Lady Politick Would-be in the _Fox_
is of course
addicted
to the habit, and a good deal is said on the
subject in _Epicoene_.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
See also
Dekker, _Wks._ 3. 280.
=4. 2. 63 What vile Fucus is this.= The abuse of face-painting is
a favorite subject of satire with the moralists and dramatists of
the period. Stubbes (_Anatomy of Abuses_, Part 1, pp. 64-8) devotes
a long section to the subject. Dr. Furnivall in the notes to this
passage, pp. 271-3, should also be consulted. Brome satirizes it in
the _City Wit_, _Wks._ 2. 300.
Lady Politick Would-be in the _Fox_
is of course
addicted
to the habit, and a good deal is said on the
subject in _Epicoene_.
Dekker (_West-ward Hoe_, _Wks._ 2. 285) has
a passage quite similar in spirit to Jonson's satire.
=4. 2. 71 the very Infanta of the Giants!= Cf. Massinger and Field,
_Fatal Dowry_ 4. 1: 'O that I were the infanta queen of Europe!'
Pecunia in the _Staple of News_ is called the 'Infanta of the
mines.' Spanish terms were fashionable at this time. Cf. the use of
_Grandees_, 1. 3. It is possible that the reference here is to the
Infanta Maria.
