He hath left off o' late to _feed on snakes_;
His beard's turned white again.

_Massinger, Old Law_, Act v. Sc. 1.

"He is your loving brother, sir, and will tell nobody
But all he meets, that you have eat a _snake_,
And are grown young, gamesome, and rampant."

_Ibid, Elder Brother_, Act iv. Sc. 4.

JARLTZBERG.

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LONG MEG OF WESTMINSTER.

Mr. Cunningham, in his _Handbook of London_ (2nd edition, p. 540.), has
the following passage, under the head of "Westminster Abbey:"

"_Observe._--Effigies in south cloister of several of the early
abbots; large blue stone, uninscribed, (south cloister), marking
the grave of Long Meg of Westminster, a noted virago of the
reign of Henry VIII."

This amazon is often alluded to by our old writers. Her life was printed
in 1582; and she was the heroine of a play noticed in Henslowe's
_Diary_, under the date February 14, 1594. She also figured in a ballad
entered on the Stationers' books in that year. In _Holland's Leaguer_,
1632, mention is made of a house kept by Long Meg in Southwark:--