Cunningham
believes
'stoter' to be a
cheap coin current in the camps.
cheap coin current in the camps.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
30 I' the Low-countries.
= 'Then went he to the Low Countries;
but returning soone he betook himself to his wonted studies. In his
service in the Low Countries, he had, in the face of both the campes,
killed ane enemie and taken _opima spolia_ from him. '--_Conversations
with William Drummond_, _Wks. _ 9. 388.
In the Epigram _To True Soldiers_ Jonson says:
--I love
Your great profession, which I once did prove.
_Wks. _ 8. 211.
=3. 3. 32 a wench of a stoter! = See variants. The word is
not perfectly legible in the folios, which I have consulted, but
is undoubtedly as printed.
Cunningham believes 'stoter' to be a
cheap coin current in the camps. This supplies a satisfactory
sense, corresponding to the '_Sutlers_ wife, . . . of two blanks'
in the following line.
=3. 3. 33 of two blanks! = 'Jonson had Horace in his
thoughts, and has, not without some ingenuity, parodied several
loose passages of one of his satires. '--G. Gifford is apparently
referring to the close of Bk. 2. Sat. 3.
=3. 3.
but returning soone he betook himself to his wonted studies. In his
service in the Low Countries, he had, in the face of both the campes,
killed ane enemie and taken _opima spolia_ from him. '--_Conversations
with William Drummond_, _Wks. _ 9. 388.
In the Epigram _To True Soldiers_ Jonson says:
--I love
Your great profession, which I once did prove.
_Wks. _ 8. 211.
=3. 3. 32 a wench of a stoter! = See variants. The word is
not perfectly legible in the folios, which I have consulted, but
is undoubtedly as printed.
Cunningham believes 'stoter' to be a
cheap coin current in the camps. This supplies a satisfactory
sense, corresponding to the '_Sutlers_ wife, . . . of two blanks'
in the following line.
=3. 3. 33 of two blanks! = 'Jonson had Horace in his
thoughts, and has, not without some ingenuity, parodied several
loose passages of one of his satires. '--G. Gifford is apparently
referring to the close of Bk. 2. Sat. 3.
=3. 3.