The
quotation
is from Horace,
_De Art.
_De Art.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
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. B. = Fleay speaks of this printer as J. Benson (_Biog. Chron_. 1.
354). Benson did not 'take up freedom' until June 30, 1631 (_Sta.
Reg. _ 3. 686).
