History of English Literature Volume 1 (of 3)

by Hippolyte Taine

[539]"Every Man in his Humour," Prologue.

[540]Ibid.

[541]Ibid.

[542]"Every Man in his Humour," Prologue.

[543]Compare "Volpone" with Regnard's "Légataire"; the end of the sixteenth with the beginning of the eighteenth century.

[544]"Volpone," I. 1.

[545]"Volpone," I. 1.

[546]Ibid. I. 3.

[547]Ibid.

[548]"Volpone," I. 4.