=5. 6. 68 to sindge your nayles off.= In the fool’s song in _Twelfth Night_ we have the exclamation to the devil: ‘paire thy nayles dad’ (Furness’s ed., p. 273). The editor quotes Malone: ‘The Devil was supposed from choice to keep his nails unpared, and therefore to pare them was an affront. So, in Camden’s _Remaines_, 1615: “I will follow mine owne minde, and mine old trade; who shall let me? the divel’s nailes are unparde.”’ Compare also _Henry V._ 4. 4. 76: ‘Bardolph and Nym had ten times more valor than this roaring devil i’ the old play, that every one may pare his nails with a wooden dagger.’ =5. 6. 76 The Diuell was wont to carry away the euill.= Eckhardt, p. 100, points out that Jonson’s etymology of the word _Vice_, which has been a matter of dispute, was the generally accepted one, that is, from _vice_ = evil. =5. 7. 1 Iustice Hall.= ‘The name of the Sessions-house in the Old Bailey.’--G. Strype, B. 3. p. 281 says that it was ‘a fair and stately building, very commodious for that affair.’ ‘It standeth backwards, so that it hath no front towards the street, only the gateway leading into the yard before the House, which is spacious. It cost above £6000 the building. And in this place the Lord Mayor, Recorder, the Aldermen and Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex do sit, and keep his Majesty’s Sessions of Oyer and Terminer.’ It was destroyed in the Gordon Riots of 1780.--Wh-C. =5. 7. 9 This strange!= See variants. The change seriously injures the metre, and the original reading should be preserved. Such absorptions (_this_ for _this is_ or _this’s_) are not uncommon. Cf. _Macbeth_ 3. 4. 17, ed. Furness, p. 165: ‘yet he’s good’ for ‘yet he is as good.’ =5. 8. 2 They had giu’n him potions.= Jonson perhaps had in mind the trial of Anne Turner and her accomplices in the Overbury Case of the previous year. See Introduction, p. lxxii. For a discussion of love-philtres see Burton, _Anat. of Mel._ (ed. Bullen), 3. 145 f. =5. 8. 33 with a Wanion.= This word is found only in the phrases ‘with a wanion,’ ‘in a wanion,’ and ‘wanions on you.’ It is a kind of petty imprecation, and occurs rather frequently in the dramatists, but its precise signification and etymology are still in doubt. Boswell, _Malone_, 21. 61, proposed a derivation from _winnowing_,‘a beating;’ Nares from _wanung_, Saxon, ‘detriment;’ Dyce (Ford’s _Wks._ 2. 291) from wan (vaande, Dutch, ‘a rod or wand’), ‘of which _wannie_ and _wannion_ are familiar diminutives.’ The _CD._ makes it a later form of ME. _waniand_, ‘a waning,’ spec. of the moon, regarded as implying ill luck.