II, 4, 437.
VICE. INIQUITY. VANITY.
That reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years.
II, 4, 452.
In the old Morality plays, Iniquity was one of the vices, and generally played by a clown. In Marston’s “Histriomastix,” a stage direction adds, “Enter a roaring Devil with the Vice on its back. Iniquity in one hand and Juventus in the other.” “I’ll marry you to Lady Vanity,” another of the seven deadly sins, occurs in Marlowe’s “Jew of Malta.”
CRESSETS.
At my nativity
The front of heavy was full of fiery shapes of burning cressets.
III, 1, 15.
A vessel of iron or the like made to hold grease or oil, or in an iron basket to hold pitched rope, wood or coal, to be burnt for light. Cotgrave, in his French and English Dictionary, 1611, describes them under the word “falot,” a cresset light, such as they use in playhouses.