t JONSON ALLUSION-BOOK A COLLECTION OF ALLUSIONS TO BEN JONSON FROM 1597 TO 1700 BY JESSE FRANKLIN BRADLEY, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English in the University of Louisville AND JOSEPH QUINCY ADAMS, Ph.D., Litt.D. THIS VOLUME IS BASED UPON A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE OF PHILOSOPHY BY JESSE FRANKLIN BRADLEY PREFACE This volume proposes to do for Jonson what The Shakespeare Allusion-Book does for Shakespeare. While primarily intended to set forth the materials, within the limits specified, relating to Jonson's career as a man of letters, and to disclose the estimates of his genius as expressed by his contemporaries and immediate successors, it will also incidentally supply information on a variety of subjects connected with the literature of the time. For example, it will be of service as a partial allusion-book to many poets of the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages; and it will be of no little value as a body of seventeenth-century dramatic criticism. The editors are not vain enough to suppose that they have been able to collect all the important references to Jonson; for only by the co-operation of many scholars, with labor extending over a long period of years, could a work of this nature be made even approximately complete. In his Preface to The Shakespeare Allusion-Book, the editor states: "These volumes were not made in a day. Thirty years have passed in their compilation, and the thousands of books from which their contents have been drawn stretch over three hundred years. Many willing hands, too, have lent assistance. Antiquarians, scholars, and friendly readers have all most kindly helped." Yet, in spite of the prolonged and painstaking effort of so many collaborators, several supplements to the volumes have appeared, and numerous allusions to Shakespeare remain still ungathered. The editors of The Jonson Allusion-Book have worked without assistance of any kind, and they can only hope that they have made a fair beginning. A few biographical documents have been included when these relate to the poet's literary career; doubtful allusions, unless lent unto Bengemen Johnson player the 28 of July 1597 in Redey mony the some of fower poundes to be payd yt agayne when so ever ether I or any for me shall demande yt I saye.. wittnes E Alleyn & John Synger iiiju [Henslowe's Diary, ed. W. W. Greg, 1904, pp. 47, 200. The meaning of the first passage is not clear; the second passage suggests the interpretation that when Jonson was in trouble over The Isle of Dogs he applied to Henslowe for aid.] The Privy Council, 1597. A warrant to the keeper of the Marshalsea to release Gabriell Spencer and Robert Shaa, stage-players, out of prison, who were of lat comitted to his custodie. The like warrant for the releasing of Benjamine Johnson. [Acts of the Privy Council 1597, New Series, ed. J. R. Dasent, 1904, xxviii, 33.] Ile of Doges frmnt [fragment] by Thomas Nashe & inferior plaier[s]. [Northumberland Manuscripts: Collotype Facsimile and Type Transcript of an Elizabethan Manuscript preserved at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, ed. F. J. Burgoyne, 1904.] Philip Henslowe, 1597-98. lent unto Bengemen Johnsone the [2] 3 of desembr XXS lent Bengemyne Johnson the 5 of Jenewary 1597 J Redy mony the some of.. lent unto the company the 18 of aguste 1598 to bye a Boocke called hoote anger sone cowld of m' porter m' cheattell & bengemen Johnson in fulle payment the some of. Lent unto Robart shawe & Jewbey the 23 of Octobr 1598 to lend unto m' Chapmane one his playe boocke & ij ectes of a tragedie of bengemens plotte the some of... } vjli -iijli [Henslowe's Diary, ed. W. W. Greg, 1904, pp. 70, 82, 200, 93, 98.] Francis Meres, 1598. So these are our best for Tragedie, The Lorde Buckhurst, Doctor Leg of Cambridge, Doctor Edes of Oxford, Master Edward Ferris, the author of the Mirror for Magistrates, Marlow, Peele, Watson, Kid, Shakespeare, Drayton, Chapman, Decker, and Beniamin Iohnson. [Palladis Tamia, 1598.] Middlesex Sessions' Rolls, 1598. 22 September, 40 Elizabeth.-True Bill against Benjamin Johnson, late of London, yoman, for killing Gabriel Spencer in the fields of Shorediche. Cogn' Indictament petit librum legit vt Cl'icus sign' cum l'r'a T Et delr juxta formam statut', &c. Middss: Juratores pro D'na Regina p'ntant qd Benjaminus. Johnson nup' de London yoman vicesimo secundo die Septembris Anno regni d'n'e n'r'e Elizabethe Dei gra' Anglie Franc' et Hib' nie Regine fidei defensor', &c., quadragesimo vi & armis, &c. In et sup' quendam Gabrielem Spencer in pace Dei & d'c'e d'n'e Regine apud Shordiche in Com' Midd' pred' in Campis ib'm existen insultu' fecit Et eund'm Gabrielem cum quodam gladio. de ferro et calibe vocat' a Rapiour precii iiis. quem in manu sua dextra adtunc & ibi'm h'uit et tenuit extract' felonice ac voluntar' |