Wright's
_Dialect Dictionary_ gives: '_Sough.
_Dialect Dictionary_ gives: '_Sough.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
1 f.
).
=4. 7. 45 Publication. = See 3. 3. 137.
=4. 7. 54 I sou't him. = See variants. Gifford says that he can make
nothing of _sou't_ but _sought_ and _sous'd_, and that he prefers the
latter. Dyce (_Remarks_) confidently asserts that the word is the
same as _shue_, 'to frighten away poultry,' and Cunningham accepts
this without question. There seems, however, to be no confirmation
for the theory that the preterit was ever spelt _sou't_.
Wright's
_Dialect Dictionary_ gives: '_Sough. _ 19. to strike; to beat
severely,' but the pronunciation here seems usually to be _souff_.
Professor Wright assures me that _sous'd_ is the correct reading,
and that the others are 'mere stupid guesses. '
=4. 7. 62 in possibility. = A legal phrase used of contingent
interests. See note 4. 6. 38, 9.
=4. 7. 65 Duke O' Shore-ditch. = 'A mock title of honour, conferred on
the most successful of the London archers, of which this account is
given:
When Henry VIII became king, he gave a prize at Windsor to those
who should excel at this exercise, (archery) when Barlo, one of
his guards, an inhabitant of Shoreditch, acquired such honor as an
archer, that the king created him _duke of Shoreditch_, on the spot.
This title, together with that of marquis of Islington, earl of
Pancridge, etc.
=4. 7. 45 Publication. = See 3. 3. 137.
=4. 7. 54 I sou't him. = See variants. Gifford says that he can make
nothing of _sou't_ but _sought_ and _sous'd_, and that he prefers the
latter. Dyce (_Remarks_) confidently asserts that the word is the
same as _shue_, 'to frighten away poultry,' and Cunningham accepts
this without question. There seems, however, to be no confirmation
for the theory that the preterit was ever spelt _sou't_.
Wright's
_Dialect Dictionary_ gives: '_Sough. _ 19. to strike; to beat
severely,' but the pronunciation here seems usually to be _souff_.
Professor Wright assures me that _sous'd_ is the correct reading,
and that the others are 'mere stupid guesses. '
=4. 7. 62 in possibility. = A legal phrase used of contingent
interests. See note 4. 6. 38, 9.
=4. 7. 65 Duke O' Shore-ditch. = 'A mock title of honour, conferred on
the most successful of the London archers, of which this account is
given:
When Henry VIII became king, he gave a prize at Windsor to those
who should excel at this exercise, (archery) when Barlo, one of
his guards, an inhabitant of Shoreditch, acquired such honor as an
archer, that the king created him _duke of Shoreditch_, on the spot.
This title, together with that of marquis of Islington, earl of
Pancridge, etc.
