38 To
practice
there-with any play-fellow.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
' The term 'Lancashire
Witches' is now applied to the beautiful women for which the country
is famed. The details of the Lancaster trial are contained in Potts'
_Discoverie_ (Lond. 1613), and a satisfactory account is given by
Wright in his _Sorcery and Magic_.
=1. 1. 33 or some parts of Northumberland. = The first witch-trial
in Northumberland, so far as I have been able to ascertain,
occurred in 1628. This was the trial of the Witch of Leeplish.
=1. 1. 37 a Vice. = See Introduction, pp. xxxiv f.
=1. 1.
38 To practice there-with any play-fellow. = See variants.
The editors by dropping the hyphen have completely changed the
sense of the passage. Pug wants a vice in order that he may corrupt
his play-fellows _there-with_.
=1. 1. 41 ff. Why, any Fraud;=
=Or Couetousnesse; or Lady Vanity;=
=Or old Iniquity. =
Fraud is a character in Robert Wilson's _The Three Ladies of London_,
printed 1584, and _The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London_, c
1588, printed 1590. Covetousness appears in _Robin Conscience_, c
1530, and is applied to one of the characters in _The Staple of
News_, _Wks. _ 5. 216. Vanity is one of the characters in _Lusty
Juventus_ (see note 1. 1. 50) and in _Contention between Liberality
and Prodigality_, printed 1602 (_O. Pl.
Witches' is now applied to the beautiful women for which the country
is famed. The details of the Lancaster trial are contained in Potts'
_Discoverie_ (Lond. 1613), and a satisfactory account is given by
Wright in his _Sorcery and Magic_.
=1. 1. 33 or some parts of Northumberland. = The first witch-trial
in Northumberland, so far as I have been able to ascertain,
occurred in 1628. This was the trial of the Witch of Leeplish.
=1. 1. 37 a Vice. = See Introduction, pp. xxxiv f.
=1. 1.
38 To practice there-with any play-fellow. = See variants.
The editors by dropping the hyphen have completely changed the
sense of the passage. Pug wants a vice in order that he may corrupt
his play-fellows _there-with_.
=1. 1. 41 ff. Why, any Fraud;=
=Or Couetousnesse; or Lady Vanity;=
=Or old Iniquity. =
Fraud is a character in Robert Wilson's _The Three Ladies of London_,
printed 1584, and _The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London_, c
1588, printed 1590. Covetousness appears in _Robin Conscience_, c
1530, and is applied to one of the characters in _The Staple of
News_, _Wks. _ 5. 216. Vanity is one of the characters in _Lusty
Juventus_ (see note 1. 1. 50) and in _Contention between Liberality
and Prodigality_, printed 1602 (_O. Pl.
