Note 660 — THE BLACK BOOK.

the horse, &c.] To the wonderful horse, called Morocco, are many allusions in our old writers; nor is this the only mention of his having gone up to the top of St. Paul’s church,—a feat which, according to Dekker, took place in 1600: “Since the dancing horse stood on the top of Powles, whilst a number of Asses stood braying below,—17 [years].” A memorial &c. untill this yeare, 1617—The Owles Almanacke, 1618, p. 7.—Both the horse and his master, whose name was Banks, are said to have been burned at Rome as magicians. See more on this subject in the notes of the commentators on Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, act i. sc. 2, and in Douce’s Illust. of Shakespeare, vol. i. p. 212.