' Dekker,
_Shomakers
Holiday_,
_Wks.
_Wks.
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27 his hard names.
= A long list of the 'diverse
names of the divell' is given in _The Discovery_, p. 436,
and another in the Second Appendix, p. 522.
=1. 2. 31, 2 I long for thee. An' I were with child by him, . . .
I could not more. = The expression is common enough. Cf.
_Eastward Hoe_: 'Ger. As I am a lady, I think I am with child
already, I long for a coach so.
' Dekker, _Shomakers Holiday_,
_Wks. _ 1. 17: 'I am with child till I behold this huffecap. ' The
humors of the longing wife are a constant subject of ridicule.
See _Bart. Fair_, Act 1, and Butler's _Hudibras_, ed. 1819,
3. 78 and note.
=1. 2. 39 A thousand miles. = 'Neither are they so much
limited as Tradition would have them; for they are not at all
shut up in any separated place: but can remove millions of miles
in the twinkling of an eye. '--Scot, _Discovery_, Ap. II, p. 493.
=1.
names of the divell' is given in _The Discovery_, p. 436,
and another in the Second Appendix, p. 522.
=1. 2. 31, 2 I long for thee. An' I were with child by him, . . .
I could not more. = The expression is common enough. Cf.
_Eastward Hoe_: 'Ger. As I am a lady, I think I am with child
already, I long for a coach so.
' Dekker, _Shomakers Holiday_,
_Wks. _ 1. 17: 'I am with child till I behold this huffecap. ' The
humors of the longing wife are a constant subject of ridicule.
See _Bart. Fair_, Act 1, and Butler's _Hudibras_, ed. 1819,
3. 78 and note.
=1. 2. 39 A thousand miles. = 'Neither are they so much
limited as Tradition would have them; for they are not at all
shut up in any separated place: but can remove millions of miles
in the twinkling of an eye. '--Scot, _Discovery_, Ap. II, p. 493.
=1.
