Sundaye, a man shall not fayle To fynde two or thre hundredes for the bearwardes vaile. One halpenye a piece they vse for to giue, When some haue no more in their purse, I belieue;
Jonson, Execration upon Vulcan (Works, iii. 322):
a threatning to the bears, And that accursed ground, the Paris-garden;
Taylor, Bull, Bear and Horse (1638):
And that we have obtained again the game, Our Paris Garden flag proclaims the same.
Cf. Sir John Davies’ lines already quoted; also Dekker, ii. 125 (News from Hell), iv. 109 (Work for Armourers), &c., &c.