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A good doting citizen, who, it is thought, might be of the common-council for his wealth; a fellow sincerely besotted on his own wife, and so wrapt with a conceit of her perfections, that he simply holds himself unworthy of her. And, in that hoodwinked humour, lives more like a suitor than a husband; standing in as true dread of her displeasure, as when he first made love to her. Fallace.
'Where, he cries, 'are the doctors of old times, the saints, the learning, charity, chastity of the past? The Church answers by displaying her rent raiment and wounded body, and by pointing to the cavern in which she has to make her home. 'Who, exclaims the poet, 'has wrought this wrong? Una fallace, superba meretrice Rome! Then indeed the passion of the novice breaks in fire:
Hence such strange appellatives as Sir Epicure Mammon, Sir Amorous La Foole, Morose, Wellbred, Downright, Fastidius Brisk, Volpone, Corbaccio, Sordido, and Fallace. After the Restoration, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Massinger were, for a time, more popular than Shakespeare; so that the label-names seemed to have the sanction of the giants that were before the Flood.
"Mais sa montagne est un sainct lieu: Qui viendra done au mont de Dieu? Qui est-ce qui la tiendra place? Le homine de mains et coeur lave, En vanite non esleve Et qui n'a jure en fallace." Marot wrote in his preface to the psalms:
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