' Such
ideas seem to be descended from the
mediaeval
allegories of men like
Raoul de Houdanc, Ruteboeuf, etc.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
'
--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 ????, is a disease of the mind, with a
continual madness or dotage, which hath an acute fever annexed, or
else an inflammation of the brain, or the membranes or kells of it,
with an acute fever, which causeth madness and dotage.'--Burton,
_Anat. of Mel._, ed.
