IN CYPRIUM. XXII.
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he fine youth Cyprius is more terse and neatThan the new garden of the Old Temple is;And still the newest fashion he doth get,And with the time doth change from that to this;He wears a hat now of the flat-crown block,[498]The treble ruff,[499] long coat, and doublet French:He takes tobacco, and doth wear a lock,[500]And wastes more time in dressing than a wench.Yet this new-fangled youth, made for these times,Doth, above all, praise old George[501] Gascoigne's rhymes.[502] 10 FOOTNOTES: [498] Shape or fashion; properly the wooden mould on which the crown ofa hat is shaped. [499] So MS.--Old eds. "ruffes." [500] Love-lock; a lock of hair hanging down the shoulder in the leftside. It was usually plaited with ribands. [501] So MS. and eds. B, C.--Not in Isham copy or ed. A. [502] Gascoigne's "rhymes" have been edited in two thick volumes by Mr.Carew Hazlitt. He died on 7th October 1577. In Gabriel Harvey's _LetterBook_ (recently edited by Mr. Edward Scott for the Camden Society) thereare some elegies on him.
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