no
doubt they are the deuils
spectacles
to allure vs to pride, and
consequently to distruction for euer.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
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Gifford's theory that ladies had some mode of displaying their
garters is contradicted by the following:
_Mary._ These roses will shew rare: would 'twere in fashion
That the garters might be seen too!
--Massinger, _City Madam_, _Wks._, p. 317.
Cf. also _Cynthia's Revels_, _Wks._ 2. 296.
=2. 5. 14 her owne deare reflection, in her glasse.= 'They must haue
their looking glasses caryed with them wheresoeuer they go, ...
no
doubt they are the deuils
spectacles
to allure vs to pride, and
consequently to distruction for euer.
'--Stubbes, _Anat._, Part 1, P. 79.
=2. 6. 21 and done the worst defeate vpon my selfe.= _Defeat_ is often
used by Shakespeare in this sense. See Schmidt, and compare _Hamlet_ 2.
2. 598:
--A king
Upon whose property and most dear life
A damn'd defeat was made.
