= Perhaps used with especial
reference
to
line 1, where he has just called money a bawd Compare:
O, ay, as a bawd with aqua-vitae.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
3 Via.= This exclamation is quite common among the dramatists
and is explained by Nares as derived from the Italian exclamation
_via!_ 'away, on!' with a quibble on the literal of L. _via_, a way.
The _Century Dictionary_ agrees substantially with this derivation.
Abundant examples of its use are given by the authorities quoted, to
which may be added _Merry Devil of Edmonton_ 1. 2. 5, and Marston,
_Dutch Courtezan_, _Wks._ 2. 20:
O, yes, come, _via_!--away, boy--on!
=2. 1. 5 With Aqua-vitae.
= Perhaps used with especial
reference
to
line 1, where he has just called money a bawd Compare:
O, ay, as a bawd with aqua-vitae.
--Marston, _The Malcontent_, _Wks_. 1. 294.
'Her face is full of those red pimples with drinking Aquauite,
the common drinke of all bawdes.'--Dekker, _Whore of Babylon_,
_Wks._ 2. 246.
=2. 1. 17. See variants.= Line 15 shows that the original
reading is correct.
