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Drama_ 2. 372.

A still more important passage occurs in Dekker's _If this be not a
good Play_, a partial source of Jonson's drama:

_Scu. _ Sweete-breads I hold my life, that diuels an asse.
--Dekker, _Wks. _ 3. 328.

Jonson uses it again in _The Staple of News_, _Wks. _ 5. 188:

The conjurer cozened him with a candle's end; he was an ass.

Dekker (_Non-dram. Wks. _ 2. 275) tells us the jest of a citizen
who was told that the 'Lawyers get the Diuell and all: What an
Asse, replied the Citizen is the diuell? If I were as he I would
get some of them.
'

=HIS MAIESTIES SERVANTS. = Otherwise known as the
_King's Company_, and popularly spoken of as the _King's Men_. For
an account of this company see Winter, ed. _Staple of News_, p. 121;
and Fleay, _Biog. Chron. _ 1. 356-7; 2. 403-4.

=Ficta voluptatis=, etc. The quotation is from Horace,
_De Art. Poet. _, line 338. Jonson's translation is:

Let what thou feign'st for pleasure's sake, be near
The truth.

Jonson makes use of this quotation again in his note 'To the
Reader' prefixed to Act 3 of _The Staple of News_.

=I.