_ And have
you been in England?
you been in England?
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
'In Chas.
II. 's time the French walking-stick, with a ribbon and tassels to
hold it when passed over the wrist, was fashionable, and continued
so to the reign of George II. ' (Planche).
=4. 4. 215, 6 report the working, Of any Ladies physicke. = In
Lenton's _Leasures_ (see note 4. 4. 134) we find: 'His greatest
vexation is going upon sleevelesse arrands, to know whether some lady
slept well last night, or how her physick work'd i' th' morning,
things that savour not well with him; the reason that ofttimes he
goes but to the next taverne, and then very discreetly brings her
home a tale of a tubbe. '
Cf. also B. & Fl. , _Fair Maid of the Inn_ 2. 2: '_Host.
_ And have
you been in England? . . . But they say ladies there take physic for
fashion. '
Dekker, _Guls Horne-booke_, _Non-dram. Wks. _ 2. 255, speaks of 'a
country gentleman that brings his wife vp to learne the fashion,
see the Tombs at Westminster, the Lyons in the Tower, or to take
physicke. ' In the 1812 reprint the editor observes that in Jonson's
time 'fanciful or artful wives would often persuade their husbands
to take them up to town for the advantage of _physick_, when the
principal object was dissipation. '
=4. 4. 219 Corne-cutter. = This vulgar suggestion renders hopeless
Pug's pretensions to gentility. Corncutters carried on a regular
trade (see _Bart. Fair_ 2.
II. 's time the French walking-stick, with a ribbon and tassels to
hold it when passed over the wrist, was fashionable, and continued
so to the reign of George II. ' (Planche).
=4. 4. 215, 6 report the working, Of any Ladies physicke. = In
Lenton's _Leasures_ (see note 4. 4. 134) we find: 'His greatest
vexation is going upon sleevelesse arrands, to know whether some lady
slept well last night, or how her physick work'd i' th' morning,
things that savour not well with him; the reason that ofttimes he
goes but to the next taverne, and then very discreetly brings her
home a tale of a tubbe. '
Cf. also B. & Fl. , _Fair Maid of the Inn_ 2. 2: '_Host.
_ And have
you been in England? . . . But they say ladies there take physic for
fashion. '
Dekker, _Guls Horne-booke_, _Non-dram. Wks. _ 2. 255, speaks of 'a
country gentleman that brings his wife vp to learne the fashion,
see the Tombs at Westminster, the Lyons in the Tower, or to take
physicke. ' In the 1812 reprint the editor observes that in Jonson's
time 'fanciful or artful wives would often persuade their husbands
to take them up to town for the advantage of _physick_, when the
principal object was dissipation. '
=4. 4. 219 Corne-cutter. = This vulgar suggestion renders hopeless
Pug's pretensions to gentility. Corncutters carried on a regular
trade (see _Bart. Fair_ 2.
