And in this place the Lord Mayor,
Recorder, the Aldermen and
Justices
of the Peace for the County
of Middlesex do sit, and keep his Majesty's Sessions of Oyer and
Terminer.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
76 The Diuell was wont to carry away the euill.= Eckhardt, p.
100, points out that Jonson's etymology of the word _Vice_, which
has been a matter of dispute, was the generally accepted one, that
is, from _vice_ = evil.
=5. 7. 1 Iustice Hall.= 'The name of the Sessions-house in the Old
Bailey.'--G. Strype, B. 3. p. 281 says that it was 'a fair and
stately building, very commodious for that affair.' 'It standeth
backwards, so that it hath no front towards the street, only the
gateway leading into the yard before the House, which is spacious.
It cost above ?6000 the building.
And in this place the Lord Mayor,
Recorder, the Aldermen and
Justices
of the Peace for the County
of Middlesex do sit, and keep his Majesty's Sessions of Oyer and
Terminer.
' It was destroyed in the Gordon Riots of 1780.--Wh-C.
=5. 7. 9 This strange!= See variants. The change seriously injures the
metre, and the original reading should be preserved. Such absorptions
(_this_ for _this is_ or _this's_) are not uncommon. Cf. _Macbeth_ 3.
4. 17, ed. Furness, p. 165: 'yet he's good' for 'yet he is as good.'
