We are on sounder ground of fact in recordingother manifestations of Jonson's enmity. O my senses,Why lost you not your powers, and becomeDull'd, if not deaded, with this spectacle?I know him, it is Sordido, the farmer,A boor, and brother to that swine was here.[ASIDE. One that never pray'd but for alean dearth, and ever wept in a fat harvest. SOG. MACI. A passage in the address of theformer play to the reader, in which Jonson refers to a collaboration in anearlier version, has led to the surmise that Shakespeare may have been that"worthier pen." Gentles, all I can say for him is, you arewelcome. How soon Jonson drifted into what we now call grandly "the theatricalprofession" we do not know. the knight they went to? Now, gentlemen, I goTo turn an actor, and a humorist,Where, ere I do resume my present person,We hope to make the circles of your eyesFlow with distilled laughter: if we fail,We must impute it to this only chance,Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.[EXIT. why that's the more for your credit, sir: it's an excellentpolicy to owe much in these days, if you note it. FUNGOSO, the son of Sordido, and a student; one that has revelled in histime, and follows the fashion afar off, like a spy. Keep 'em! ASP. LitCharts Teacher Editions. SOG. In "The Alchemist" Jonson represented, none theless to the life, certain sharpers of the metropolis, revelling in theirshrewdness and rascality and in the variety of the stupidity and wickednessof their victims. Themethod of personal attack by actual caricature of a person on the stage isalmost as old as the drama. as I would wish, as I would wish. A wiserinterpretation finds the "purge" in "Satiromastix," which, though notwritten by Shakespeare, was staged by his company, and therefore with hisapproval and under his direction as one of the leaders of that company. "Volpone" was laid as to scene in Venice. Here at least we are on certain ground; and the principals of the quarrelare known. Yes, if it be well prosecuted, 'tis hitherto happy enough: butmethinks Macilente went hence too soon; he might have been made to stay,and speak somewhat in reproof of Sordido's wretchedness now at the last. ", But continuing, Jonson is careful to add:"But that a rook by wearing a pied feather,The cable hat-band, or the three-piled ruff,A yard of shoe-tie, or the Switzers knotOn his French garters, should affect a humour!O, it is more than most ridiculous. Here personal satire seems to have absorbed everything,and while much of the caricature is admirable, especially in the detail ofwitty and trenchantly satirical dialogue, the central idea of a fountain ofself-love is not very well carried out, and the persons revert at times toabstractions, the action to allegory. Language: … It may be suspected that much of this furious clatter andgive-and-take was pure playing to the gallery. With respect toJonson's use of his material, Dryden said memorably of him: "[He] was notonly a professed imitator of Horace, but a learned plagiary of all theothers; you track him everywhere in their snow....But he has done hisrobberies so openly that one sees he fears not to be taxed by any law. Jonson always held Camden in veneration,acknowledging that to him he owed,"All that I am in arts, all that I know:"and dedicating his first dramatic success, "Every Man in His Humour," tohim. Marry, sir, one of the justice's men; he says 'tis a precept, andall their hands be at it. O good, good! Well, I will scourge those apes,And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror,As large as is the stage whereon we act;Where they shall see the time's deformityAnatomised in every nerve, and sinew,With constant courage, and contempt of fear. MIT. -- Drawers. MIT. "'Tis true; but, Stoic, where, in the vast world,Doth that man breathe, that can so much commandHis blood and his affection? It isfair to Jonson to remark however, that his adversary appears to have been anotorious fire-eater who had shortly before killed one Feeke in a similarsquabble. We recommend that you download .pdfs onto your mobile phone when it is connected to a WiFi connection for reading off-line. MIT. O, but to such whose faces are all zeal,And, with the words of Hercules, invadeSuch crimes as these! attentive auditors,Such as will join their profit with their pleasure,And come to feed their understanding parts:For these I'll prodigally spread myself,And speak away my spirit into air;For these, I'll melt my brain into invention,Coin new conceits, and hang my richest wordsAs polish'd jewels in their bounteous ears?But stay, I lose myself, and wrong their patience:If I dwell here, they'll not begin, I see.Friends, sit you still, and entertain this troopWith some familiar and by-conference,I'll hast them sound. --Do not I know the time's condition?Yes, Mitis, and their souls; and who they beThat either will or can except against me.None but a sort of fools, so sick in taste,That they contemn all physic of the mind,And like gall'd camels, kick at every touch.Good men, and virtuous spirits, that loath their vices,Will cherish my free labours, love my lines,And with the fervour of their shining graceMake my brain fruitful, to bring forth more objects,Worthy their serious and intentive eyes.But why enforce I this? Shakespeare had a finer conception of form, buteven he was contented to take all his ancient history from North'stranslation of Plutarch and dramatise his subject without further inquiry.Jonson was a scholar and a classical antiquarian. ----------------------------------------------. And the tone of many of these productionsdiscloses an affectionate familiarity that speaks for the amiablepersonality and sound worth of the laureate. • Text von Every Man out of His Humour mit einem erläuternden Vorwort von Felix Emanuel Schelling (1858–1945), Professor für englische Literatur an der University of Pennsylvania (PDF, 144 kB) [TURNING TO THE STAGE. Yet two touching epitaphsamong Jonson's 'Epigrams', "On my first daughter," and "On my first son,"attest the warmth of the poet's family affections. Several other plays have been thought to bear a greater or less part in thewar of the theatres. Takes up single testons upon oaths, till doomsday.Falls under executions of three shillings, and enters into five-groatbonds. O, but master,Take heed they hear you not. is't not strange?Unless his house and skin were thunder proof,I wonder at it! It was the failure of this play that caused Jonson to giveover writing for the public stage for a period of nearly ten years. On the mechanical and scenicside Jonson had an inventive and ingenious partner in Inigo Jones, theroyal architect, who more than any one man raised the standard of stagerepresentation in the England of his day. His profession is skeldring and odling, his bank Paul's, and hiswarehouse Picthatch. [ASIDE] -- I'll bethink me foryou, sir. In 1605, we find Jonson in active collaboration with Chapman and Marston inthe admirable comedy of London life entitled "Eastward Hoe." If you do not have Adobe Reader already installed on your computer, you can download the installer and instructions free from the Adobe Web site. MIT. O, this is your envious man, Macilente, I think. In chat with his friend William Drummond of Hawthornden, Jonsontold how "in his service in the Low Countries he had, in the face of boththe camps, killed an enemy, and taken 'opima spolia' from him;" and how"since his coming to England, being appealed to the fields, he had killedhis adversary which had hurt him in the arm and whose sword was ten incheslonger than his." this gentleman Sogliardo, and I, are to visit the knight Puntarvolo, and from thence to the city; we shall meet there. MIT. Both were menof the people, lowly born and hardly bred. MIT. Hehas made a play here, and he calls it, 'Every Man out of his Humour': butan he get me out of the humour he has put me in, I'll trust none of histribe again while I live. Many people prefer to read off-line or to print out text and read from the real printed page. -- Waiting Gent. MACILENTE, a man well parted, a sufficient scholar, and travelled; who,wanting that place in the world's account which he thinks his merit capableof, falls into such an envious apoplexy, with which his judgment is sodazzled and distasted, that he grows violently impatient of any oppositehappiness in another. The lord of the soil has all wefts and strays here, has he not? [LIES DOWN. MIT. Createspace, United States, 2015. What, are you ready there? good, good, good, good, good!I thank my stars, I thank my stars for it. Signior, you are well encountered; how is it?O, we must not regard what he says, man, a trout, a shallow fool, he has nomore brain than a butterfly, a mere stuft suit; he looks like a mustybottle new wicker'd, his head's the cork, light, light! how comes it then, that in some one play we see so many seas,countries, and kingdoms, passed over with such admirable dexterity? CAR. have the humourists exprestthemselves truly or no? SOG. of Scotland,"and "Richard Crookback." To Jonson have also been attributed additions to Kyd's Jeronymo, andcollaboration in The Widow with Fletcher and Middleton, and in the BloodyBrother with Fletcher. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. Faith, if the time will suffer his description, I'll give it you. That fortune favours! And, in that hood-wink'd humour, lives more likea suitor than a husband; standing in as true dread of her displeasure, aswhen he first made love to her. "Viri est, fortunae caecitatem facile ferre." These comedies,with "Bartholomew Fair," 1614, represent Jonson at his height, and forconstructive cleverness, character successfully conceived in the manner ofcaricature, wit and brilliancy of dialogue, they stand alone in Englishdrama. [EXIT WITH SOGLIARDO. This play as afabric of plot is a very slight affair; but as a satirical picture of themanners of the time, proceeding by means of vivid caricature, couched inwitty and brilliant dialogue and sustained by that righteous indignationwhich must lie at the heart of all true satire -- as a realisation, inshort, of the classical ideal of comedy -- there had been nothing likeJonson's comedy since the days of Aristophanes. Thecircumstance that the poet could read and write saved him; and he receivedonly a brand of the letter "T," for Tyburn, on his left thumb. For God's sake let's be gone; an he be a scholar, you know I cannotabide him; I had as lieve see a cockatrice, specially as cockatrices go now. CAR. SOG. MACI. Duelling was a frequent occurrence of the time among gentlemenand the nobility; it was an imprudent breach of the peace on the part of aplayer. No! CAR. COR. You have seen his play, Cordatus: pray you, how is it? Heusurps upon cheats, quarrels, and robberies, which he never did, only toget him a name. when the conscienceIs vaster than the ocean, and devoursMore wretches than the counters. Das Stück gehört zu den sogenannten „Humour Comedies“, die auch eine englische Entwicklung sind. FAST. Forbear, good Asper; be not like your name. Methinks, jester, you should not relish this well. But Jonson was on soundhistorical ground, for "Volpone" is conceived far more logically on thelines of the ancients' theory of comedy than was ever the romantic drama ofShakespeare, however repulsive we may find a philosophy of life thatfacilely divides the world into the rogues and their dupes, and,identifying brains with roguery and innocence with folly, admires theformer while inconsistently punishing them. PROL. O, 'tis most vile. ASP. This duel is the one which Jonson described years after toDrummond, and for it Jonson was duly arraigned at Old Bailey, tried, andconvicted. methinks'Tis rare, and strange, that he should breathe and walk,Feed with digestion, sleep, enjoy his health,And, like a boisterous whale swallowing the poor,Still swim in wealth and pleasure! "Indeed Jonson went further when he came to revise his plays for collected publication in his folio of 1616, he transferred the scene of "Every Man in His Humour" from Florence to London also, converting Signior Lorenzo di Pazzi to OldKno'well, Prospero to Master Welborn, and Hesperida to Dame Kitely"dwelling i' the Old Jewry.". Better with similes than smiles: and whither were you riding now,signior? and begin.I leave you two, as censors, to sit here:Observe what I present, and liberallySpeak your opinions upon every scene,As it shall pass the view of these spectators.Nay, now y'are tedious, sirs; for shame begin.And, Mitis, note me; if in all this frontYou can espy a gallant of this mark,Who, to be thought one of the judicious,Sits with his arms thus wreath'd, his hat pull'd here,Cries mew, and nods, then shakes his empty head,Will shew more several motions in his faceThan the new London, Rome, or Niniveh,And, now and then, breaks a dry biscuit jest,Which, that it may more easily be chew'd,He steeps in his own laughter. Nay, I will examine him before I go, sure. When Jonson died there was a project for a handsome monument to his memory.But the Civil War was at hand, and the project failed. CAR. but as lameAs Vulcan, or the founder of Cripplegate. Others want to carry documents around with them on their mobile phones and read while they are on the move. COR. So you'll infer it had been hate, not envy in him, to reprehend thehumour of Sordido? SOG. According to the author's own account, this playwas written in fifteen weeks on a report that his enemies had entrusted toDekker the preparation of "Satiromastix, the Untrussing of the HumorousPoet," a dramatic attack upon himself. Why, and for my wealth I might be a justice of peace. He told Drummond that "theEarl of Pembroke sent him £20 every first day of the new year to buy newbooks." And yet many of Jonson's lyrics will live as long asthe language. SOG. Jonson's theory of authorship involved a wideacquaintance with books and "an ability," as he put it, "to convert thesubstance or riches of another poet to his own use." CAR. There is no evidence to determine the matter. What bright-shining gallant's that with them? an you knew him asI do, you'd shun him as you would do the plague. 37 Full PDFs related to this paper. he came in oars, whenhe was but wafted over in a sculler. An interestingsidelight is this on the character of this redoubtable and rugged satirist,that he should thus have befriended and tenderly remembered these littletheatrical waifs, some of whom (as we know) had been literally kidnapped tobe pressed into the service of the theatre and whipped to the conning oftheir difficult parts. In "Poetaster," he lifts awhole satire out of Horace and dramatises it effectively for his purposes.The sophist Libanius suggests the situation of "The Silent Woman"; a Latincomedy of Giordano Bruno, "Il Candelaio," the relation of the dupes and thesharpers in "The Alchemist," the "Mostellaria" of Plautus, its admirableopening scene. CAR. And, though that inhim this kind of poem appeared absolute, and fully perfect, yet how is theface of it changed since, in Menander, Philemon, Cecilius, Plautus, and therest! Among severalsuggestions, "Troilus and Cressida" has been thought by some to be the playin which Shakespeare thus "put down" his friend, Jonson. These, too, and the earlier years of Charleswere the days of the Apollo Room of the Devil Tavern where Jonson presided,the absolute monarch of English literary Bohemia. And there, whileyou intend circumstances of news, or enquiry of their health, or so, one ofyour familiars whom you must carry about you still, breaks it up, as 'twerein a jest, and reads it publicly at the table: at which you must seem totake as unpardonable offence, as if he had torn your mistress's colours, orbreath'd upon her picture, and pursue it with that hot grace, as if youwould advance a challenge upon it presently. But if Jonson had deserted the stage after the publication of his folio andup to the end of the reign of King James, he was far from inactive; foryear after year his inexhaustible inventiveness continued to contribute tothe masquing and entertainment at court. Download Every Man Out of His Humour Books now!Available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. The dramatic impact of this moment is immediate and stunning. ", Jonson's comedy of humours, in a word, conceived of stage personages on thebasis of a ruling trait or passion (a notable simplification of actual lifebe it observed in passing); and, placing these typified traits injuxtaposition in their conflict and contrast, struck the spark of comedy.Downright, as his name indicates, is "a plain squire"; Bobadill's humour isthat of the braggart who is incidentally, and with delightfully comiceffect, a coward; Brainworm's humour is the finding out of things to theend of fooling everybody: of course he is fooled in the end himself. INTRODUCTION. Jonson was honoured with degrees by both universities, thoughwhen and under what circumstances is not known. You must talk much of your kindred and allies. To the caricature of Daniel and Munday in"Cynthia's Revels" must be added Anaides (impudence), here assuredlyMarston, and Asotus (the prodigal), interpreted as Lodge or, moreperilously, Raleigh. CAR. 'slid, stay: this is worse and worse: What says he of St. Swithin's?turn back, look, "saint Swithin's: no rain!". I see not then, but we should enjoy the same license, or free powerto illustrate and heighten our invention, as they did; and not be tied tothose strict and regular forms which the niceness of a few, who are nothingbut form, would thrust upon us. H. C. Hart(Standard Library), 1906, etc; Plays and Poems, with Introduction by H.Morley (Universal Library), 1885; Plays (7) and Poems (Newnes), 1905;Poems, with Memoir by H. Bennett (Carlton Classics), 1907; Masques andEntertainments, ed. COR. The last word isperhaps Henslowe's thrust at Jonson in his displeasure rather than adesignation of his actual continuance at his trade up to this time. COR. "June, July?". COR. MAC. Every Man Out of His Humour followed Jonson's play Every Man In His Humour. HIND. Heis one, the author calls him Carlo Buffone, an impudent common jester, aviolent railer, and an incomprehensible epicure; one whose company isdesired of all men, but beloved of none; he will sooner lose his soul thana jest, and profane even the most holy things, to excite laughter: nohonourable or reverend personage whatsoever can come within the reach ofhis eye, but is turned into all manner of variety, by his adulteratesimiles. He willborrow another man's horse to praise, and backs him as his own. Ofthem, and then, that I say no more, it was not despised. "Yet even now a book turns up from time to time in which is inscribed, infair large Italian lettering, the name, Ben Jonson. I'll observe this better.[ASIDE. No, I assure you, signior. No; but I fear this will procure him much envy. Jonson believed that there was a professional way of doing thingswhich might be reached by a study of the best examples, and he found theseexamples for the most part among the ancients. ASP. In 1593 Marlowe made his tragic exit fromlife, and Greene, Shakespeare's other rival on the popular stage, hadpreceded Marlowe in an equally miserable death the year before.Shakespeare already had the running to himself. Helen Ostovich. Or, for aneed, on foot can post himself into credit with his merchant, only with thegingle of his spur, and the jerk of his wand. So in every human body,The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood,By reason that they flow continuallyIn some one part, and are not continent,Receive the name of humours. COR. We hear of a roomblazoned about with Jonson's own judicious 'Leges Convivales' in letters ofgold, of a company made up of the choicest spirits of the time, devotedlyattached to their veteran dictator, his reminiscences, opinions,affections, and enmities. The lyric and especially the occasional poetry of Jonson has a peculiarmerit. COR. Andwhat could have been the nature of this "purge"? COR. Book Condition: New. It is doubtful whether Jonson ever went to either university, though Fuller says that he was "statutably admitted into St. John's College, Cambridge." In "The Case is Altered" there isclear ridicule in the character Antonio Balladino of Anthony Munday,pageant-poet of the city, translator of romances and playwright as well.In "Every Man in His Humour" there is certainly a caricature of SamuelDaniel, accepted poet of the court, sonneteer, and companion of men offashion. DRAMAS. Nay, look you, Carlo; this is my humour now! O, I would know 'em; for in such assembliesThey are more infectious than the pestilence:And therefore I would give them pills to purge,And make them fit for fair societies.How monstrous and detested is't to seeA fellow that has neither art nor brain,Sit like an Aristarchus, or start ass,Taking men's lines with a tobacco face,In snuff still spitting, using his wry'd looks,In nature of a vice, to wrest and turnThe good aspect of those that shall sit near him,From what they do behold! What a silly jest's that! MIT. Slight and hastilyadapted as is "Satiromastix," especially in a comparison with the betterwrought and more significant satire of "Poetaster," the town awarded thepalm to Dekker, not to Jonson; and Jonson gave over in consequence hispractice of "comical satire." O, that sets the stronger seal on his desert: if he had no enemies,I should esteem his fortunes most wretched at this instant. A happy comparisonhas been suggested between Ben Jonson and Charles Dickens. MIT. Both men were at heart moralists, seeking the truth bythe exaggerated methods of humour and caricature; perverse, evenwrong-headed at times, but possessed of a true pathos and largeness ofheart, and when all has been said -- though the Elizabethan ran to satire,the Victorian to sentimentality -- leaving the world better for the artthat they practised in it. Complete summary of Ben Jonson's Every Man out of His Humour. I love him the better for that. Here's a cup of winesparkles like a diamond. Jonson and his Contemporaries Jonson’s artistic detachment from most of his contemporaries was radical and he stood apart from the mainstream of Elizabethan literature Held greatest contempt for writers like Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel, Sir John Davies, Thomas Dekker, … A. Symonds, with Biographical and Critical Essay,(Canterbury Poets), 1886; Grosart, Brave Translunary Things, 1895; Arber,Jonson Anthology, 1901; Underwoods, Cambridge University Press, 1905;Lyrics (Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher), the Chap Books, No. "August 1, 2, 3, and 4,days, rainy and blustering:" this is well now: "5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, rainy,with some thunder;" Ay marry, this is excellent; the other was falseprinted sure: "the 10 and 11, great store of rain"; O good, good, good,good, good! you are too timorous, and full of doubt.Then he, a patient, shall reject all physic,'Cause the physician tells him, you are sick:Or, if I say, that he is vicious,You will not hear of virtue. See how the strumpet fortune tickles him,And makes him swoon with laughter, O, O, O! Between Jonson and Chapman there was thekinship of similar scholarly ideals. ASP. 'Tis true; but why should we observe them, Asper? Their glory is to invite players, and makesuppers. All this points to an association withHenslowe of some duration, as no mere tyro would be thus paid in advanceupon mere promise. ), fol., 1631; TheDivell is an Asse, fol., 1631; The Staple of Newes, fol., 1631; The NewSun, 8vo, 1631, fol., 1692; The Magnetic Lady, or Humours Reconcild, fol.,1640; A Tale of a Tub, fol., 1640; The Sad Shepherd, or a Tale of RobinHood, fol., 1641; Mortimer his Fall (fragment), fol., 1640. Now that theprinter, by a doubled charge, thinks it worthy a longer life than commonlythe air of such things doth promise, I am careful to put it a servant totheir pleasures, who are the inheritors of the first favour born it. Masques and Entertainments were published in the early folios. -- Constable, and Officers.GREX. Oh, 'tis Macilente! From him Ben Jonson takes his Carlo Buffone ['i.e. In this attempt to forestall hisenemies Jonson succeeded, and "Poetaster" was an immediate and deservedsuccess. CAR. Jonson's reach may have made up for the lack of hissword; certainly his prowess lost nothing in the telling. An I do, let me die poisoned with some venomous hiss, and never liveto look as high as the two-penny room again.[EXIT. 229 x 152 mm. But he "prosecuted" what he calls "his wonted studies" withsuch assiduity that he became in reality, as by report, one of the mostlearned men of his time. "The 20, 21, 22 days, rain and wind." COR. -- See Memoirs affixed to Works; J. MITIS, is a person of no action, and therefore we afford him no character. Why, therein I commend your careful thoughts,And I will mix with you in industryTo please: but whom? But when the gown and cap isoff, and the lord of liberty reigns, then, to take it in your hands,perhaps may make some bencher, tincted with humanity, read and not repenthim. If those laws you speak of had beendelivered us 'ab initio', and in their present virtue and perfection, therehad been some reason of obeying their powers; but 'tis extant, that thatwhich we call 'Comoedia', was at first nothing but a simple and continuedsong, sung by one only person, till Susario invented a second; after him,Epicharmus a third; Phormus and Chionides devised to have four actors, witha prologue and chorus; to which Cratinus, long after, added a fifth andsixth: Eupolis, more; Aristophanes, more than they; every man in thedignity of his spirit and judgment supplied something. FVEG4BY6LMSY » Kindle » Every Man Out of His Humour (Paperback) Download eBook EVERY MAN OUT OF HIS HUMOUR (PAPERBACK) Download PDF Every Man Out of His Humour (Paperback) Authored by Ben Jonson Released at 2015 Filesize: 3.29 MB To read the file, you need Adobe Reader software program. ASPER, he is of an ingenious and free spirit, eager and constant inreproof, without fear controlling the world's abuses. In 1592, Jonson returned from abroad penniless. There is no taste in this philosophy; 'Tis like a potion that a man should drink, But turns his stomach with the sight of it. The third and last of the "comical satires" is "Poetaster," acted, oncemore, by the Children of the Chapel in 1601, and Jonson's only avowedcontribution to the fray. As to thepersonages actually ridiculed in "Every Man Out of His Humour," CarloBuffone was formerly thought certainly to be Marston, as he was describedas "a public scurrilous, and profane jester," and elsewhere as the grandscourge or second untruss [that is, satirist], of the time" (Joseph Hallbeing by his own boast the first, and Marston's work being entitled "TheScourge of Villainy"). Lastly of this group comes the tremendous comedy,"Bartholomew Fair," less clear cut, less definite, and less structurallyworthy of praise than its three predecessors, but full of the keenest andcleverest of satire and inventive to a degree beyond any English comedysave some other of Jonson's own. my lordship? I am no such pill'd Cynick to believe, That beggary is the only happiness; Or with a number of these patient fools, Every Man Out of his HumourDownload options, Ben Johnson's Every Man Out of his Humour for your kindle, tablet, IPAD, PC or mobile.Download the Every Man Out of his Humour ebook free. Despite his many real virtues, if there is one featuremore than any other that distinguishes Jonson, it is his arrogance; and tothis may be added his self-righteousness, especially under criticism orsatire. I UNDERSTAND you, Gentlemen, not your houses: and a worthy succession ofyou, to all time, as being born the judges of these studies. Imar'le whose wit it was to put a prologue in yond' sackbut's mouth; theymight well think he'd be out of tune, and yet you'd play upon him too. But it is a mistake to infer, becauseShakespeare's name stands first in the list of actors and the elderKno'well first in the 'dramatis personae', that Shakespeare took thatparticular part. Troth, I can discern no such necessity. It included likewise a book of some hundred and thirtyodd 'Epigrams', in which form of brief and pungent writing Jonson was anacknowledged master; "The Forest," a smaller collection of lyric andoccasional verse and some ten 'Masques' and 'Entertainments'. SHIFT, a thread-bare shark; one that never was a soldier, yet lives uponlendings. To disparage his memory by citingthem is a preposterous use of scholarship. well, 'tisgood, when it can be no better. Though a poor man,Jonson was an indefatigable collector of books. CAR. 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