June 2019
1 year ago
Sogliardo: […] by this Parchment Gentlemen, I have ben so toil’d among the Harrots [Heralds] yonder, you will not belieeve, they doe speake the straungest language, and give a man the hardest termes for his money, that ever you knew.
Carlo: But ha’ you armes? Ha’ you armes?
Sogliardo: Yfaith, I thanke God I can write myself Gentleman now, here’s my Pattent, it cost me thirtie pound by this breath.
Ben Jonson, Every Man Out of His Humour (1599)
So why is a Scot using the Cross of St George on his pennon?
ReplyDeleteI can think of at least a couple of possibilities. One is that he was actually born south of the Scottish border in England. Another may be that he lived and worked in England, and felt himself more English than Scottish. There are probably more possibilities. Without knowing more about the man, it's just speculation at this point.
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