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Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot by Edmund Gayton, Esq.
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Gayton, Edmund, 1608-1666.
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1654
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which were then Senatorian and like a silver snow had covered the reverend house ten yeares beyond the Clymaterical his close shooes alter'd into pumps and he that could scarce goe without a staff will now dance out of measure He is turn'd Masker Actor and Author of a play composed of Love and at once personates himselfe and is in act Representative Type and Antitype altogether And all this like our Chrâ—sostome to winne the affection of a most delicate Lady who to heâ— beautie had wit also and knew that a gentileman of four and twenty was better company than old Aeson He had a face look'd like a blessing The context or words before will be comment to these for a word or two backward you shall find him enobled for a good fellow thence you guesse in what degree of beatitude his face was an illustrious face a glorious face a bony face or if you will have names more known and to the life a Robin Good-fellowes face a Bardolphs a Furnifals Inne face or a Bradwels face which was the blesseddest that ever I saw wherein there was not room for another blesssing if you would have studied it Our Hosts faces if they have not the thorow blessing yet their Noses commonly are in the Zenith and as torrid as if they lay parcht under the Sunne when he enters into Cancer Dangerous faces to come neer a Magazine and as comfortable and refreshing in a frosty morning they smell well as the English proverb hath it such a Nose is worth a double tost in a pot of Ale and will make it whisse as well as a hot steele It hath other uses too and very serviceable ones It was ones fortune to prescribe a direction to a friend who was too impatient to follow it being cholerick of constitution and blessed in that part and it was concerning the fetching out a spot of grease from a sute which the party imagin'd should have been effected by brown paper and a coale but the adviser said with no coale friend only a brown paper indeed which being applied to the middle part of his arme on whom the mischance of Tallow fell the patient so I call him though he prov'd otherwise ask'd and what now e'n lay your Nose close to it said the Emperick and it shall take it forth sooner then the best coale that comes from New-Castle But the blade was Sr Iohn Oldcastle Duke Humphrey never raged so and made after the Emperick whom if he had reach'd he would have given him a fee for his Counsell as good as he could have told with his ten ends of his toes Thus you see that all blessed Faces are not charitable for who but one that will carry no coales would have rewarded a friend thus for his opinion only in Face-hot presses Her Face had on the one side the Sunne and the other side the Moon I see Peter is no kinne to him that keeps the Keyes where these Stars shine what a heavenly wide face was this wherein the Sunne and Moon must necessarily be ever in Eclipse one to the other the interposition of the Nose being but small and not casting shadow enough for a dyall the Stars no doubt were like beauty specks all her body over and from her breasts downeward those infinite company of little Luminaries made a milky way whither we must referr the man usually in the concave of the Moon but now somewhat eccentrick for it would have spoyled the Moony side of her face to have had the pourtraicture of a man there Beside the spoyling or crossing of the proverb for the woman dyed in child-bed but what of that Sol homo as is aforesaid generant hominem as was here done homo being Latine for Man or Woman which at this time was born But if the Man should have been in the Moon it might have been Luna homo generant and it had been enough to have set the Sunne and the Moon and the Man in the Moon together by the eares with old William the Man of the house about the Legitimacy of Marcela which was the right Father but they both dyed and shee first as being the weaker went to the old hole and old William staied not long after and indeed according to Peters relation I wonder the World did not end with her for no doubt but the Sunne and Moon were both extinguished at her death and that is an absolute signe of the dissolution of the whole World Her Vncle was willing to marry her as soon as she was of age but not against her good will Marcelas parents dead old William and his Astronomia the Priest her Uncle was made Guardian of this falling Star which at her Mothers departure to her fellow bodyes in the firmament dropt by the way The chiefe care for such a charge the Priest presently pitch'd upon advisedly providently and pater-familiarly It is a great improvidence in Parents to let their daughters stay upon their hands like over-blown roses till they become contemptible A seasonable application and timely looking forth is best saith he of Banbury in his Bride-bush which to thaâ— purpose is very good if a thorne or two were pluckt our of it For as it is very good to provide that the childrens I mean the young wenches tâ—eth should not be set on edge so it is too severe if for a small fault as the plucking of a crab for the sauce of such folly is alwaies verjuice you make them tast of the Body of the Tree A short but apposite tale I shall tel you and conducing much to the note There was a Gentileman who was very discreet and searching into the natures and dispositions of his family and finding amongst his Philocleas and Pamelas his daughters for their beautie some and some from gravity might not be denyed these names that one and one of the least and youngest was ripest and more requiring then the rest Husbandically provided first that wanted first forthwith got a Principiis obsta as they call it in Physick or an Intus existens prohibet alienum The Virgin overjoy'd that her good houre was come could not containe and be content that the servants should invite the guests but her selfe would needs speake to some of especiall familiarity with her unwilling any should forestall the news to those whom she wish'd in the same happy condition with her selfe which when shee had done to her play fellowes for she was not well wean'd from that society they wondred and said good Lady Mrs Abigail I pray how is it that you are so forward and leap over your sisters heads We should never have believ'd it but from your owne sweet lips Truly said shee simpering and with her hankerchiefe at her mouth it were presumptuously done but that my Father who knowes me of an egg gave very good reason for it for he said I know not what he meant by it that some eggs would hatch in an Oven and that in hot weather
the principles of that fabulous book they Knight-Errant iâ— from this world into the next with a 〈◊〉 here to 〈◊〉 there Toboso being chang'd pro Paradisâ— and his Dulcinea's twinclers enlarged to the full breadth of Queen Proserpines sawcers which the Lady Margery Owletia at the largest extention can no way compare to If the Lady be in place he turnes amorously to her his face c. In these words if you will but they are too good for a neates tongue or a Calves head being borrowed from that excellent play Linguâ— in Tactus his speech when he was mad and supposed himselfe Hercules Omphale dear Commandresse of my life My hearts repose sweet Center of my cares See where the mighty sonne of Jupiter Casts himselfe prostrate at thy conquering feet Scorne not my voluntary humblenesse But blesse me with Commands Or if you will have our Knight-Mummers owne words which like Abel Druggers ginger-bread must melt out of his mouth before you can heare it heare 'um e'n as good as mine Host mutter'd over him at the consecrating of him Knight-Errant out of his provender book of Ceremonies Toboso's honour and Toboso's shame Known unto none but me by thy new name Not to thy selfe for thou poor simple wretch Canst not conceive a name of that high fetch As great Dulcinea and in Tobo-so Thou art so poor it grieves me see thee goe-so The Sailes of Gyant VVindmils shall be smocks For thee my heart or it shall cost me knocks No linings can be cooler nor no Fanne Us'd by the Persian or Mahumetan VVhat prowess can't obtaine Sancho shall steal Thou shalt receive and I will stout conceale Only thy count'nance grant grinne on thy Knight O shew thy teeth upon thy Favorite Give a good glose from thy strain'd goggle eye And as a ball from Canon shoot I fly There is no History wherein is found a Knight-Errant without a Love A Knight without a Lady is like a Face without a Nose a fiddle without a bridge a body without a head a souldier without a sword a Monkey without a taile a Lady without a looking-glasse a glasse without a face a Face without a Nose and so about it goes All Foyters men o' th' sword Hectors Herculeans Samsonians are all of them Pamphilians that is universall servants to all Ladies who have faire faces fairer fortunes lusty Butteresses and requiring gascoynes Indeed there are a sort of men call'd Solifidians such who have vow'd to one single piece of surpassing excellency their faith and services and so are ingross'd and inclos'd and made severall who before were common Of this order and rank was our Don who would be believed constant to Toboso yet I suspect him for you shall find him running at sheep anon I doe noâ— meane for hunger but lust he loved mutton literally and metaphorically as will appeare by his pursuit of Marcela whom had he overtaken after the Goat was digested I know what kinde of pulse he would have had that which they call Caprizans and you may guesse the rest Shee is not of the Roman Curtios Caios or Scipios Her lineage is very large and spreading and infinitely branch'd exceeding Iustiniansâ— ree on the negative line or side but very thinne empty and lanck upon the positive I doe believe shee could scarce run two ascents without the help of a Town or Parish where her Grandfather was found and for want of friends and acquaintance accepted of the name of the place and it is very likely to be the true genealogy for by her bulke shee must necessarily be imagin'd to descend from some body corporate left by some body politick and kept by some body Civill or else spem greg is ah nuâ—â— shee was for the Don hath not yet discovered her as shee is naturally or rather domestically endowed but sets her out in her crranticall titles and the fantasticall and imaginary apprehensions of her future Queen-ship shee was I say Aulica Coquinae and of that litter which is but a degree neater or finer then the turne-spits if the dog at any time was weary cry a wheel and shee knew not whether it was her turne or no only shee did it without side the dog within shee by hand that by foot Many of her kindred are knew not by the names of Cicely Bumtrinket Gillian of Winchester Long Meg Ione Easie besides the Fustyloeggs the Dowdees the Trollops the Maukins the Fussocks the Trugmouldies the Funcos all which were Fausen sluts like Bartholmew Faire pig-dressers who look at the same time like the damms as well as the Cooks of what they roasted Sancho Pancha did verily believe all his Masters words were true Sancho though he was not train'd up to second his Masters lyes yet he had as good a quality which was to hold his peace and let them passe Davus had no better commendations then fides Taciâ—urnitas as saith the Comaedian in Andriâ— A Spanish shâ—ugg will shift off a lie sometimes as well as a louse This is the Body of Chrysostome who was peerlesse c. Now we must leave fooling we are at a funerall and Chrysostomes body a spectacle of mortality is before us Signior Ambrosio likewise hath a pastoral oration for his brother Shepheard deceased staine by the negative voice of Marcela who this night is to be rail'd upon by the black skins in as lamentable noyse as the wild Irish make their O hones As for example O hone O hone why wouldst thou dye good Chryfostome hadst thou not Sheep and Oxen I and Cowes yea and red Cowes whose milk is good against the Consumption hadst thou noâ— Orchard and Gardens and sage in those Gardens which whosoever hath and eates how canst thou dye Was not thy Father and Mother dead and left thee all why wilt thou dy O bone hadst thou not wit more then all thy friends neighbours and kindred and why then wouldst thou dye and leave us fools behind thee but O hone We will follow thee even to that place where thou receivedst thy deaths wound O hone for a womans denyall O hone didst thou not know yes too well that caeteri volunt O hone or a whetstone for my wits are very dull upon this melancholy subject He commanded mee to sacrifice them to the fire What volumes of this hard subject had this Loves-Martyr wrote which after this fire were never to see light It was well done of Vivaldo to endeavour the reprieve for the vapours of so much discontented sad melancholy stuff might in an ill time affected all the standers by and wrought such sad impressions in their braines that the party that were single might have disavow'd women-kind and then it might have had the example been followed brought the World to a conclusion that Age and the parties married would have no doubt gone home and for feare of such unkindnesse so laboured to please their wives for men doe strange feats when they are melancholy that the numerous fruits of one