No More Learning

_, p. 334) speaks of wearing a chain
of gold 'on solemn days. ' With the present passage cf. _Underwoods_
62, _Wks. _ 8. 410:

If they stay here but till St. George's day.
All ensigns of a war are not yet dead,
Nor marks of wealth so from a nation fled,
But they may see gold chains and pearl worn then,
Lent by the London dames to the Lords' men.

=3. 3. 170 take in Pimlico. = 'Near Hoxton, a great summer resort in
the early part of the 17th century and famed for its cakes, custards,
and Derby ale. The references to the Hoxton Pimlico are numerous
in our old dramatists. '--Wh--C. It is mentioned among other places
in _Greene's Tu Quoque, The City Match_, fol.
1639, _News from
Hogsdon_, 1598, and Dekker, _Roaring Girle_, _Wks. _ 3. 219, where it
is spoken of as 'that nappy land of spice-cakes. ' In 1609 a tract
was published, called _Pimlyco or Runne Red-Cap, 'tis a Mad World at
Hogsdon_.

Jonson refers to it repeatedly. Cf. _Alch. _, _Wks. _ 4. 155:

--Gallants, men and women.
And of all sorts, tag-rag, been seen to flock here,
In threaves, these ten weeks, as to a second Hogsden,
In days of Pimlico and Eye-bright.

Cf. also _Alch. _, _Wks. _ 4. 151; _Bart.