' The
humors of the longing wife are a
constant
subject of ridicule.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
522.
=1. 2. 31, 2 I long for thee. An' I were with child by him, ...
I could not more.= The expression is common enough. Cf.
_Eastward Hoe_: 'Ger. As I am a lady, I think I am with child
already, I long for a coach so.' Dekker, _Shomakers Holiday_,
_Wks._ 1. 17: 'I am with child till I behold this huffecap.
' The
humors of the longing wife are a
constant
subject of ridicule.
See _Bart. Fair_, Act 1, and Butler's _Hudibras_, ed. 1819,
3. 78 and note.
=1. 2. 39 A thousand miles.= 'Neither are they so much
limited as Tradition would have them; for they are not at all
shut up in any separated place: but can remove millions of miles
in the twinkling of an eye.'--Scot, _Discovery_, Ap. II, p. 493.
=1. 2. 43 The burn't child dreads the fire.= Jonson is fond of
proverbial expressions.
