It seems to have been
a
favorite
subject of attack at the hands of both Puritans and
dramatists.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
78). Furnivall quotes _Histriomastix_
(Simpson's _School of Shak._ 2. 50) and _Vindication of Top
Knots_, Bagford Collection, 1. 124, in illustration of the
subject. Gosson's _Pleasant Quippes_ (1595) speaks of 'these
naked paps, the Devils ginnes.' Cf. also _Cyn. Rev._, _Wks._
2. 266, and _Case is A._, _Wks._ 6. 330.
It seems to have been
a
favorite
subject of attack at the hands of both Puritans and
dramatists.
=2. 6. 76 Downe to this valley.= Jonson uses a similar
figure in _Cyn. Rev._, _Wks._ 2. 240 and in _Charis_
(see note 2. 6. 57).
=2. 6. 78 these crisped groues.= So Milton, _Comus_, 984:
'Along the crisped shades and bowers.' Herrick, _Hesper.
