The Devil is an Ass

by Ben Jonson

[ [3] Eng. Drama, p. 78.

[ [4] Eng. Drama 2. 296.

[ [5] N. & Q. 4th Ser. 5. 573.

[ [6] Bibliog. Col., 2d Ser. p. 320.

[ [7] Bibliog. Col., p. 320. For a more detailed description of this volume see Winter, pp. xii-xiii.

[ [8] For a collation of this edition, see Mallory, pp. xv-xvii.

[ [9] Collier, Annals 3. 275, 302; Fleay, Hist. 190.

[ [10] Roscius Anglicanus, p. 8.

[ [11] ‘A play of his, upon which he was accused, The Divell is ane Ass; according to Comedia Vetus, in England the Divell was brought in either with one Vice or other: the play done the Divel caried away the Vice, he brings in the Divel so overcome with the wickedness of this age that thought himself ane Ass. Παρεργους [incidentally] is discoursed of the Duke of Drounland: the King desired him to conceal it.’—Conversations with William Drummond, Jonson’s Wks. 9. 400-1.

[ [12] Wks. 3. 158.