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Coryate, Thomas (1577-1617)2
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Inigo Jones : a life of the architect

Cunningham, Peter (1816-1869); Planché, J R (1796-1880); Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637); Marston, John (1575?-1634); Collier, J Payne (1789-1883)

1848

The five court masques include: The mask of queens, and The twelfth night's revels, by Ben Jonson; The mountebank's mask, by John Marston; The mask of the twelve months; The mask of the four seasons.

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Notes of Ben Jonson's conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden, January, M.DC.XIX

Drummond, William (1585-1649); Laing, David; Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637); Shakespeare Society (Great Britain)

1842

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Title: Speech of Cataline

Author: Jonson, Ben

Date(s): 1611 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: Part of Catiline's opening speech from Jonson's play "Catiline", Act I,

vowing to lead an army against Rome

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Title: Epitaph by Mr Dryden on his sweetheart

Author: Jonson, Ben

Attribution: Mr Dryden

Date(s): 1612 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 20

Contents: Epigrammatic epitaph on a beautiful virtuous woman, adapted from ll.3-6 of

Jonson's Epigram 124, "Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H.".

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Title: An execration on Vulcan

Author: Jonson, Ben

Date(s): 1623 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 11

Contents: Complaint addressed to Vulcan following the fire that destroyed Jonson's

library and many of his writings, wittily attacking him for his groundless

behaviour and his burning of other buildings

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Jonson, Ben

Attribution: B. Jonson

Date(s): 1611 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 48

Contents: Part of Catiline's opening speech from Jonson's play "Catiline", I, vowing to

lead an army against Rome

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Old city manners : a comedy : altered from the original Eastward hoe, written by Ben Jonson, Chapman, and Marston

Lennox, Charlotte (1729-1804); Chapman, George (1559?-1634); Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637); Marston, John (1575?-1634)

1775

Last leaf blank.

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Title: The Divell Feasted

Author: Jonson, Ben

Date(s): 16--?

Manuscript: Lt 114

Contents: Satirical lines imagining the devil being feasted by a cook

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Jonson, Ben

Attribution: Ben Johnson

Date(s): 1640 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 8

Contents: Extract from Jonson's "Horace, Of the Art of Poetrie" (adapted from the "Ars

poetica"), on change in language

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The fairy prince : a masque as perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden

Arne, Thomas Augustine (1710-1778); Colman, George (1732-1794); Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637); Welcker, Peter (1775)

[1771]

Libretto by G. Colman, after B. Jonson's 'Oberon'. Overture "adapted for the harpsichord, or piano forte"; vocal numbers mostly in condensed score with figured bass. There are two blank pages betw...

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All Ovids Elegies : 3. bookes
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All Ovids Elegies : 3. bookes

Ovid; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Davies, Sir John (1569-1626); Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637)

[ca. 1630]

Elegy 15 in Book I is given in two versions, the 2d entitled "the same by B.I." and is supposed to be Ben Jonson's earliest published work. Signatures: A-F8. C. M. is Christopher Marlowe and J. D....

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Coryats Crambe, or his colwort twise sodden : and now served in with other macaronicke dishes, as the second course to his Crudities

Coryate, Thomas (1577-1617); Coryate, Thomas (1577-1617); Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637); Stansby, William (fl. 1597-1638)

1611

Signatures: a-b⁴ A-D⁴ 2D⁴ E-G⁴ H⁴ (2D1-2 signed D3-4; -H4). The rarest of the author's productions. Prefixed to the prose contents of this volume are "Certaine verses written upon Coryats ...

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