[519]"Every Man out of his Humour," I; Gifford's "Jonson," p. 30.
[520]Ben Jonson's Poems, ed. Bell, An Epistle Mendicant, to Richard, Lord Weston, Lord High Treasurer (1631), p. 244.
[521]"The Devil is an Ass."
[522]Sejanus, Catiline, passim.
[523]Alfred de Musset, preface to "La Coupe et les Lèvres." Plato: "Ion."
[524]Compare Sir Epicure Mammon with Baron Hulot from Balzac's "Cousine Bette." Balzac, who is learned like Jonson, creates real beings like Shakespeare.
[525]"Every Man out of his Humour," Prologue.
[526]"Poetaster," I. 1.
[527]Ibid.
[528]See the second act of "Catiline."