395):
Lamp-oil, watch-candles, rug-gowns, and small juice,
Thin commons, four o'clock rising,--I renounce you all.
Lamp-oil, watch-candles, rug-gowns, and small juice,
Thin commons, four o'clock rising,--I renounce you all.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
& mantles
generally worn by men and women, and exported in great quantity. '
Jonson mentions rug as an article of apparel several times. In
_Alch. _, _Wks. _ 4. 14, it is spoken of as the dress of a poor man
and _ibid. _ 4. 83 as that of an astrologer. In _Ev. Man out_ (_Wks. _
2. 110) a similar reference is made, and here Gifford explains that
rug was 'the usual dress of mathematicians, astrologers, &c. , when
engaged in their sublime speculations. ' Marston also speaks of rug
gowns as the symbol of a strict life (_What You Will_, _Wks. _ 2.
395):
Lamp-oil, watch-candles, rug-gowns, and small juice,
Thin commons, four o'clock rising,--I renounce you all.
=5. 2. 1 ff. put me To yoaking foxes,= etc. Several at least of
the following employments are derived from proverbial expressions
familiar at the time. Jonson speaks of 'milking he-goats' in
_Timber,_ ed. Schelling, p. 34, which the editor explains as 'a
proverbial expression for a fruitless task. ' The occupation of lines
5-6 is adapted from a popular proverb given by Cotgrave: 'J'aymeroy
autant tirer vn pet d'un Asne mort, que. I would as soone vndertake
to get a fart of a dead man, as &c. ' Under _Asne_ he explains the
same proverb as meaning 'to worke impossibilities. ' This explains
the passage in _Staple of News_ 3. 1. , _Wks. _ 5.
generally worn by men and women, and exported in great quantity. '
Jonson mentions rug as an article of apparel several times. In
_Alch. _, _Wks. _ 4. 14, it is spoken of as the dress of a poor man
and _ibid. _ 4. 83 as that of an astrologer. In _Ev. Man out_ (_Wks. _
2. 110) a similar reference is made, and here Gifford explains that
rug was 'the usual dress of mathematicians, astrologers, &c. , when
engaged in their sublime speculations. ' Marston also speaks of rug
gowns as the symbol of a strict life (_What You Will_, _Wks. _ 2.
395):
Lamp-oil, watch-candles, rug-gowns, and small juice,
Thin commons, four o'clock rising,--I renounce you all.
=5. 2. 1 ff. put me To yoaking foxes,= etc. Several at least of
the following employments are derived from proverbial expressions
familiar at the time. Jonson speaks of 'milking he-goats' in
_Timber,_ ed. Schelling, p. 34, which the editor explains as 'a
proverbial expression for a fruitless task. ' The occupation of lines
5-6 is adapted from a popular proverb given by Cotgrave: 'J'aymeroy
autant tirer vn pet d'un Asne mort, que. I would as soone vndertake
to get a fart of a dead man, as &c. ' Under _Asne_ he explains the
same proverb as meaning 'to worke impossibilities. ' This explains
the passage in _Staple of News_ 3. 1. , _Wks. _ 5.
