200:
'Haue not many handsome legges in silke
stockins
villanous splay feet
for all their great roses?
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
= Dyce (_Remarks_, p. 289) quotes Webster, _White
Devil_, 1612:
--why, 'tis the devil;
I know him by a great rose he wears on's shoe,
To hide his cloven foot.
Cunningham adds a passage from Chapman, _Wks._ 3. 145:
_Fro._ Yet you cannot change the old fashion (they say)
And hide your cloven feet.
_Oph._ No! I can wear roses that shall spread quite
Over them.
Gifford quotes Nash, _Unfortunate Traveller_, _Wks._ 5. 146: 'Hee
hath in eyther shoo as much taffaty for his tyings, as would serue
for an ancient.' Cf. also Dekker, _Roaring Girle_, _Wks._ 3.
200:
'Haue not many handsome legges in silke
stockins
villanous splay feet
for all their great roses?
'
=1. 3. 13 My Cater.= Whalley changes to 'm'acter' on the authority
of the _Sad Shep._ (vol. 4. 236):
--Go bear 'em in to Much
Th' acater.
The form 'cater', however, is common enough. Indeed, if we are
to judge from the examples in Nares and _NED._, it is much the
more frequent, although the present passage is cited in both
authorities under the longer form.
