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Lucan in this passage is infinitely too precise, and exhausts his muse in a number of particulars, where he had better have been more succinct and select. He displays the prolific exuberance of a young poet, who had not yet taught himself the multiplied advantages of compression. He had not learned the principle, Relinquere quae desperat tractata nitescere posse.

Et quae Desperat, tractata nitescere posse, relinquit. In Bartholomew Fair, or the lowest kind of Comedy, that degree of heightening is used which is proper to set off that subject.

To Bolognia with a merrie gale wee posted, where wee lodged our selues in a blinde streete out of the way, and kept secret manie dayes: but when we perceiued we saild in the hauen, that the winde was layd, and no alarum made after vs, we boldly came abroad: & one day hearing of a more desperat murdrer than Cayn that was to be executed, we followed the multitude, and grutcht not to lend him our eyes at his last parting.

Thou hast mist the luckiest hand to scratch thy Coxcomb. Ley. No, no, Sir. Now for my part. Heigh! fight aloft for the head, boyes. How? Cater-trey ? Utr. Will you take a sleeve for your share, Sir? Ley. 'Tis but a desperat cast, and so hee'l find it, If it fall to me. Cast for your game. Utr. Have at it: Stay, let me swing my Sword thrice round first: now, Now the Graves head ... goose giblitts.