... VOLPONE . Will you really ? COLOMBA . I said I would . VOLPONE . Then my health will return immediately . There is a magic cure ; if a virtuous woman lays her hand upon your heart and says three times ... Volpone ! Be well 86 ACT II VOLPONE.
... Volpone in British Museum : C. 12. e . 17 . Abbott E. A. ABBOTT , A Shakespearian Grammar : London , 1897 . AnaMel . Robert BURTON , The Anatomy of Melancholy A New Edition : London , 1863 . B = Bacon = ... Copy of Quarto - edition of ...
... VOLPONE . 2 WILLIAM GIFFORD , in his edition of Ben Jonson's works in 1816 , pointed out similarities between certain portions of Volpone and passages in Petronius Arbiter . Following up this suggestion , F. Holthausen seeks to show ...
Ben Jonson's Dramen in Neudruck: t. Poëtaster (cont.) Seianvs, his fall. Volpone, or The foxe. Epiocene, or The silent woman
... VOLPONE . Avo.4 . Why , he is dead ? VOLT.O no , my honor'd fathers . He liues-Avo.1.How ! liues ? VOLT.Liues.Avo.2.This is subtler , yet ! Avo.3 You said , he was dead ? VOLT . Neuer . Avo.3 . You said so ? CORV . I heard so . Avo.4 ...
... [ Volpone's house ] Enter Volpone Volp . WELL , I am here ; and all this brunt is past : I ne'er was in dislike with my disguise Till this fled moment ; here ' twas good , in private , But in your public , cave , whilst I breathe . ' Fore ...
... Volpone's house . Secondly , it advances the action by allowing Volpone to see Celia . Thirdly , it is thematically strengthening . Volpone the mountebank makes money by persuading people they can buy health . He works in disguise and ...
The works of Ben Jonson. With a biographical memoir, by William Gifford. A new edition
... Volpone is a daring infidel ; Sutton was abstemious , but kind and charitable ; Volpone is painted as the most selfish and unfeeling of voluptuaries : « prepare Me music , dances , banquets , all delights : The Turk is not more sensual ...
... the Fox's inheritance . It is only by stimu- lating his jealousy of Voltore that the parasite brings him to lay down a heavy bag of cash as goodwill offer- ing . Then Mosca undertakes to induce Volpone to execute a will in his favour ...
... Here , as I watch'd the dying lamp around , From yonder shrine I heard a hollow sound . " Come ... poem is introduced in the manner of the Pro- vençal poets , whose works were ... Here naked rocks , and empty wastes , were seen ; There towering ...
Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to Beattie: With Biographical and Critical Notices
... Come , sister , come ! " ( it said , or seem'd to say ) Thy place is here ... poem is introduced in the manner of the Pro- vençal poets , whose works were ... Here naked rocks , and empty wastes , were seen ; There towering cities , and the ...
The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged...: From Ben Jonson to Beattie
... Here , as I watch'd the dying lamp around , From yonder shrine I heard a hollow sound . " Come ... poem is introduced in the manner of the Pro- vençal poets , whose works were ... Here naked rocks , and empty wastes , were seen ; There towering ...
Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to Beattie with Biographical and Critical Notices
... FOREST . THE hinds how blest , who ne'er beguil'd To quit their hamlet's hawthorn wild ; Nor haunt the crowd , nor tempt the main , For splendid care , and guilty gain ! When morning's twilight ... charm their steps explore Of Solitude's ...
The Poetical Works of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson
... Friend , Michael Dray- ton • · 331 • Epitaph on Michael Drayton 335 To my Truly Beloved Friend , Master Browne , on his Pastorals 336 To his Much and Worthily Esteemed Friend , the Au- thor ( of Cynthia's Revenge ) · 337 To my Worthy ...
Action, Song, and Poetry: Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson
... Frogs also conforms to type 2a. in our taxonomy. Unlike Peace, however, the agon of Frogs shows a more consistent meta-literary interest, which tends to blur the dramatic op- position between two stances: both poets are made fun of, and ...
... The Haunted House ( Mostellaria ) in 1569.15 As a town boy , Jonson probably had no direct role in the Latin plays ... Plautus and Terence had done . His first recorded success , The Case Is Altered , is an artful combination of Plautus ...
The Works of Ben Jonson ...: To which is Added a Comedy, Called the New Inn. With Additions Never Before Published
... 2 . Dog and Cat . SOGLIARDO . SHIFT . Ruftici . A Groom . Cinedo his Page ... Worlds abuses . One whom no fervile hope of gain , or frosty apprehenfion of ... Cheats , Quarrels , and Robberies , which he never did , only to get him a name ...
... 5 ; Greene , “ Ben Jonson and the Centered Self , " pp . 332-3 , 348 ; and ... descent to Avernus ... but to recall thy steps and pass out to the upper air ... into English spirit " ; his product is further said to be " sublimed and ...
... Volpone has amassed and that he enjoys seeing and touching. Volpone has no family and no heirs, and he enjoys the game of acquiring riches far more then he does the actual wealth he amasses. Volpone is in excellent health, but when his ...
The Works of John Marston: Eastward ho. The insatiate countess. The metamorphosis of Pygmalion's image, and certain satires. The scourge of villainy. Entertainment of Alice, dowager-countess of Derby. City pageant. Verses from Chester's Love's martyr. The mountebank's masque. Commendatory verses prefixed to Ben Jonson's sejanus
... city in the world , " he writes , " does more dry up the tears of the widow and gives more warmth to the fatherless than this ancient and reverend grandame of cities ? Where hath the orphan ( that is to receive great portions ) less ...
... free to attend plays during the day, the audience consisted largely of gentlemen who paid about 1 pence for the more expensive seats, while those who could afford the less costly center area crowded before the stage. Respectable women ...
The Works of John Marston: Eastward ho. The insatiate countess. The metamorphosis of Pygmalion's image, and certain satires. The scourge of villainy. Entertainment of Alice, dowager-countess of Derby. City pageant. Verses from Chester's Love's martyr. The mountebank's masque. Commendatory verses prefixed to Ben Jonson's Sejanus. In
... city in the world , " he writes , " does more dry up the tears of the widow and gives more warmth to the fatherless than this ancient and reverend grandame of cities ? Where hath the orphan ( that is to receive great portions ) less ...
The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher
... Dua . That's my grief . [ punish'd ? Doct . Why , do you wish he had been Dua . No ; [ way : The stream of my swol'n sorrow runs not that For could I find him , as I vow to Heav'n It shall be my first care to seek him out , I would with ...
Ben Jonson's 'Dotages': A Reconsideration of the Late Plays
... form (1631), was not published in the Second Folio of 1640-1641, but it did appear in all subsequent editions.1 The dating of the lone performance depends on Edmund Malone's report of an entry in the lost Office Book of the Master of ...
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