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=3. 2. 22 I bought Plutarch's liues. = T. North's famous
translation first appeared in 1579. New editions followed in
1595, 1603, 1610-12, and 1631.

=3. 2. 33 Buy him a Captaines place. = The City Train Bands
were a constant subject of ridicule for the dramatists. They are
especially well caricatured by Fletcher in _The Knight of the
Burning Pestle_, Act 5. In addition to the City Train Bands,
the Fraternity of Artillery, now called The Honorable Artillery
Company, formed a separate organization. The place of practice
was the Artillery Garden in Bunhill Fields (see note 3. 2. 41).
In spite of ridicule the Train Bands proved a source of strength
during the Civil War (see Clarendon, _Hist. of the Rebellion_,
ed. 1826, 4. 236 and Wh-C. , _Artillery Ground_).

Jonson was fond of poking fun at the Train Bands. Cf. _U. _ 62,
_Wks. _ 8. 409; _Ev. Man in_, _Wks. _ 1. 88; and _Alchemist_,
_Wks. _ 4. 13.