Publius [a] student at the Common-law,
Oft leaves his Bookes, and for his recreation,
To Paris-garden[113] doth himselfe withdrawe;
Where he is rauisht with such delectation,
As downe among[114] the beares and dogges he goes;
Where, whilst he skipping cries "to head to head,"
His satten doublet and his veluet hose[115]
Are all with spittle from aboue be-spread:
When he is like his father's countrey Hall,[116]
Stinking with dogges, and muted[117] all with haukes;
And rightly too on him this filth doth fall,
Which for such filthy sports his bookes forsakes;[118]
Leaving old Ployden,[119] Dyer, Brooke alone,
To see old Harry Hunkes, and Sacarson.[120]
[Footnote 113: That is, to the Bear-Garden on the Bank-side, Southwark.
D. Near the Globe Theatre: referred to as Palace garden by Hutton, as
before. Isham reads badly 'parish.' The Theatre at Paris Garden stood
almost exactly at what is now the Surrey starting place of Blackfriars
Bridge. In 1632 Donald Lupton in his _London and the Country
Carbonadoed_ says of it, "Here come few that either regard their credit
or loss of time; the swaggering Roarer; the amusing Cheater; the
swearing Drunkard; and the bloody Butcher have their rendezvous here,
and are of the chiefe place and respect." (Col. Cunningham's Marlowe,
p. 365). G.]
[Footnote 114: Isham 'amongst the dogges and beares.' G.]
[Footnote 115: Breeches. G.]
[Footnote 116: Misprinted 'countrey shall': Qu--country-Hall, as above?
Isham 'country Hall.' G.]
[Footnote 117: Dunged. D.]
[Footnote 118: Isham badly 'forsake.' G.]
[Footnote 119: Plowden. D.]
[Footnote 120: Harry Hunkes and Sacarson were two bears at
Paris-garden: the latter was the more famous, and is mentioned by
Shakespeare in _The Merry Wives of Windsor_, Act I., sc. 1. D. Isham
'Sakersone.' G.]