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.