Note 688 — Chapter IX · THE SWORD-DANCE
Reading edition
Ben Jonson, The Gipsies Metamorphosed (ed. Cunningham, iii. 151):
‘Clod. They should be morris-dancers by their gingle, but they have no napkins.
‘Cockrel. No, nor a hobby-horse.
‘Clod. Oh, he’s often forgotten, that’s no rule; but there is no Maid Marian nor Friar amongst them, which is the surer mark.
‘Cockrel. Nor a fool that I see.’