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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
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.".
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
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
Title: The Divell Feasted
Author: Jonson, Ben
Date(s): 16--?
Manuscript: Lt 114
Contents: Satirical lines imagining the devil being feasted by a cook
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