124, in
illustration
of the
subject.
subject.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
=2. 6. 72 These sister-swelling brests. = 'This is an
elegant and poetical rendering of the _sororiantes mammae_ of
the Latins, which Festus thus explains: _Sororiare puellarum
mammae dicuntur, cum primum tumescunt_. '--G.
=2. 6. 76 SN. = 'Liberties very similar to these were, in the poet's
time, permitted by ladies, who would have started at being told that
they had foregone all pretensions to delicacy. '--G.
The same sort of familiarity is hinted at in Stubbes, _Anatomy
of Abuses_ (Part 1, p. 78). Furnivall quotes _Histriomastix_
(Simpson's _School of Shak. _ 2. 50) and _Vindication of Top
Knots_, Bagford Collection, 1.
124, in illustration of the
subject. Gosson's _Pleasant Quippes_ (1595) speaks of 'these
naked paps, the Devils ginnes. ' Cf. also _Cyn. Rev. _, _Wks. _
2. 266, and _Case is A. _, _Wks. _ 6. 330. It seems to have been
a favorite subject of attack at the hands of both Puritans and
dramatists.
=2. 6. 76 Downe to this valley. = Jonson uses a similar
figure in _Cyn.
