= Wittipol is 'wooing in
language
of the pleas and bench.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
_ 2. 38) we
read: 'shaking your elbow at the table-board.' Dyce says in a note
that the old folio reads _Taule-board_. _Tables_ is derived from Lat.
_Tabularum lusus_ > Fr. _Tables_. The derivation, _table_ > _tavl_ >
_taul_ > _tall_, presents no etymological difficulties. A note from
Professor Joseph Wright of Oxford confirms me in my theory.
The passage seems to mean that Merecraft was accused of cheating,
and, his valor not rising to the occasion, his reputation for honesty
was left somewhat in doubt.
=4. 6. 38-41 intitle Your vertue, to the power, vpon a life ... Euen
to forfeit.
= Wittipol is 'wooing in
language
of the pleas and bench.
'
Cf. 4. 7. 62.
=4. 6. 42 We haue another leg-strain'd, for this Dottrel.= See
variants, and note 2. 2. 49, 50.
