= As Gifford points out, Iniquity
is boasting of an impossible feat.
is boasting of an impossible feat.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
= 'Certaine I am there was neuer any
kinde of apparell euer inuented that could more disproportion the
body of man then these Dublets with great bellies, . . . stuffed with
foure, fiue or six pound of Bombast at the least. '--Stubbes, _Anat. _,
Part 1, p. 55.
=1. 1. 54 how nimble he is! = 'A perfect idea of his activity may be
formed from the incessant skipping of the modern Harlequin. '--G.
=1. 1. 56 the top of Pauls-steeple.
= As Gifford points out, Iniquity
is boasting of an impossible feat. St. Paul's steeple had been
destroyed by fire in 1561, and was not yet restored. Several attempts
were made and money collected. 'James I. countenanced a sermon at
_Paul's Cross_ in favor of so pious an undertaking, but nothing was
done till 1633 when reparations commenced with some activity, and
Inigo Jones designed, at the expense of Charles I. , a classic portico
to a Gothic church. '--Wh-C.
Lupton, _London Carbonadoed_, 1632, writes: 'The head of St. Paul's
hath twice been troubled with a burning fever, and so the city, to
keep it from a third danger, lets it stand without a head. ' Gifford
says that 'the Puritans took a malignant pleasure in this mutilated
state of the cathedral. ' Jonson refers to the disaster in his
_Execration upon Vulcan_, _U. 61_, _Wks. _ 8. 408. See also Dekker,
_Paules Steeples complaint_, _Non-dram.
kinde of apparell euer inuented that could more disproportion the
body of man then these Dublets with great bellies, . . . stuffed with
foure, fiue or six pound of Bombast at the least. '--Stubbes, _Anat. _,
Part 1, p. 55.
=1. 1. 54 how nimble he is! = 'A perfect idea of his activity may be
formed from the incessant skipping of the modern Harlequin. '--G.
=1. 1. 56 the top of Pauls-steeple.
= As Gifford points out, Iniquity
is boasting of an impossible feat. St. Paul's steeple had been
destroyed by fire in 1561, and was not yet restored. Several attempts
were made and money collected. 'James I. countenanced a sermon at
_Paul's Cross_ in favor of so pious an undertaking, but nothing was
done till 1633 when reparations commenced with some activity, and
Inigo Jones designed, at the expense of Charles I. , a classic portico
to a Gothic church. '--Wh-C.
Lupton, _London Carbonadoed_, 1632, writes: 'The head of St. Paul's
hath twice been troubled with a burning fever, and so the city, to
keep it from a third danger, lets it stand without a head. ' Gifford
says that 'the Puritans took a malignant pleasure in this mutilated
state of the cathedral. ' Jonson refers to the disaster in his
_Execration upon Vulcan_, _U. 61_, _Wks. _ 8. 408. See also Dekker,
_Paules Steeples complaint_, _Non-dram.
