For
Iniquity
see Introduction, p.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
50) and in _Contention between Liberality
and Prodigality_, printed 1602 (_O. Pl. _ 4th ed. , 8. 328). She seems
to have been a favorite with the later dramatists, and is frequently
mentioned (_I Henry IV. _ 2. 4; _Lear_ 2. 2; _Jew of Malta_ 2. 3,
Marlowe's _Wks. _ 2. 45). Jonson speaks of her again in _The Fox_,
_Wks. _ 3. 218.
For Iniquity see Introduction, p. xxxviii.
The change in punctuation (see variants), as well as that two lines
below, was first suggested by Upton in a note appended to his
_Critical Observations on Shakespeare_. Whalley silently adopted
the reading in both cases.
=1. 1. 43 I'll call him hither. = See variants. Coleridge, _Notes_, p.
280, says: 'That is, against all probability, and with a (for Jonson)
impossible violation of character. The words plainly belong to Pug,
and mark at once his simpleness and his impatience. ' Cunningham says
that he arrived independently at the same conclusion, and points out
that it is plain from Iniquity's opening speech that _he_ understood
the words to be Pug's.
=1. 1. 49 thy dagger. = See note 1.
and Prodigality_, printed 1602 (_O. Pl. _ 4th ed. , 8. 328). She seems
to have been a favorite with the later dramatists, and is frequently
mentioned (_I Henry IV. _ 2. 4; _Lear_ 2. 2; _Jew of Malta_ 2. 3,
Marlowe's _Wks. _ 2. 45). Jonson speaks of her again in _The Fox_,
_Wks. _ 3. 218.
For Iniquity see Introduction, p. xxxviii.
The change in punctuation (see variants), as well as that two lines
below, was first suggested by Upton in a note appended to his
_Critical Observations on Shakespeare_. Whalley silently adopted
the reading in both cases.
=1. 1. 43 I'll call him hither. = See variants. Coleridge, _Notes_, p.
280, says: 'That is, against all probability, and with a (for Jonson)
impossible violation of character. The words plainly belong to Pug,
and mark at once his simpleness and his impatience. ' Cunningham says
that he arrived independently at the same conclusion, and points out
that it is plain from Iniquity's opening speech that _he_ understood
the words to be Pug's.
=1. 1. 49 thy dagger. = See note 1.
