8:
Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,
Whom he had cloy'd and grac'd with princely favors.
Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,
Whom he had cloy'd and grac'd with princely favors.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
38 turn'd my good affection.
= 'Not diverted or
changed its course; but, as appears from what follows, soured
it. The word is used in a similar sense by Shakespeare:
Has friendship such a faint and _milky_ heart,
It turns in less than two nights!
_Timon_, 3. 2. '--G.
=2. 8. 9, 10 That was your bed-fellow. = Ingine, perhaps in
anticipation of Fitzdottrel's advancement, employs a term usually
applied to the nobility. Cf. _K. Henry V. _ 2. 2.
8:
Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,
Whom he had cloy'd and grac'd with princely favors.
Steevens in a note on the passage points out that the familiar
appellation of _bedfellow_, which appears strange to us, was
common among the ancient nobility. ' He quotes from _A Knack
to know a Knave_, 1594; _Look about you_, 1600; _Cynthia's
Revenge_, 1613; etc. , where the expression is used in the sense
of 'intimate companion' and applied to nobles. Jonson uses the
term _chamberfellow_ in _Underwoods_, _Wks. _ 8. 353.
=2. 8. 20 An Academy. = With this passage compare _U. _ 62,
_Wks. _ 8. 412:
--There is up of late
The Academy, where the gallants meet--
What! to make legs? yes, and to smell most sweet:
All that they do at plays.
changed its course; but, as appears from what follows, soured
it. The word is used in a similar sense by Shakespeare:
Has friendship such a faint and _milky_ heart,
It turns in less than two nights!
_Timon_, 3. 2. '--G.
=2. 8. 9, 10 That was your bed-fellow. = Ingine, perhaps in
anticipation of Fitzdottrel's advancement, employs a term usually
applied to the nobility. Cf. _K. Henry V. _ 2. 2.
8:
Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,
Whom he had cloy'd and grac'd with princely favors.
Steevens in a note on the passage points out that the familiar
appellation of _bedfellow_, which appears strange to us, was
common among the ancient nobility. ' He quotes from _A Knack
to know a Knave_, 1594; _Look about you_, 1600; _Cynthia's
Revenge_, 1613; etc. , where the expression is used in the sense
of 'intimate companion' and applied to nobles. Jonson uses the
term _chamberfellow_ in _Underwoods_, _Wks. _ 8. 353.
=2. 8. 20 An Academy. = With this passage compare _U. _ 62,
_Wks. _ 8. 412:
--There is up of late
The Academy, where the gallants meet--
What! to make legs? yes, and to smell most sweet:
All that they do at plays.
