TO THE VIRTUOUS, AND MY WORTHY FRIEND MR. RICHARD MARTIN SIR,--A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it. To make mine own mark appear, and shew by which of these seals I am known, I send you this piece of what may live of mine; for whose innocence, as for the author's, you were once a noble and timely undertaker, to the greatest justice of this kingdom. Enjoy now the delight of your goodness, which is, to see that prosper you preserved, and posterity to owe the reading of that, without offence, to your name, which so much ignorance and malice of the times then conspired to have supprest. Your true lover, BEN JONSON. DRAMATIS PERSONAE AUGUSTUS CAESAR. HERMOGENES TIGELLIUS. MACAENUES. DEMETRIUS FANNIUS. MARC. OVID. ALBIUS. COR. GALLUS. MINOS. SEX. PROPERTIUS. HISTRIO. FUS. ARISTIUS. AESOP. PUB. OVID. PYRGI. VIRGIL. Lictors, Equitis, etc. Horace. TREBATIUS. JULIA. ASINIUS LUPUS. CYTHERIS. PANTILIUS TUCCA. PLAUTIA. LUSCUS. CHLOE. RUF. LAB. CRISPINUS. Maids. SCENE,-Rome After the second sounding. ENVY arises in the midst of the stage.