that hast not spar'd
Powder or paper to bring up the youth
Of London, in the
military
truth.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
_ 4. 507) make precisely similar references. Master
Stephen in _Every Man in_ (_Wks._ 1. 10) objects to keeping
company with the 'archers of Finsbury.' Cf. also the elaborate
satire in _U._ 62, (_Wks._ 8. 409).
=3. 2. 45 to traine the youth=
=Of London, in the military truth.= Cf. _Underwoods_ 62:
Thou seed-plot of the war!
that hast not spar'd
Powder or paper to bring up the youth
Of London, in the
military
truth.
Gifford believes these lines to be taken from a contemporary
posture-book, but there is no evidence of quotation in the case
of _Underwoods_.
=3. 3. 22, 3 This comes of wearing=
=Scarlet, gold lace, and cut-works!= etc. Webster has a passage very
similar to this in the _Devil's Law Case_, _Wks._ 2. 37 f.:
'_Ari._ This comes of your numerous wardrobe.
_Rom._ Ay, and wearing cut-work, a pound a purl.
_Ari._ Your dainty embroidered stockings, with overblown roses,
to hide your gouty ankles.
_Rom.
