On the continent I
have frequently been present at it.
have frequently been present at it.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
'--Collier,
_Memoirs_, p. 268.
Jonson not infrequently refers to contemporary actors. Compare
the _Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy_, _Ep. _ 120; the speech of Venus
in _The Masque of Christmas_, _Wks. _ 7. 263; and the reference
to Field and Burbage in _Bart. Fair_ 5. 3.
=2. 8. 73 send frolicks! = '_Frolics_ are couplets,
commonly of an amatory or satirical nature, written on small
slips of paper, and wrapt round a sweetmeat. A dish of them is
usually placed on the table after supper, and the guests amuse
themselves with sending them to one another, as circumstances
seem to render them appropriate: this is occasionally productive
of much mirth. I do not believe that the game is to be found in
England; though the drawing on Twelfth Night may be thought to
bear some kind of coarse resemblance to it.
On the continent I
have frequently been present at it. '--G.
The _NED. _ gives only one more example, from R. H. _Arraignm. _
_Whole Creature XIV. _ ? 2. 244 (1631) 'Moveable as Shittlecockes
. . . or as Frolicks at Feasts, sent from man to man, returning
againe at last, to the first man. '
=2. 8. 74, 5 burst your buttons, or not left you seame.
_Memoirs_, p. 268.
Jonson not infrequently refers to contemporary actors. Compare
the _Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy_, _Ep. _ 120; the speech of Venus
in _The Masque of Christmas_, _Wks. _ 7. 263; and the reference
to Field and Burbage in _Bart. Fair_ 5. 3.
=2. 8. 73 send frolicks! = '_Frolics_ are couplets,
commonly of an amatory or satirical nature, written on small
slips of paper, and wrapt round a sweetmeat. A dish of them is
usually placed on the table after supper, and the guests amuse
themselves with sending them to one another, as circumstances
seem to render them appropriate: this is occasionally productive
of much mirth. I do not believe that the game is to be found in
England; though the drawing on Twelfth Night may be thought to
bear some kind of coarse resemblance to it.
On the continent I
have frequently been present at it. '--G.
The _NED. _ gives only one more example, from R. H. _Arraignm. _
_Whole Creature XIV. _ ? 2. 244 (1631) 'Moveable as Shittlecockes
. . . or as Frolicks at Feasts, sent from man to man, returning
againe at last, to the first man. '
=2. 8. 74, 5 burst your buttons, or not left you seame.
