in enigmatical representation of some name, &c., by using figures or pictures instead of words, or parts of words. Camden mentions an instance of this absurd kind of wit in a gallant, who expressed his love to a woman, named Rose Hill, by painting in the border of his gown a rose, a hill, an eye, a loa, and a well; which, in the style of the rebus, reads, Rose Hill, I love well! This kind of wit was long practised by the great, who took the pains to find devices for their names. It was, however, happily ridiculed by Ben Johnson, in the homonious description of Abel Drugger's device, in the Alchemist; and by the Spectator, in the device of Jack of Newberry; at which time the rebus, being raised to sign-posts, was grown out of fashion at court.