' It seems rather to mean 'roguish,' a
common
colloquial
use.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
' and Wilson, _The Cheats_,
Prologue:
No little pug nor devil,--bless us all!
=4. 4. 191, 2 What things they are? That nature should be at leasure=
=Euer to make 'hem!= Cf. _Ev. Man in_, _Wks._ 1. 119: 'O manners that
this age should bring forth such creatures! that nature should be at
leisure to make them!'
=4. 4. 197 Hee makes a wicked leg.= Gifford thinks that _wicked_ here
means 'awkward or clownish.
' It seems rather to mean 'roguish,' a
common
colloquial
use.
=4. 4. 201 A setled discreet pase.= Cf. 3. 5. 22; 2. 7. 33; and
Dekker, _Guls Horne-booke_, _Non-dram. Wks._ 2. 238: 'Walke
vp and downe by the rest as scornfully and as carelesly as a
Gentleman-Usher.'
