317: 'This jewell, a plaine
_Bristowe_
stone,
a counterfeit.
a counterfeit.
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164.
In _Underwoods_ 62 the same expression is used
as in this passage:
What a strong fort old Pimlico had been!
How it held out! how, last, 'twas taken in! --
_Take in_ in the sense of 'capture' is used again in _Every Man
in_, _Wks. _ 1. 64, and frequently in Shakespeare (see Schmidt).
The reference here, as Cunningham suggests, is to the Finsbury
sham fights. Hogsden was in the neighborhood of Finsbury, and
the battles were doubtless carried into its territory.
=3. 3. 173 Some Bristo-stone or Cornish counterfeit. = Cf.
Heywood, _Wks. _ 5.
317: 'This jewell, a plaine _Bristowe_ stone,
a counterfeit. ' See Gloss.
=3. 3. 184, 5 I know your Equiuocks:=
=You'are growne the better Fathers of 'hem o' late. = 'Satirically
reflecting on the Jesuits, the great patrons of _equivocation_. '--W.
'Or rather on the Puritans, I think; who were sufficiently obnoxious
to this charge. The Jesuits would be out of place here. '--G.
Why the Puritans are any more appropriate Gifford does not vouchsafe
to tell us. So far as I have been able to discover the Puritans
were never called 'Fathers,' their regular appellation being 'the
brethren' (cf. _Alch. _ and _Bart. Fair_). The Puritans were accused
of a distortion of Scriptural texts to suit their own purposes,
instances of which occur in the dramas mentioned above.
as in this passage:
What a strong fort old Pimlico had been!
How it held out! how, last, 'twas taken in! --
_Take in_ in the sense of 'capture' is used again in _Every Man
in_, _Wks. _ 1. 64, and frequently in Shakespeare (see Schmidt).
The reference here, as Cunningham suggests, is to the Finsbury
sham fights. Hogsden was in the neighborhood of Finsbury, and
the battles were doubtless carried into its territory.
=3. 3. 173 Some Bristo-stone or Cornish counterfeit. = Cf.
Heywood, _Wks. _ 5.
317: 'This jewell, a plaine _Bristowe_ stone,
a counterfeit. ' See Gloss.
=3. 3. 184, 5 I know your Equiuocks:=
=You'are growne the better Fathers of 'hem o' late. = 'Satirically
reflecting on the Jesuits, the great patrons of _equivocation_. '--W.
'Or rather on the Puritans, I think; who were sufficiently obnoxious
to this charge. The Jesuits would be out of place here. '--G.
Why the Puritans are any more appropriate Gifford does not vouchsafe
to tell us. So far as I have been able to discover the Puritans
were never called 'Fathers,' their regular appellation being 'the
brethren' (cf. _Alch. _ and _Bart. Fair_). The Puritans were accused
of a distortion of Scriptural texts to suit their own purposes,
instances of which occur in the dramas mentioned above.
