How
modestly
she blows and paints the sun
With her chaste blushes.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
21 and done the worst defeate vpon my selfe.= _Defeat_ is often
used by Shakespeare in this sense. See Schmidt, and compare _Hamlet_ 2.
2. 598:
--A king
Upon whose property and most dear life
A damn'd defeat was made.
=2. 6. 32 a body intire.= Cf. 5. 6. 48.
=2. 6. 35 You make me paint.
= Gifford quotes from the _Two Noble
Kinsmen_:
How
modestly
she blows and paints the sun
With her chaste blushes.
=2. 6. 37 SN.= 'Whoever has noticed the narrow streets or
rather lanes of our ancestors, and observed how story projected
beyond story, till the windows of the upper rooms almost touched
on different sides, will easily conceive the feasibility of
everything which takes place between Wittipol and his mistress,
though they make their appearance in different houses.'--G.
I cannot believe that Jonson wished to represent the two houses
as on opposite sides of the street. He speaks of them as
'contiguous', which would naturally mean side by side. Further
than this, one can hardly imagine even in the 'narrow lanes of
our ancestors' so close a meeting that the liberties mentioned
in 2. 6. 76 SN. could be taken.
