Covetousness appears in _Robin Conscience_, c
1530, and is applied to one of the
characters
in _The Staple of
News_, _Wks.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
1. 37 a Vice.= See Introduction, pp. xxxiv f.
=1. 1. 38 To practice there-with any play-fellow.= See variants.
The editors by dropping the hyphen have completely changed the
sense of the passage. Pug wants a vice in order that he may corrupt
his play-fellows _there-with_.
=1. 1. 41 ff. Why, any Fraud;=
=Or Couetousnesse; or Lady Vanity;=
=Or old Iniquity.=
Fraud is a character in Robert Wilson's _The Three Ladies of London_,
printed 1584, and _The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London_, c
1588, printed 1590.
Covetousness appears in _Robin Conscience_, c
1530, and is applied to one of the
characters
in _The Staple of
News_, _Wks.
_ 5. 216. Vanity is one of the characters in _Lusty
Juventus_ (see note 1. 1. 50) and in _Contention between Liberality
and Prodigality_, printed 1602 (_O. Pl._ 4th ed., 8. 328). She seems
to have been a favorite with the later dramatists, and is frequently
mentioned (_I Henry IV._ 2. 4; _Lear_ 2. 2; _Jew of Malta_ 2. 3,
Marlowe's _Wks._ 2.
