The fine youth Ciprius is more tierse and neate,
Then the new garden of the Old Temple is;
And still the newest fashion he doth get,
And with the time doth change from that to this;
He weares a hat of the flat-crowne block,
The treble ruffes, long cloake, and doublet French;
He takes tobacco, and doth weare a lock,
And wastes more time in dressing then a wench:
Yet this new fangled youth, made for these times,
Doth aboue all praise old George Gascoine's[57] rimes?
[Footnote 56: _Sic_: but should be, as Isham, Ciprium: Mr. Dyce reads
Cyprium. G.]
[Footnote 57: Died October 7th, 1577. His Works have been worthily
collected by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt in his Roxburghe Library. G.]