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128-32. Ovid, A.A.iii. 243-6:
Plays
Quae male crinita est custodem in hmme ponat,
orneturve Bonae semper in aede deae.
Dictus eram subito cuidam venisse puellae:
turbida perversas induit ilIa comas.
134. in complement. Dr. Henry illustrates from King John,1 . i. 189-
201.
143. Sicke o' the vncle. Modelled on 'sick of the mother' (hysteria).
Cf. Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, ed. 4, 1632, III.III. i, i, 'the
sonne and heire is commonly sicke of the father'.
144. his uncle. Theobald first pointed out that the name and character
of Morose were taken from the sixth or declamation of the
sophist Libanius: the speaker, a quiet man who hated noise, has had
his life wrecked by a loud, perpetually talking wife. He appears before
a court and asks the judges to let him drink hemlock and die. Jonson
used the 1597 edition of this declamation, issued at Paris with a Latin
translation by Morellus; Jonson's text occasionally shows traces of the
Latin (e.g. v. iii. 48-59).
turbant. The usual form in the seventeenth century; it lasted till the
nineteenth century. Johnson and Gibbon used 'turban' (O.E.D.).
145. night-caps. ' Sixteenth-century night caps were exclusively masculine
wear. Women wore coifs, kerchiefs, rails, pastes, &c. . . . These
caps were sometimes worn by old men on the street, but a "day worn
night-cap" usually indicated that the wearer was in ill health' (Linthicum,
Costume in the Drama, p. 227). Cf. W Cavendish (Newcastle), The
Humorous Lovers, I. ii (1677, p. 9), 'they say he wears such a Turbant
of Night-caps, that he is almost as tall as Grantham steeple.'
149-57. they say . . . Libanius, op. cit., p. 4:
150. Fish-wines. Dr. Henry quotes from Hindley's Cries of London
Turners Dish of Lenten Stuffe, or a Galymaufery, 1612 ?
The fish-wife first begins
Anye muscles lilly white ?
Herrings, sprats, or place,
Or cockles for delight,
Anye welflet oysters ?
Orange-women. Their cry is preserved in the old rhyme on St.
Clement Danes.
Oranges and lemons,
Say the bells of St. Clemens.
151. Chimney-sweepers. Dr. Henry quotes Deuteromeha: or, The
Second Part of pleasant Roundelayes, 1609: