Part I

. Act III.

_What you Will._ 1607.

_Who still slept._ Act II. 1.

_Parasitaster and Malcontent._ _Parasitaster; or The Fawn_, 1606. _The Malcontent_, 1604.

226. _Is nothing, if not critical._ _Othello_, II. 1.

_We would be private._ _The Fawn_, Act II. 1.

_Faunus, this Granuffo._ Act III.

227. _Though he was no duke._ Act II. 1.

_Molière has built a play._ _L’École des Maris._

_Full of wise saws._ _As You Like It_, Act II. 7.

228. _Nymphadoro’s reasons._ _The Fawn_, Act III.

_Hercules’s description._ Act II. 1.

_Like a wild goose fly._ _As You Like It_, II. 7.

230. _Bussy d’Ambois._ 1607.

_The way of women’s will._

‘It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman’s love can win, or long inherit, But what it is hard is to say, Harder to hit....’ _Samson Agonistes_, 1010 _et seq._

_Hide nothing._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 27.

231. _Fulke Greville._ Lord Brooke (1554–1628). _Alaham and Mustapha_ were published in the folio edition of Brooke, 1633. He was the school friend, and wrote the Life, of Sir Philip Sidney. His self-composed epitaph reads, ‘Fulke Grevill, servant to Queene Elizabeth, councellor to King James, frend to Sir Philip Sidney.’ See Hazlitt’s Essay ‘Of Persons one would wish to have seen.’

_The ghost of one of the old kings._ _Alaham._

_Monsieur D’Olive._ 1606.

_Sparkish._ In Wycherley’s _Country Wife_ (1675).

_Witwoud and Petulant._ In Congreve’s _The Way of the World_ (1700).

234. _May-Day._ 1611.

_All Fools._ 1605.

_The Widow’s Tears._ 1612.

_Eastward Hoe._ 1605. Ben Jonson accompanied his two friends to prison for this voluntarily. Their imprisonment was of short duration.

_On his release from prison._ See Drummond’s Conversations, XIII.

_Express ye unblam’d._ Paradise Lost, III. 3.

_Appius and Virginia._ Printed 1654.

_The affecting speech._ _I.e._ that of Virginius to Virginia, Act IV. 1.

_Wonder of a Kingdom._ Published 1636.

_Jacomo Gentili._ In the above play.

_Old Fortunatus._ 1600.

235. _Vittorio Corombona._ _The White Devil_, 1612.

_Signior Orlando Friscobaldo._ In _The Honest Whore_,