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I did not know where to employ them. Here you have a simple madman original: "Bedlam" - a common term for a lunatic, named after the Bethlehem Royal Hospital. corrected and whipped for his crazy antics. He is a certain Master of Arts from Cambridge and a poet who follows the stumbling rhythm original: "Loll & Trot" - likely a mockery of the rhythmic gait or meter used by the poet's imitator. of Spenser Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599), author of The Faerie Queene.. It is supposed he is in love with his Faerie Queene, and this has turned him into a mere sprite original: "Elf" in philosophy. He is, indeed, a wretched, slimy, snotty-nosed creature. He is troubled with a certain irritable original: "Splenetic" - in the theory of the four humors, the spleen was thought to be the seat of melancholy or irritability....