[62] Jonson had the palsy at the time.
[63] The names of several of Jonson’s Dramatis Personæ.
[64] New Inn, Act iii. Scene 2.—Act iv. Scene 4.
[65] This break was purposely designed by the poet, to expose that equally singular one in Ben’s third stanza.
[66] Richard Broome, wrote with success several comedies. He had been the amanuensis or attendant of Ben Jonson.
[67] The lines—
“Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage,”
were evidently suggested by Shakspeare:—
“Nor stony tower nor walls of beaten brass,