Notes_,
June, 1905) gives Plautus, _Epidicus_ 2.
June, 1905) gives Plautus, _Epidicus_ 2.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
45-8 wee poore Gentlemen .
.
.
piece.
= Cf.
Webster,
_Devil's Law Case_, _Wks. _ 2. 38: 'You have certain rich city
chuffs, that when they have no acres of their own, they will go
and plough up fools, and turn them into excellent meadow. ' Also
_The Fox_ 2. 1:
--if Italy
Have any glebe more fruitful than these fellows,
I am deceived.
As source of the latter Dr. L. H. Holt (_Mod. Lang.
Notes_,
June, 1905) gives Plautus, _Epidicus_ 2. 3. 306-7:
nullum esse opinor ego agrum in agro Attico
aeque feracem quam hic est noster Periphanes.
=3. 5. 2 the row. = Stow (_Survey_, ed. 1633, p. 391) says that
Goldsmith's Row, 'betwixt _Breadstreete_ end and the Crosse in
_Cheap_,' is 'the most beautifull Frame of faire houses and shops,
that be within the Wals of _London_, or elsewhere in England. ' It
contained 'ten faire dwelling houses, and fourteene shops' beautified
with elaborate ornamentation. Howes (ed. 1631, p. 1045) says that
at his time (1630) Goldsmith's Row 'was much abated of her wonted
store of Goldsmiths, which was the beauty of that famous streete. '
A similar complaint is made in the _Calendar of State Papers_,
1619-23, p. 457, where Goldsmith's Row is characterized as the 'glory
and beauty of Cheapside. ' Paul Hentzner (p.
_Devil's Law Case_, _Wks. _ 2. 38: 'You have certain rich city
chuffs, that when they have no acres of their own, they will go
and plough up fools, and turn them into excellent meadow. ' Also
_The Fox_ 2. 1:
--if Italy
Have any glebe more fruitful than these fellows,
I am deceived.
As source of the latter Dr. L. H. Holt (_Mod. Lang.
Notes_,
June, 1905) gives Plautus, _Epidicus_ 2. 3. 306-7:
nullum esse opinor ego agrum in agro Attico
aeque feracem quam hic est noster Periphanes.
=3. 5. 2 the row. = Stow (_Survey_, ed. 1633, p. 391) says that
Goldsmith's Row, 'betwixt _Breadstreete_ end and the Crosse in
_Cheap_,' is 'the most beautifull Frame of faire houses and shops,
that be within the Wals of _London_, or elsewhere in England. ' It
contained 'ten faire dwelling houses, and fourteene shops' beautified
with elaborate ornamentation. Howes (ed. 1631, p. 1045) says that
at his time (1630) Goldsmith's Row 'was much abated of her wonted
store of Goldsmiths, which was the beauty of that famous streete. '
A similar complaint is made in the _Calendar of State Papers_,
1619-23, p. 457, where Goldsmith's Row is characterized as the 'glory
and beauty of Cheapside. ' Paul Hentzner (p.
