' Spanish terms were
fashionable
at this time.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
271-3, should also be consulted.
Brome satirizes it in
the _City Wit_, _Wks. _ 2. 300. Lady Politick Would-be in the _Fox_
is of course addicted to the habit, and a good deal is said on the
subject in _Epicoene_. Dekker (_West-ward Hoe_, _Wks. _ 2. 285) has
a passage quite similar in spirit to Jonson's satire.
=4. 2. 71 the very Infanta of the Giants! = Cf. Massinger and Field,
_Fatal Dowry_ 4. 1: 'O that I were the infanta queen of Europe! '
Pecunia in the _Staple of News_ is called the 'Infanta of the
mines.
' Spanish terms were fashionable at this time. Cf. the use of
_Grandees_, 1. 3. It is possible that the reference here is to the
Infanta Maria. See Introduction, p. xviii.
=4. 3. 5, 6 It is the manner of Spaine, to imbrace onely, Neuer to
kisse. = Cf. Minsheu's _Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues,_ pp. 51-2:
'_W. _ I hold that the greatest cause of dissolutenesse in some women
in England is this custome of kissing publikely. . .
the _City Wit_, _Wks. _ 2. 300. Lady Politick Would-be in the _Fox_
is of course addicted to the habit, and a good deal is said on the
subject in _Epicoene_. Dekker (_West-ward Hoe_, _Wks. _ 2. 285) has
a passage quite similar in spirit to Jonson's satire.
=4. 2. 71 the very Infanta of the Giants! = Cf. Massinger and Field,
_Fatal Dowry_ 4. 1: 'O that I were the infanta queen of Europe! '
Pecunia in the _Staple of News_ is called the 'Infanta of the
mines.
' Spanish terms were fashionable at this time. Cf. the use of
_Grandees_, 1. 3. It is possible that the reference here is to the
Infanta Maria. See Introduction, p. xviii.
=4. 3. 5, 6 It is the manner of Spaine, to imbrace onely, Neuer to
kisse. = Cf. Minsheu's _Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues,_ pp. 51-2:
'_W. _ I hold that the greatest cause of dissolutenesse in some women
in England is this custome of kissing publikely. . .
