No More Learning

'
--_Wks. _ 1. 140.

I have not been able to confirm Gifford's assertion.

=1. 3. 30 that's a popular error. = Gifford refers to _Othello_
5. 2. 286:

_Oth. _ I look down towards his feet,--but that's a fable. --
If that thou be'st a devil, I cannot kill thee.

Cf. also _The Virgin Martyr_, Dekker's _Wks. _ 4.
57:

--Ile tell you what now of the Divel;
He's no such horrid creature, cloven footed,
Black, saucer-ey'd, his nostrils breathing fire,
As these lying Christians make him.

=1. 3. 34 Of Derby-shire, S^r. about the Peake. = Jonson seems to have
been well acquainted with the wonders of the Peak of Derbyshire. Two of
his masques, _The Gipsies Metamorphosed_, acted first at Burleigh on
the Hill, and later at Belvoir, Nottinghamshire, and _Love's Welcome
at Welbeck_, acted in 1633 at Welbeck, Nottinghamshire, the seat of
William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, are full of allusions to them.
The Devil's Arse seems to be the cavern now known to travellers as the
_Peak_ or _Devil's Cavern_. It is described by Baedeker as upwards of
2,000 feet in extent. One of its features is a subterranean river known
as the Styx. The origin of the cavern's name is given in a coarse song
in the _Gypsies Met. _ (_Wks. _ 7. 357), beginning:

Cocklorrel would needs have the Devil his guest,
And bade him into the Peak to dinner.

In _Love's Welcome_ Jonson speaks again of 'Satan's sumptuous Arse',
_Wks. _ 8.