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The following are reproduced by courtesy of David L. Gants: The Works of Benjamin Jonson (1616), and The Works of Benjamin Jonson, the Second Volume (1641)

The following are reproduced by permission of The Warden and Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford: The Theobalds Entertainment, All Souls MS 155 fols. 319-21

The following is reproduced by permission of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford: James Gibbs, Design for the monument to Ben Jonson, c.1723

The following are reproduced by permission of the British Library: The Masque of Blackness, Royal MS 18 A. XLV; The Masque of Queens, Royal MS 17 B. XXXI; Harley MS 4955, fols. 2-55v, 166v-169v, 194-204; ‘To Thomas Palmer’, Add 18040, fol. 10; Epigram 91, Add MS 23229, f.87; Letter 1, Cotton MS Julius C. III. F.222; ‘An Execration on Vulcan’, Underwood 43, Add MS 25303, ff. 94-8; The Theobalds Entertainment, Le Neve MS, BL 27407 fols. 127r-128v; ‘To the most noble and above all his titles Robert, Earl of Somerset’, C. 28.m.11; C.34.d.4; The Masque of Queens (1609), inscription to Queen Anne, C.28.g.5; Volpone (1607), inscription to John Florio, C.12.e.17; Sejanus His Fall, title-page, Ashley 3464; Clement Edmonds, Observations (1609), frontispiece, C.60.n.3; E.1617.(1); The Masque of Augurs, C.39.c.34; Wit and Drollery (1656), pp. 17-18. Copyright in these images belongs to the British Library and any further reproduction, transmission, performance, display, rental, lending, or storage in any retrieval form without the written consent of the copyright holder is prohibited.

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The following are reproduced by permission of the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds: Q. Horatius. Flaccus, his Art of Poetry, Englished by Ben Jonson (1640); Informations to William Drummond, in The Works of William Drummond (1711); selected pages from The Works of Benjamin Jonson (1616) and The Works of Benjamin Jonson, the Second Volume (1641)

The following are reproduced by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library: Christopher Brooke, The Ghost of Richard III (1614), p. 6 (Pet. K. 4. 1 (Part 1)); Q. Horatius Flaccus, his Art of Poetry (1640), sigs. D6-10, E9-11 (Syn.8.64.13).

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The following are reproduced by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC: Christmas his Masque, MS J.a.1, fols. 168-74; The Theobalds entertainment, Kaye MS, MS X.d.475; page from Martial, Epigrammata libri (1615) (STC 17492, copy 1); page from Camdeni Annales Rerum Anglicarum (1615) (STC 4496, copy 1); Eastward Ho (Q1, 1605)

The following items are reproduced by permission of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California: The Alchemist (1612), The Case Is Altered (1609); Catiline His Conspiracy (1611); The Characters of Two Royal Masques (1608); Chloridia (1632);Every Man In His Humour (1601); Every Man out of His Humour (1600); The Silent Woman (1620); Ben Jonson’s Execration Against Vulcan (1640); The Fortunate Isles (1624); Hymenaei (1606); B. Ion. His Part of King James his Royal and Magnificent Entertainment (1604); Love’s Triumph Through Callipolis (1630); Coryate’s Crudities (1611); The Arches of Triumph (1603); The Masque of Queens (1609), Neptune’s Triumph (1623); The New Inn (1631); Poetaster, or The Arraignment (1602); Sejanus his Fall (1605); Ben Jonson His Volpone or the Fox (1607); The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Bridgwater manuscript, HM 741; ‘In authorem’, in N. Breton, Melancholic Humours; ‘The Phoenix Analysed’ and ‘Ode’, in R. Chester, Love’s Martyr (1601), ‘To the author’ from T. Wright, The Passions of the Mind in General (1601); ‘To the worthy author’, in J. Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess (1610?); ‘certain opening and drawing distichs’, ‘The character’ and ‘To the right noble Tom Tell-troth’, in T. Coryate, Coryate’s Crudities (1611); T. Farnaby, Juvenal, persius and Seneca; ‘To his friend… the author’ in J. Stephens, Cynthia’s Revenge (1613); ‘To the worthy author’ in T. Overbury, The Husband (1614); ‘To my truly-beloved friend’, in T,. Browne, Britannia’s Pastorals (1616); ‘To my worthy and honoured friend’, in G. Chapman, The Georgics of Hesiod (1618); ‘On the author’ in J. Mabbe, The Rogue (1622); ‘To the reader’ and ‘To the memory of my beloved’ in W. Shakespeare, Comedies, Histories and tragedies (1623); ‘To my chosen friend’, in T. May, Lucan’s Pharsalia (1627); ‘The Vision of Ben Jonson’ in M. Drayton, The Battle of Agincourt (1627); ‘On the Honoured Poems’, in J. Beaumont, Bosworth Field (1629); ‘To my worthy friend’, in E. Filmer, French Court Airs (1629); ‘To my old faithful servant’ in R. Brome, The Northern Lass (1632); ‘To mistress Alice Sutcliffe’, in A. Sutcliffe, Meditations of Man’s Mortality (1634); ‘To my dear son’, in J. Rutter, The Shepherd’s Holiday (1635); ‘An epigram to my jovial good friend’ in T. Dover, Annalia Dubrensia (1636).

The following is reproduced by permission of King’s College, Cambridge: The Fountain of Self-Love, or Cynthia’s Revels (1601)

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The following are reproduced by permission of the National Archives, London: Gypsies Metamorphosed, the Goodere manuscript, SP 14/122/58; Britain’s Burse, SP 14/44/62, fols. 144-147; Letter 9, SP 14/122/58.

The following is reproduced by permission of The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin: Time Vindicated (1622)

The following are reproduced courtesy of The Marquis of Salisbury: Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 140/110r-111v (The Theobalds Entertainment, French transcript); 144/58 (letter 3); 144/266 (Epigram 63); 144/267, 144/273, 140/114 (songs from the Merchant Taylors’ Entertainment); 144/271 (The Theobalds Entertainment, Kirkham MS); 144/272 (The Two Kings’ Entertainment

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