119: 'O manners that
this age should bring forth such
creatures!
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
= Preserve us. A
precaution against any evil that might result from pronouncing the
devil's name. Cf. _Knight of the Burning Pestle_ 2. 1: Sure the devil
(God bless us!) is in this springald!' and Wilson, _The Cheats_,
Prologue:
No little pug nor devil,--bless us all!
=4. 4. 191, 2 What things they are? That nature should be at leasure=
=Euer to make 'hem!= Cf. _Ev. Man in_, _Wks._ 1.
119: 'O manners that
this age should bring forth such
creatures! that nature should be at
leisure to make them!'
=4. 4. 197 Hee makes a wicked leg.= Gifford thinks that _wicked_ here
means 'awkward or clownish.' It seems rather to mean 'roguish,' a
common colloquial use.
=4. 4. 201 A setled discreet pase.= Cf. 3. 5. 22; 2. 7. 33; and
Dekker, _Guls Horne-booke_, _Non-dram.
