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INDEX

Absorption of a syllable, 174, 208.

Academy, 174-5, 188.

Actors, Jonson’s allusions to, 175.

Adders, 126.

Aesop, _Fables_ of, 185.

Africa, 149.

After-game, 201.

Agrippa, Cornelius, lxiv.

Allegorical treatment of drama, xx f.

Allot, Robert, 124.

Allum Scagliola, 192.

Almaine-leap, 137.

Almanac-men, 156-7.

Almoiavana, 196.

America, 149.

Apperil, 205.

Aqua-vitæ, 158.

Aristophanes, xli, lxvi, lxxvi, lxxix; _Clouds_, 202; _Plutus_, 211.

Art, man of, 149.

Arthur’s show, 159.

Artillery-ground, 177.

Astrology, 199.

Bacon, lxiii.

Ballad literature, xxvii.

Banqueting-house, Lord Mayor’s, 201.

Bare head of usher and coachman, 164, 196, 198.

Baudissin, Count von, _Ben Jonson und seine Schule_, xxii.

Bawdy, talk, 197.

Beare, the, 124.

Beaumont and Fletcher, _Elder Brother_, lvi; _King and No King_, lvii.

Bedfellow, 174.

_Belfagor_, Novella of, xxx ff.

Belphegor, xxxii.

Benefit, make, 163.

Benjamin, 192.

Benson, John, 124.

Bermudas, 161, 182.

Bethlehem Royal Hospital, 203.

Billiard ball, 173.

Billingsgate, 134.

Bilson, boy of, 205.

Blackfriars, painters at, 156; theatre, xvii, 150.

Blank, 181.

Bless us! 197.

Blown roses, 179.

Blue coats, 183.

Boccaccio, _Decameron_, xlv ff., lxxv.

Bodin, lxiv.

Borachio, 159.

Braganza, 196.

Breasts exposed, 173.

Bretnor, 141.

Bristo-stone, 184.

Brokers, 140.

Brome, _Antipodes_, lxii; _Court Beggar_, lxi, lxxv.

Browne, Sir Thomas, lxiii.

Buckingham. See Villiers.

Buckram bag, 159.

Bullions, 185-6.

Burton, boy of, 203, 205.

Business (quarrel), 182.

Butler, Samuel, _Characters_, lxii.

By cause, 205.

Caract, 153.

Caroch, carroch, 155, 190.

Carranza, Jerome, _Filosofia de las Armas_, lv.

Cataputia, 193.

Cater, 146.

Cautelous, 154.

Centlivre, Mrs., _Busie Body_, lxxv.

Chains, gold, 183.

Chamberfellow, 174.

Character-drama, xliv.

Cheapside, 178; Standard in, 131.

Cheaters, 207.

Cheat on, 207.

Cheats, 156.

Cheese-trenchers, 126.

Chopines, see Cioppinos.

Chrysippus, _de Divinitione_, 145.

Cioppinos, liii, 186-7, 194.

Circles, magic, 145.

Cloak, long, of fool, xxxix.

Cloven foot, 146-7.

Clown, xxiii, xxv f.

Coaches, 156.

Coachman, 190, 198.

Coke, Sir Edward, xviii, lxvi ff., lxx ff.

Cokeley, 135.

Cokes, 164.

Commissioners, 190.

Compounds, Jonson’s use of, 181.

Compters, 177.

Conduits, 201.

Confute, 206.

Conjurers, 145.

Constable, 209.

Contrasted characters, xliv.

Cord as charm, 128.

Corncutter, 199.

Cornhill, 178.

Cornish counterfeit, 184.

Coryat, _Crudities_, liii, 194, 204.

Cosmetics, 192.

Courts of Love, 153.

Covetuousness (in morality plays), 130.

Coxcomb and Coverlet, 209.

Cranes, Three, 135.

Crisped groves, 173.

Crowland, 164; monastery at, lx.

Crystals, 144.

Cuckold and devil, joke on, 208.

Cushman, Dr. L. W., xxii, xxxiv, et passim.

Custard, 137.

Custom-house key, 134.

Cut-work, 140, 162.

Dagger, wooden, xxxix; ordinary, 134.

Darling, Thomas, 203.

Darrel, John, xxxii, xlix ff., 203.

Date of play, xvii.

Decimo sexto, 193.

Defeat, do, 168.

Dekker, _If this be not a good Play_, xxix ff., xxxi.

Demoniacal possession, xlix.

Dependencies, see Master of Dependencies.

Derbyshire Peak, 147.

Despenser, Hugh le, 165.

Devil, in pre-Shakespearian drama, xxii f.; Jonson’s treatment of, xxiii f.; costume of, xxiv; stupid, xxvii; carried in a ring, 126; leaves an evil odor, 211; divers names of, 145; ill omen to pronounce the name of, 197; dines on sinners, 211; speaks languages, 211; takes tobacco, 209; travels swiftly, 145.

Devil-plot, xx ff.

Devil’s Cavern in Derbyshire, 147.

Devil’s dam, 188.

Digby miracle-plays, xxiii.

Dining, hour of, 188.

Dinner, inviting poet to, 189.

Dotage, 211.

Dottrel, 163, 175, 200.

Double cloak, 189.

Doublet bombasted, 131.

Dueling, liv ff.

Dukes in England, 160.

Dutch in England, 133.

Dwindle, 193.

Eckhardt, Dr. E., xxii, xxxiv, et passim.

Edition of 1631, xi ff.; 1641, xiv; 1692, xiv; 1716, xv; 1729, xi; 1756, xv; 1811, xi; 1816, xvi f.; 1838, xi; 1871, xi; 1875, xvii.

Eitherside identified as Coke, lxxi f.

E-la, 205.

Ellipsis before _that_, 174.

Engendering by the eyes, 163.

Equivokes, 184.

Escudero, 195.

Estifania, Lady, 193.

Ethical treatment of drama, xliv.

Exchange, Royal, 158.

Face-painting, 190-1.

Fair and foul, 163.

Favor, under, 146.

Fencing-schools, lv.

Fens of Lincolnshire, lix ff.

Fern ashes, 192.

Figgum, 210.

Finsbury, 178.

Fitzdottrel, xlii; identified as Coke, lxx f.; Mrs., identified as Lady Hatton, lxvi ff.

Fleas, keep, within a circle, 202.

Fly-blown, 174.

Fool, union with Vice, xxxv, xxxviii; domestic, xxxix; tavern, xl; city, xl; in Jonson’s other works, xl.

Ford, _Fancies Chaste and Noble_, lvi.

Forked top, 163.

Forks, liii, 204.

Forman, Simon, 141-3, 175.

Foul and fowl, 163.

Francklin, xviii, 142-3.

Fraud (character in morality-play), 130.

French hood, 138; masks, 161; time, 188; walking-stick, 199.

Friar Bacon, xxvii.

Friar Rush, xxvii ff., xxxiv, xlix.

Frolics, 175.

Fucus, 190.

Galley-pot, 193.

Garnish, 206.

Garters, 139-40, 168.

Geere, 154.

Gentleman usher, 125, 187, 195-6, 198.

Gentlemen of the Sword, lvii.

Gifford, his opinion of the 1631 Folio, xiii; criticism of _Devil is an Ass_, lxxvi; _Ben Jonson’s Malignity_, 166.

Gilchrist, O., _Examination ... of Ben Jonson’s Enmity_, etc., 166.

Globe theatre, 180.

Gloucester, 165-7.

Godfathers in law, 205.

Godwit, 179.

Gogs-nownes, 130.

Goldsmiths, 124-5.

Goldsmith’s Row, 187.

Good (sufficient), 176.

Good time! 148.

Grandees, 125.

Greek, devil talks in, li.

Greenland, 167.

Gresham, astrologer, 141; Sir Thomas, 158.

_Grim, Collier of Croydon_, xxvi, xxxii f.

Groen-land, see Greenland.

Guarda-duenna, 195.

Hall’s _Chronicle_, 166.

Hand-gout, 182.

Hanging for theft, 206-7.

Harlequin, 131.

Harrington, 160.

Harrison, Thomas, 205.

_Harrowing of Hell_, xxiii.

Harsnet, Samuel, xlix ff.

Hatton, Lady Elizabeth, lxvi ff., lxx f.

Have with ’em, 190.

Havings, 182.

Henry, Prince, lxiv.

Herford, _Studies_, xx, et passim; criticism of _Devil is an Ass_, lxxvi.

Heywood, John, farces of, xxxvi f.

Ho! Ho! xxiii, 127.

Hogsdon, 128.

_Holland’s Leaguer_, lxi.

Hoop, 195.

Horace, liii; _Carmina_, 154; _de Art. Poet._, 124; _Sat._, 167.

_Horestes_, xxxvi.

Horns, 208.

Howard. Lady Frances, lxx.

Howes, Edmund, lxxiii.

Hum, 139.

Humor-comedy, xix, xliv.

Humphrey, Duke, 165.

Hutchinson, Francis, _Historical Essay_, l.

Hyde Park, 156.

I. B., see Benson.

Infanta, 191.

Iniquity, xxxvii ff., 130.

Inns of Court, 176.

Interludes, Vice in, xxxv.

Intire, 168, 207.

Italian sources, xlviii.

_Jack Juggler_, xxxvii.

James I., _Demonology_, lxiii.

Jesuits, 184-5.

Jonson, identified with Wittipol, lxvi, lxxi; duel with Gabriel Spenser, 128; and Shakespeare, 165; as a soldier, 181; _Alchemist_, xix, lvii, lxxv; _Case is Altered_, xlix, lxv, lxxv, 162; _Celebration of Charis_, lxvi ff., 169; _Challenge at Tilt_, lxvi ff., lxxi, 171; _Christmas, his Masque_, xviii; _Cynthia’s Revels_, xix, xx, lxxviii; _Devil is an Ass_, its presentation, xvii f.; sources, xli, xlv ff.; minor sources, liii; construction, xlii, xlv; diction, xliv f.; as historical document, xliv; influence, lxxiv ff.; _Every Man in_, lvii, lxv; _Every Man out_, xix, xx, lvii; _Expostulation with Inigo Jones_, xxxix; _Fox_, xx, xlix, lxv; _Gipsies Metamorphosed_, lxvii ff., 171; _Golden Age Restored_, xvii; _Love Restored_, xxvi; _Magnetic Lady_, xxi, lv, lxxvii; _Masque of Beauty_, lxvii; _Masque of Queens_, lxiv f.; _New Inn_, xxi; _On the Town’s Honest Man_, xl; _Poetaster_, xix, xx, lxv f., lxxvii; _Sad Shepherd_, xxvi, lxiv f.; _Satyr_, xxvi; _Sejanus_, xix; _Silent Woman_, xlix, lxxvii; _Staple of News_, xxi, xl, lxv; _Underwoods 32_, 196; _Underwoods 36_, lxvi ff., 170; _Underwoods 62_, liii, 184; _Underwoods 64_, lxx.

Justice Hall, 208.

Kentish Town, 128.

Kind, 161.

King’s Men, 123.

Kissing, 191.

Lac Virginis, 193.

Lade, 148.

Lading, 148, 155.

Lancashire, witches, lxiii, 129; the seven of, 203.

Languages, possessed person speaks, li, 211.

Latinisms, 189.

Law terms, 200.

Ledger, 207.

Lincoln, Earl of, lx.

Lincolnshire, draining fens of, lix ff., lxxiii.

Lincoln’s Inn, walks of, 153.

London Bridge, 134.

Longing wife, 145.

Looking glasses, 168.

Loo masks, 161-2.

Love philtres, 208.

Low Countries, 181.

Lucian, _Lucius, sive Asinus_, 155.

Lupton, Donald, _London and the Countrey Carbonadoed_, lv.

_Lusty Juventus_, 130.

Machiavelli, _Belfagor_, xxix, xxxiv, xlix, lxxiv.

Mad-dame, 191.

Major (mayor), 201.

Malone, 165.

Man and kind (human nature), 161.

Maria, Infanta of Spain, xviii, 191.

Marquesse Muja, 196.

Marston, _Dutch Courtezan_, lxix.

Martial, _Epigrams_, liii, 173.

Masks, 161.

Massinger, criticism of Jonson, 188-9; _Guardian_, lvi; _Maid of Honor_, lvi.

Master of Dependencies, xliii, lvi, 181.

Meath, 139.

Merecraft, identified as Mompesson, lxxii.

Mermaid tavern, 180.

_Merry Devil of Edmonton_, xxvii, 127.

Middlesex jury, 129.

Middleton, and witchcraft, lxiv.

Middling gossip, 156.

Migniard, 149.

Military enthusiasm in 1614, 177-8.

Milking he-goats, 202.

Mint, 182.

Mompesson, Sir Giles, lxxii f.

Monieman identified with Popham, lxxiii.

Monkey as pet, 164.

Monopolies, lviii ff.

Monsters, 149.

Moon, 199.

Morality-plays, xxii, xxxiv, etc.

Motion (puppet-show), 156.

Mouse in witchcraft, li.

Much good do you, 185.

Muscatell, 160.

Muscovy glass, 126.

Mystery-plays, xxii, xxxiv.

Nails of devil unpared, 207.

_Nature_, play of, xxii.

Newcastle, Earl of, xiii, 147.

Newgate, 125, 207.

New-nothing, 136-7.

Niaise, 150.

Noble House, lxxiv.

Norfolk, Coke a squire of, lxx.

Northumberland, witches in, 129.

Norwich, boy of, 205.

Nupson, 163.

Obarni, 139.

Order of words with negative, 150.

Overbury Case, xviii, lxx ff., 141-3, 208.

Overdo, Adam, liii.

Pace of gentleman usher, 198.

Paint (blush), 168.

Painters, see Blackfriars.

Pallafreno, xlvii.

Pan, 159.

Pancridge, Earl of, 159.

Paracelsus, lxiv.

Parchment, 144.

Parliament makes remonstrance, lix.

Patentee, lx.

Patterns, 134.

Peace, with my master’s, 163.

Pentacle, 144.

Penthouse, 130.

Perfumes, 194-5.

Periapt, 144.

Persius, _Sat._, 154.

Petticoat Lane, 132.

Phrenitis, 211.

Physic, ladies taking, 199.

Picardill, 164.

Piece, 147.

Pieced, 190.

Pimlico, 184, 196.

Pinnace, 152.

Pins, pricking with, li, 208.

Plautus, xlii, liii; _Aulularia_, xlviii, lxxv, 162; _Captivi_, 189; _Casina_, xlix; _Epidicus_, 187; _Miles Gloriosus_, xlviii.

Playbill, 148.

Play-time, 188.

Plutarch, _Lives_, 177; _Moralia_, 191.

Plutarchus, xliv; identified as Howes, lxxiii.

Pope, 150, 167.

Popham, Sir John, lx, lxxiii.

Popular legend, xxvi.

Posies on trenchers, 126.

Possibility, in, 200.

Posture book, 178.

Potentia, in, 204.

Poultry, see Compters.

Pounds, see Compters.

Projector, lii, lx, lxxii.

Provedor, 187.

Proverbs, 145, 202, 212.

Proverb title, 123.

Provincial, 207.

Publish suit, 150.

Pug, xxvi, etc.

Pumps, 194.

Punch and Judy, xxv.

Punning, 147.

Purbeck, Lady, lxvii, lxx.

Purchase, 187.

Puritans, 184-5, 210.

Purse, 158.

Quintilian, 149.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, lxiii; son of, lxxi.

Ramsey, monastery at, lx.

Randolph, _Muse’s Looking Glass_, lxi.

Rapier, lv.

Raven’s wings, 144.

Relative omitted, 147, 210.

Remigius, lxiv.

Rerum natura, 177.

Resolved, 174.

_Respublica_, xxxvi.

Ribibe, 128.

Richard III., 165.

Riche, Barnaby, _Riche his Farewell to Militarie Profession_, xxxi.

Richmond, Lodowick, Earl of, lxxiv.

Rings, spirits in, 126; as charms, 144.

Roaring Boys, lvi, 181.

Roaring manner, 181.

Robin Goodfellow, xxvi ff., xxxiii.

Robinson, Richard, 175.

Roses, ass eats, 155.

Roses in shoes, 146, 179.

Round Robbin, 129.

Rug, 201-2.

Rushes, 152.

St. George’s tide, 183.

St. Giles, Cripplesgate, 201.

St. Katherine’s, 133.

St. Paul’s Churchyard, 124; steeple, 131; walk, 150.

St. Pulchar’s, 211.

Saints’ legends, xxvii.

Salt, soul instead of, 153.

Sand, ropes of, 139, 202.

Saraband, 196-7.

Satire, specific objects of, liv; personal, lxv.

Satirical plot, xli f.

Saviolo, lv.

Savory, 143.

Scarfe, 178.

Scarlet, 192.

Schlegel, 123.

Scot, Reginald, _Discovery_, xxviii, lxiii.

Servant, 191.

Servant’s wages, 147.

Sessions, quarter, 206.

Shakespeare and Jonson, 165; and witchcraft, lxiv; historical plays, 165 ff.; _Midsummer Night’s Dream_, xxvi.

Sharks, 182.

Sheriff’s dinner, 136.

Ship, woman compared to a, 152, 164.

Shirt, into the, 148.

Shoot, the bridge, 134; eyes, 174.

Shoreditch, 132; Duke of, 200.

Sign of the zodiac, 154.

Sister-swelling breasts, 172.

Smock allies, 132.

Soda, 192.

Soldered friendship, 190.

Somers, William, l f.; 203.

Somerset, Earl of, lxx.

Soon at night, 141.

Souse, 200.

Sou’t, 200.

Sow bewitched, 127.

Spanish fashions, xviii; leather, 194; needle, 131; terms, 191.

Spenser, see Despenser.

Spiced conscience, 163.

Spit, hot, as charm, 128.

Stage, displaying clothes on, 151; stools on, 125.

Standard in Cheap, 131.

Starch, yellow, 138; and the devil, 210.

State abuses, xliv.

Statutes merchant and staple, 176.

Steeple, 212.

Stockings, 140.

Stoter (?storer), 181.

Strand, 135.

Strange woman, 169.

Streets, narrow, 169.

Subjunctive, 148.

Subtill, 126.

Suburbs, 132.

Suckling, Sir John, lxxvi, 173.

Swinburne, criticism of _Devil is an Ass_, lxxviii.

Take forth, 134.

Take in, 184.

Tall (table) board, 199.

Taylor, John, lxii.

Teeth guard the tongue, 191.

Ten in the hundred, 183.

Theatre, leaving, 188; women frequent, 151.

Thorn, O’ Bet’lem, 203.

Thumb-ring, 126.

Time drunk and sleeping, 206.

Tissue, 139.

Title of play displayed, 125.

Tobacco, 139, 210; devil takes, 209; spelling of, 210.

Tooth-picks, 190, 201.

Too-too, 186.

Torned, 173.

Totnam, 127.

Train bands, 177.

Treasure, hidden, 149.

Turn (sour), 174.

Turner, Mrs. Anne, lxiii, 141.

Tyburn, 201; procession to, 207.

Umbrella, 195.

Unities, xlii f.

Upton, Rev. John, _Critical Observations_, xxi.

Vacation, long, 177.

Vanity (in morality-plays), 130.

Vapors, 182.

Velvet, 135, 181.

Venice, 194.

Vennor, 135.

Via, 158.

Vice, origin of, xxxiv; rides the devil, xxiv, 207; history of, xxxiv f.; degeneration, xxxv; chief rôles, xxxv; in interludes, xxxv; term applied to evil character, xxxvi; Jonson’s use of, xxxvii ff.; costume, xxxviii; identical with fool, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxix f.; etymology of the word, 207.

Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham, lxxii, lxxiv.

Vintry, 135.

Virgilius legend, xxvii.

Virgin’s milk, 193.

Waist and waste, 199.

Wanion, 208.

Wapull, _The Tide tarrieth for No Man_, xxxvi.

Ward, A. W., criticism of _Devil is an Ass_, lxxviii.

Ware, 212.

Webster, _Devil’s Law Case_, 167, 179, 187.

Wedlock, 150.

Westminster Hall, 135.

Whalley, xv.

Wharton, Marquis of, translation of Novella of _Belfagor_, xxxi.

While (until), 146.

Whitechapel, 133.

Whore, money a, 157.

Wicked, 198.

Wilson, John, _Belphegor_, lxxiv; _Cheats_, lxxiv; _Projectors_, lxii, lxxv, 162.

_Wily Beguiled_, xxvi.

Wisdom, keep warm your, 148.

Witchcraft, lxii f.; symptoms of, xlix; Acts against, lxiii, 145; Jonson’s attitude towards, lxiii; treatment in other plays, lxiv f.

Wittipol, xlii; identified as Jonson, lxxi.

Woodcock, 158.

Woodstock, Thomas of, 165.

Wood Street, see Compters.

Woolsack, 134.

Wusse, 151.

Yellow starch, see Starch.

Yoking foxes, 202.

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