Pynchon, CofL49 Look What I found in Shakespeare

[Mark Kohut]

Love's Labour's Lost, Act 4, Scene 2

Holofernes:
"Master Person, quasi pierce-one" * and if one
should be pierced, [pronounced persed] which is the one?

*This is sometimes taken as an allusion to Nashe's "Pierce Penniless,
His Supplication to the Devil", a fantastic satire in which the author,
in the character of Pierce, comments on the vices of the times; also
to Harvey's answer "Pierce's Supererogation" in which Pierce is
referred to as "the hogshead of wit"...

Alice, anyone, anyone who has read more of the academic books than I have,
is this in any of them?   (and don't have the Companion to, which I have read
much of but cannot remember this.)