The Epistle

knew not where to employ them. You have here a simple Bedlam A madman, named for the Bethlehem Hospital asylum. corrected and whipped for his mad Tricks. A certain Master of Arts of Cambridge, and a Poet in the Loll and Trot A mocking reference to the rhythmic, plodding style of Edmund Spenser. of Spencer Edmund Spenser, the Elizabethan poet.. It is supposed he is in love with his Fairie-Queen, and this has made him a very Elf in Philosophy. He is indeed a scurvy, flabby, snotty-nosed thing. He is troubled with a certain Splenetic Archaic: irritable or melancholy due to the spleen.