Fitzdottrel
does not mean that
Wittipol
cannot have 'beyond a minute', but that
he cannot have a minute beyond the quarter of an hour allowed him.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
'You lade me', then, seems to mean 'You make an ass of me'.
The same use of the word occurs in Dekker, _Olde Fortunatus_,
_Wks._ 1. 125: 'I should serue this bearing asse rarely now, if
I should load him'. And again in the works of Taylor, the Water Poet,
p. 311: 'My Lines shall load an Asse, or whippe an Ape.' Cf.
also _Bart. Fair_, _Wks._ 4. 421: 'Yes, faith, I have my
lading, you see, or shall have anon; you may know whose beast I am
by my burden.'
=1. 4. 83, 4 But, not beyond=,
=A minute, or a second, looke for=. The omission of the comma after
_beyond_ by all the later editors destroys the sense.
Fitzdottrel
does not mean that
Wittipol
cannot have 'beyond a minute', but that
he cannot have a minute beyond the quarter of an hour allowed him.
=1. 4. 96 Migniard.= 'Cotgrave has in his dictionary,
"_Mignard_--migniard, prettie, quaint, neat, feat, wanton, dainty,
delicate." In the _Staple of News_ [_Wks._ 5. 221] Jonson tries
to introduce the substantive _migniardise_, but happily without
success.'--G.
=1. 4. 101 Prince Quintilian.= The reputation of this famous
rhetorician (c 35-c 97 A. D.) is based on his great work entitled
_De Instiutione Oratoria Libri_ XII. The first English edition seems
to have been made in 1641, but many Continental editions had preceded
it.
