The
scansion
is thus indicated by Wilke
(_Metrische Untersuchungen_, p.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
= See
variants, and note 2. 2. 49, 50.
=4. 6. 49 A Phrentick.= See note 5. 8. 91-2.
=4. 7. 37-40.= See variants. Gifford silently follows Whalley's
changes, which are utterly unwarrantable. Cunningham points out the
wrong division in 37, 8.
The
scansion
is thus indicated by Wilke
(_Metrische Untersuchungen_, p.
3):
Of a/ most wor/thy gen/tleman./ Would one
Of worth/ had spoke/ it: whence/ it comes,/ it is
Rather/ a shame/ to me,/ ? then/ a praise.
The missing syllable in the third verse is compensated for by the
pause after the comma. This is quite in accordance with Jonson's
custom (see Wilke, p. 1 f.).
