Haywood, that did[82] in Epigrams excell,
Is now put downe since my light Muse arose;
As buckets are put downe into a well,
Or as a schoole-boy putteth downe his hose.[83]
[Footnote 81: Mr. Dyce spells Heywodum. John Heywood's Epigrammes
accompany his Proverbs: 1562. G.]
[Footnote 82: 1st edition, 'which in epigrams did;' Isham 'which did.'
[The Epigrams of John Heywood are well known. An allusion to this
epigram of Davies occurs in Sir John Harington's _Metamorphosis of
Ajax_, 1596: "This Heywood for his proverbs and epigrams is not yet
put down by any of our country, though one [_Marginal Note_, M[aster]
Davies] doth indeed come near him, that graces him the more in saying
he puts him down," p. 41, edition 1814. (In the same work we find,
"But, as my good M. Davies said of his epigrams, that they were made,
like doublets in Birchin-lane, for every one whom they will serve, &c.
p. 133. D.] [I add from T. BASTARD'S 'Chrestoleros' [Lib. II:
Epigram 15] an answer to this:
Heywood goes downe saith Dauis, sikerly,
And downe he goes, I can it not deny:
But were I happy did not fortune frowne
Were I in heart I would sing Dauy downe.
Cf. also lib. iii. Ep. 3. Mr. DYCE also quotes from Freeman's
_Rubbe and a great Cast_, 1614. G.]]
[Footnote 83: Breeches. D.]