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The Works of John Marston. Volume 2

Note 129 — ACT I.[124]

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Cf. Dekker and Webster’s Northward Ho (1606), iv. 3:—

“Bell. But what say you to such gentlemen as these are?

“Bawd. Foh! they, as soon as they come to their lands, get up to London and like squibs that run upon lines, they keep a spitting of fire and cracking till they ha’ spent all; and when my squib is out what says his punk? foh, he stinks!”

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