[ [33] See Herford, p. 308.
[ [34] A similar passage is found in Dekker, Whore of Babylon, Wks. 2. 355. The sentiment is not original with Dekker. Cf. Middleton, Black Book, 1604:
... And were it number’d well, There are more devils on earth than are in hell.
[ [35] Dekker makes a similar pun on Helicon in News from Hell, Non-dram Wks. 2. 95.
[ [36] A paraphrase of Belfagor occurs in the Conclusion of Barnaby Riche’s Riche his Farewell to Militarie Profession, 1581, published for the Shakespeare Society by J. P. Collier, 1846. The name is changed to Balthasar, but the main incidents are the same.
[ [37] Jonson refers to Machiavelli’s political writings in Timber (ed. Schelling, p. 38).
[ [38] Eng. Dram. Lit. 2. 606.
[ [39] Eckhardt, p. 195.
[ [40] In W. Wager’s The longer thou livest, the more fool thou art.
[ [41] In Wapull’s The Tide tarrieth for No Man.