he rainbow, and a pair
of moustaches like a black horse tail tied up in a knot, with two
tufts sticking out on each side, he was asked by no mean
personage, _Unde haec insania_? whence proceedeth this folly or
madness? and he replied with that weather-beaten piece of a verse
out of the Grammar, _Semel insanivimus omnes_, once in our days
there is none of us but have played the idiots; and so was he
counted and bade stand by for a Nodgscomb. He that most
patronized him, prying more searchingly into him, and finding
that he was more meet to make sport with than any way deeply to
be employed, with fair words shook him off, and told him he was
fitter for the University, than for the Court or his turn, and so
bade God prosper his studies, and sent for another Secretary to
Oxford.

"Readers, be merry; for in me there shall want nothing I can do
to make you merry. You see I have brought the Doctor out of
request at Court, and it shall cost me a fall, but I will get him
hooted out of the University too, ere I give him over. What will
you give me when I bring him upon the Stage in one of the
principalest Colleges in Cambridge? Lay any wager with me, and I
will; or if you lay no wager at all, I'll fetch him aloft in
Pedantius, that exquisite Comedy in Trinity College; where under
the chief part, from which it took his name, as namely the
concise and firking finicaldo fine School master, he was full
drawn and delineated from the sole of his foot to the crown of
his head. The just manner of his phrase in his Orations and
Disputations they stuffed his mouth with, and no Buffianism
throughout his whole books, but they bolstered out his part with;
as those ragged remnants in his four familiar epistles 'twixt him
and _Senior Immerito, raptim scripta, noste manum et stylum_,
with innumerable other of his rabble-routs: and scoffing his
_Musarum Lachrymae_ with _Flebo amorem meum etiam musarum
lachrymis_; which, to give it his due, was a more collachrymate
wretched Treatise than my _Piers Penniless_, being the pitifulest
pangs that ever any man's Muse breathed forth. I leave out half;
not the carrying up of his gown, his nice gait on his pantoffles,
or the affected accent of his speech, but they personated. And if
I should reveal all, I think they borrowed