= Walking-sticks of various sorts are
mentioned during the
sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
204 his Valley is beneath the waste.= 'Waist' and 'waste' were
both spelled _waste_ or _wast_. Here, of course, is a pun on the two
meanings.
=4. 4. 206 Dulnesse vpon you! Could not you hit this?= Cf. _Bart.
Fair_, _Wks._ 4. 358: 'Now dullness upon me, that I had not that
before him.'
=4. 4. 209 the French sticke.
= Walking-sticks of various sorts are
mentioned during the
sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
'In Chas.
II.'s time the French walking-stick, with a ribbon and tassels to
hold it when passed over the wrist, was fashionable, and continued
so to the reign of George II.' (Planche).
=4. 4. 215, 6 report the working, Of any Ladies physicke.= In
Lenton's _Leasures_ (see note 4.4.134) we find: 'His greatest
vexation is going upon sleevelesse arrands, to know whether some lady
slept well last night, or how her physick work'd i' th' morning,
things that savour not well with him; the reason that ofttimes he
goes but to the next taverne, and then very discreetly brings her
home a tale of a tubbe.'
Cf. also B. & Fl., _Fair Maid of the Inn_ 2. 2: '_Host.
