Gosson's _Pleasant
Quippes_
(1595) speaks of 'these
naked paps, the Devils ginnes.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
6. 72 These sister-swelling brests.= 'This is an
elegant and poetical rendering of the _sororiantes mammae_ of
the Latins, which Festus thus explains: _Sororiare puellarum
mammae dicuntur, cum primum tumescunt_.'--G.
=2. 6. 76 SN.= 'Liberties very similar to these were, in the poet's
time, permitted by ladies, who would have started at being told that
they had foregone all pretensions to delicacy.'--G.
The same sort of familiarity is hinted at in Stubbes, _Anatomy
of Abuses_ (Part 1, p. 78). Furnivall quotes _Histriomastix_
(Simpson's _School of Shak._ 2. 50) and _Vindication of Top
Knots_, Bagford Collection, 1. 124, in illustration of the
subject.
Gosson's _Pleasant
Quippes_
(1595) speaks of 'these
naked paps, the Devils ginnes.
' Cf. also _Cyn. Rev._, _Wks._
2. 266, and _Case is A._, _Wks._ 6. 330. It seems to have been
a favorite subject of attack at the hands of both Puritans and
dramatists.
=2. 6. 76 Downe to this valley.= Jonson uses a similar
figure in _Cyn. Rev.
