CRAPULA, Gustus's follower.

MENDACIO, CRAPULA, APPETITUS crying.

What's this, Crapula beating Appetitus out of doors?

Appetitus should have been as the bowl to present this medicine to the Senses, and now Crapula hath beaten him out of doors; what shall I do?

[Exit CRAPULA.

SCAENA DECIMA. CRAPULA, a fat-bellied slave, clothed in a light veil of sarsanet, a garland of vine-leaves on his head, &c. SOMNUS in a mantle of black cobweb lawn down to the foot, over a dusky-coloured taffeta coat, and a crown of poppy-tops on his head, a company of dark-coloured silk scarfs in one hand, a mace of poppy in the other, leaving his head upon a pillow on CRAPULA'S shoulders.

SCAENA DECIMA. CRAPULA, a fat-bellied slave, clothed in a light veil of sarsanet, a garland of vine-leaves on his head, &c. SOMNUS in a mantle of black cobweb lawn down to the foot, over a dusky-coloured taffeta coat, and a crown of poppy-tops on his head, a company of dark-coloured silk scarfs in one hand, a mace of poppy in the other, leaving his head upon a pillow on CRAPULA'S shoulders.

O Crapula, how now, how now!

[Exit CRAPULA.

SOMNUS, CRAPULA, LINGUA, VISUS, GUSTUS, AUDITUS pulling OLFACTUS by the nose, and OLFACTUS wringing AUDITUS by the ears.

Come, come, I'll end this quarrel; bind them[310], Crapula.

TACTUS, with the robe in his hand, SOMNUS, CRAPULA, LINGUA, GUSTUS, OLFACTUS VISUS, AUDITUS.

[Exeunt SOMNUS et CRAPULA.

APPETITUS IRASCIBILIS with a willow in his hand, pulled up by the roots, SOMNUS, CRAPULA.

Enter CRAPULA.

[APPETITUS heaveth up his club to brain CRAPULA; but SOMNUS in the meantime catcheth him behind, and binds him. SOM.

Why, how now, Crapula? CRA.

[Exeunt SOMNUS and CRAPULA.

PHANTASTES, ANAMNESTES, HEURESIS drawing CRAPULA.

My lord, here's a fat rascal was lurking in a bush very suspiciously: his name, he says, is Crapula.

While he is speaking, Crapula, from the effects of over-eating, is continually coughing, which is expressed in the old copies by the words tiff toff, tiff toff, within brackets.

Plures crapula, quam gladius, is a true saying, the board consumes more than the sword.

A true saying it is, Plures crapula quam gladius.

In pocula et aleam se praecipitavit, et iis fere tempus traduxit, ut aegram crapula mentem levaret, et conditionis praesentis cogitationes quibus agitabatur sobrius vitaret.

The Pope was wont to have a weekly debauch, and the cardinal chose this favourable moment for his appeal: "Gli usava una volta la settimana di fare una crapula assai gagliarda,