History of English Literature Volume 1 (of 3)

by Hippolyte Taine

[549]"Volpone," I. 4.

[550]Ibid. I. 5.

[551]"Volpone," I. 5.

[552]Ibid. II. 2.

[553]Ibid.

[554]"Volpone," III. 5. We pray reader to pardon us for Ben Jonson's broadness. If I omit it, I cannot depict the sixteenth century. Grant the same the indulgence to the historian as to the anatomist.

[555]Ibid.

[556]"Volpone," III. 5.

[557]"Volpone" IV. 1.

[558]Ibid. V. 1.