[835] 58 prove to be the merrier? 1641 [836] 60 impudence] insolence 1641 [837] 61 it.--_Re-enter_ AMBLER, _with_ SLEDGE _and_ GUILTHEAD. G [838] 69 with [_To Meer._] G [839] SN. _him_ om. 1641 [840] SN. om. G [841] 73 strong om. 1641 [842] 74 &c. om. G [843] 82 SN. _to be_ om. 1641 [844] SN. om. G [845] 84 endanger’d W, G [846] 86 foole] fellow 1641 [847] 87 He makes himselfe] I’d rather fall 1641 O they whisper, they whisper, whisper, &c. 1641 [848] 91 phrenetic G [849] 108 you om. W [850] 110 _Crambe_] Crambo W. G [851] 111 can. [_Aside to Fitz._] G [852] 112 =κακοδάμων= 1692, 1716 [853] 113 =τισ= 1692, 1716 [854] 114 =δωδεκάκις= W, G [855] 115 _Aside to Fitz._ G [856] 119 FIT. _Ouy_,] in line 120, 1692, f. [857] 121 SN.] _Enter_ SHACKLES, _with the things found on the body of the Cut-purse_. G [858] 128 Those] These W [859] 135 SN.] _Fitz._ [_starts up_.] G [860] 141 () ret. G [861] 145 not you] you not W, G [862] 148 Coozners 1641 _Cozeners_ 1692, 1716 cozeners W, G [863] 166 in it G [864] 167 () ret. G [865] 170 human 1692, f. [866] 174 [_He comes forward for the Epilogue._ G [867] 175 ‘The End.’ after line 6 1692 om. 1716 W, G The Epilogue. _Thus, the_ Proiecter, _here, is ouer-throwne. But I have now a_ Proiect _of mine owne, If it may paſſe: that no man would inuite The_ Poet _from vs, to ſup forth to night, 5 If the_ play _pleaſe. If it diſpleaſant be, We doe preſume, that no man will: nor wee._ [868] 1 ‘The Epilogue.’ om. G [869] 7 [_Exeunt._ G NOTES The present edition includes whatever has been considered of value in the notes of preceding editions. It has been the intention in all cases to acknowledge facts and suggestions borrowed from such sources, whether quoted verbatim, abridged, or developed. Notes signed W. are from Whalley, G. from Gifford, C. from Cunningham. For other abbreviations the Bibliography should be consulted. Explanations of words and phrases are usually found only in the Glossary. References to this play are by act, scene, and line of the Text; other plays of Jonson are cited from the Gifford-Cunningham edition of 1875. The references are to play, volume and page. TITLE-PAGE. =THE DIUELL IS AN ASSE.= ‘Schlegel, seizing with great felicity upon an untranslateable German idiom, called the play _Der dumme Teufel_ [Schlegel’s _Werke_, ed. Böcking, 6. 340]--a title which must be allowed to be twice as good as that of the English original. The phrase ‘the Devil is an ass’ appears to have been proverbial. See Fletcher’s _The Chances_, Act 5. Sc. 2: Dost thou think The devil such an ass as people make him?’ --Ward, _Eng. 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: