A heavy purse, and then two turtles, makes.—
'Makes', frequent in old books, and even now used in some counties for mates, or pairs.
Ib. sc. 3. Host's speech:—
—And for a leap
O' the vaulting horse, to play the vaulting house.—
Instead of reading with Whalley 'ply' for 'play,' I would suggest 'horse' for 'house.' The meaning would then be obvious and pertinent. The punlet, or pun-maggot, or pun intentional, 'horse and house,' is below Jonson. The 'jeu-de-mots' just below—
Read a lecture
Upon Aquinas at St. Thomas à Waterings—
had a learned smack in it to season its insipidity.
Ib. sc. 6. Lovel's speech:—
Then shower'd his bounties on me, like the Hours,
That open-handed sit upon the clouds,
And press the liberality of heaven
Down to the laps of thankful men!
Like many other similar passages in Jonson, this is {Greek (transliterated): eidos chalepon idein}—a sight which it is difficult to make one's self see,—a picture my fancy cannot copy detached from the words.