For its frequent use in this sense in
Shakespeare
see Schmidt
and note on _Macbeth_ 3.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
125; 1. 6. 145; 5. 8. 142, 3, etc.
=1. 3. 5 while things be reconcil'd.= In Elizabethan
English both _while_ and _whiles_ often meant 'up to the time
when', as well as 'during the time when' (d. a similar use of
'dum' in Latin and of ? ?? in Greek).--Abbot, ?137.
For its frequent use in this sense in
Shakespeare
see Schmidt
and note on _Macbeth_ 3.
1. 51, Furness's edition. Cf. also
Nash, _Prognostication_, _Wks._ 2. 150: 'They shall ly in their
beds while noon.'
=1. 3. 8, 9 those roses Were bigge inough to hide a clouen
foote.= Dyce (_Remarks_, p. 289) quotes Webster, _White
Devil_, 1612:
--why, 'tis the devil;
I know him by a great rose he wears on's shoe,
To hide his cloven foot.
Cunningham adds a passage from Chapman, _Wks._ 3. 145:
_Fro._ Yet you cannot change the old fashion (they say)
And hide your cloven feet.
