= The conception of
this couplet and the lines which
Fitzdottrel
speaks below was later
elaborated in Cocklorrel's song in the _Gipsies Metamorphosed_.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
= 'In some of our old dictionaries,
_fid_ is explained to caulk with oakum: figgum, or fig'em, may
therefore be a vulgar derivative from this term, and signify the
lighted flax or tow with which jugglers stuff their mouths when
they prepare to amuse the rustics by breathing out smoke and
flames:
--a nut-shell
With tow, and touch-wood in it, to spite fire (5. 3. 4. 5).'
--G.
=5. 8. 86, 7 to such a foole, He makes himselfe.= For the omission of
the relative adverb cf. 1. 3. 34, 35.
=5. 8. 89 To come to dinner, in mee the sinner.
= The conception of
this couplet and the lines which
Fitzdottrel
speaks below was later
elaborated in Cocklorrel's song in the _Gipsies Metamorphosed_.
Pluto
in Dekker's _If this be not a good Play_, _Wks._ 3. 268, says that
every devil should have 'a brace of whores to his breakfast.' Such
ideas seem to be descended from the mediaeval allegories of men like
Raoul de Houdanc, Ruteboeuf, etc.
=5. 8. 91, 2 Are you phrenticke, Sir, Or what graue dotage moues
you.= 'Dotage, fatuity, or folly, is a common name to all the
following species, as some will have it.... _Phrenitis_, which the
Greeks derive from the word ????
