--There is up of late
The Academy, where the
gallants
meet--
What!
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
_ 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. O but first here
They learn and study; and then practice there.
Jonson again refers to 'the Academies' (apparently schools of
deportment or dancing schools) in 3. 5. 33.
