[ [92] The passage from the Gipsies especially finds a close parallel in the fragment of a song in Marston’s Dutch Courtezan, 1605, Wks. 2. 46:
Purest lips, soft banks of blisses, Self alone deserving kisses.
Are not these lines from Jonson’s hand? This was the year of his collaboration with Marston in Eastward Ho.
Transcriber Notes:
In the text of the actual play, lowercase “s” has been replaced by the “long s”, “f”. The capital letter “W” is often replaced with “VV”, the letter “v” and the letter “u” are used interchangeably, and the letters "i" and "j" are also used interchangeably.
Many of the characters names in the play have various spellings,
e.g., MERE-CRAFT and MERECRAFT, EVER-ILL and EVERILL, FITZ-DOTTEREL and FITZDOTTEREL, PIT_FAL and PITFALL, DIVEL and DIVELL.
The footnotes in the actual play were added by the author as part of his thesis. The references for these footnotes are the line numbers. Since each scene begins the line numbers over at 1, these footnotes have been collected at the end of each scene, and refer to the appropriate line in the preceding scene.
Antiquated spellings and ancient words in the text of the play were preserved.