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- 152 Notes [Act I
and satirical hits in contemporary literature. Steevens quotes the
following epigram from Humours Ordinarie, 1607 : —
" Aske Humours what a feather he doth weare,
It is his humour (by the Lord) he '11 sweare ;
Or what he doth with such a horse-taile locke,
Or why upon a whore he spends his stocke, —
He hath a humour doth determine so :
Why in the stop-throte fashion he doth goe,
With scarfe about his necke, hat without band, —
It is his humour. Sweet Sir, understand,
What cause his purse is so extreme distrest
That oftentimes is scarcely penny-blest ;
Only a humour. If you question, why
His tongue is ne'er unfumish'd with a lye, —
It is his humour too he doth protest :
Or why with sergeants he is so opprest,
That like to ghosts they haunt him ev'rie day ;
A rascal humour doth refuse to pay.
Object why bootes and spurres are still in season,
His humour answers, humour is his reason.
If you perceive his wits in wetting shrunke,
It cometh of a humour to be drunke.
When you behold his lookes pale, thin, and poore,
The occasion is, his humour and a whoore :
And every thing that he doth undertake.
It is a veine, for senseless humour's sake."
149. The tevil and his tarn ! We have several allusions to " the
devil's dam " in S. Cf. iv. 5. 108 belov^^.
150. // is affectations. Puttenham, in his Art of English Poesie,
1589, gives it as an example of " pleonasmus," or " too full speech "
— " as if one should say, I heard it with mine eares, and saw it with
mine eyes, as if a man could heare with his heeles, or see with his
nose." Some of the critics have taken the trouble to point out that
it is a Scriptural expression.
154. Great chamber. Hall, saloon. Cf. M, N. D. iii. i. 58:
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