The Best Plays of Ben Jonson
Notes by Brinsley Nicholson and C. H. Herford, three volumes
(Volume I) Every Man in His Humour - Every Man out of His Humour - The Poetaster
(Volume II) Bartholomew Fair - Cynthia's Revels; or, The Fountain of Self-Love - Sejanus His Fall
(Volume III) Volpone; or, The Fox - Epicœne; or, The Silent Woman - The Alchemist
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“I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, than blind,
For else it could not be,
That she,
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—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)