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Excerpts from <title level="m">The Devil Is an Ass Author Ben Jonson Printer John Beale Printer James Dawson Printer Bernard Alsop Printer Thomas Fawcett Bookseller Richard Meighen Bookseller Thomas Walkley Compiler Melanie Chernyk Transcriber Melanie Chernyk Transcriber Kate LeBere Encoder Kate LeBere Markup Editor Kate LeBere Transcription Proofreader Kate LeBere Data Manager Tye Landels Junior Programmer Joey Takeda Programmer Martin Holmes Associate Project Director Kim McLean-Fiander Project Director Janelle Jenstad The Map of Early Modern Londonhttp://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/includes.xmlVictoria, BC, Canada

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Source: Jonson, Ben. The vvorkes of Beniamin Ionson. Containing these playes, viz. 1 Bartholomew Fayre. 2 The staple of newes. 3 The Divell is an asse. London: John Beale, James Dawson, Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcet for Richard Meighen and Thomas Walkley, 1641. STC 14754.

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PVG. Braue, braue, Iniquity! will not this doe, Chiefe?

INI. Nay, boy, I wil bring thee to the Bawds, and the Roysters, At Belins-gate, feasting with claret-wine, and oysters, From thence shoot the Bridge,See Shooting the Bridge for more information. childe, to the Cranes i’the Vintry, And see, there the gimblets, how they make their entry! Or, if thou hadst rather, to the Strand downe to fall, ’Gainst the Lawyers come dabled from Westminster-hall And marke how they cling, with their clyents together, Like Iuie to Oake; so Veluet to Leather: Ha, boy, I would shew thee. So, this morning, There is a handsome Cutpurse hang’d at Tiborne, Whose spirit departed, you may enter his body: FIT. Today, I goe to the Black fryers Play-house, Sit it he view, salute all my acquaintance, Rise vp betweene the Acts, let fall my cloake, Publish a handsome man, and a rich suite (As that’s a speciall end, why we goe thither, All that pretend, to stand for ’t o’the Stage) WIT. The Diuell-giuen Elfine Squire, your husband, Doth leaue you, quitting heere his proper circle, For a much-worse i’ the walks of Lincolnes Inne, Vnder the Elmes, t’ expect the feind in vaine, there Will confesse for you. FIT. I’ll goe bespeake me straight a guilt caroch, For her and you to take the ayre in: yes, Into Hide-parke, and thence into Black-Fryers, Visit the painters, where you may see pictures, And note the properest limbs, and how to make ’hem. MER. Tell Mr. Wood-cock, I’ll not faile to meet him Vpon th’ Exchange at night. MER. Ingine, when did you see My cousin Euer-ill? keepes he still your quarter? I’ the Bermudas? Mrs. FI. And wish him to for-beare his acting to mee, At the Gentlemans chamber-window in Lincolnes-Inne there, That opens to my gallery: else, I sweare T’ acquaint my husband with his folly, and leaue him To the iust rage of his offended iealousie. GVI. Boy, boy, We liue, by finding fooles out, to be trusted. Our shop-bookes are our pastures, our corn-grounds, We lay ’hem op’n, for them to come into: And when wee haue ’hem there, wee driue ’hem vp In t’ one of our two Pounds, the Compters,I.e., either the Compter, Poultry or the Compter, Bread Street. streight, And this is to make you a Gentleman! MER. Out vpon ’t! And lose the laudable meanes, thou hast at home, heere, T’ aduance, and make him a young Alderman? Buy him a Captaines place, for shame; and let him Into the world, early, and with his plume, And Scarfes, march through Cheapside, or along Cornehill, And by the vertue’ of those, draw downe a wife There from a windo’, worth ten thousand pound! Get him the posture booke, and ’s leaden men, To set vpon a table, ’gainst his Mistresse Chance to come by, that hee may draw her in, And shew her Finsbury battells. MER. VVhy, I ha’ told you o’ this. This comes of wearing Scarlet, gold lace, and cut-works! your fine gartring! VVith your blowne roses, Cousin! and your eating Phesant, and Godwit, here in London! haunting The Globes, and Mermaides!I.e., victualling houses such as the Globe Tavern and Mermaid Tavern. MER. That he will, sure, But, these same Citizens, they are such sharks! There’s an old debt of forty, I ga’ my word For one is runne away, to the Bermudas, And he will hooke in that, or he wi’ not doe. MER. I knew, thou must take, after some body! Thou could’st not be else. This was no shop-looke! I’ll ha’ thee Captaine Guilt-head, and march vp, And take in Pimlico,, and kill the bush, At euery tauerne! FIT. Yes, here’s the ring: I ha’ seal’d. But there’s not so much gold in all the row, he saies— Till ’t come fro’ the Mint. ’Tis tane vp for the gamesters. WIT. As can be; Coach it to Pimlico; daunce the Saraband; Heare, and talke bawdy; laugh as loud, as a larum; Squeake, spring, do any thing. VVIT. VVee’ll see her Sir, at home, and leaue you here, To be made Duke o’ Shore-ditch with a proiect. MER. Well, and you went to a whore? AMB. No, Sr. I durst (not (For feare it might arriue at some body’s eare, It should not) trust my selfe to a common house; But got the Gentlewoman to goe with me, And carry her bedding to a Conduit-head, Hard by the place toward Tyborne, which they call My L. Majors Banqueting-house. AMB. But, that which greiu’d me, was The Gentlewomans shoes (with a paire of roses, And garters, I had giuen her for the businesse) So as that made vs stay, till it was darke. For I was faine to lend her mine, and walke In a rug, by her, barefoote, to Saint Giles’es. PVG. There it is, Sir, leaue me. To New-gate, brought? How is the name of Deuill Discredited in me! What a lost fiend Shall I be, on returne? ING. No, Child, in a Carre, The charriot of Triumph, which most of them are. And in the meane time, to be greazy, and bouzy, And nasty, and filthy, and ragged and louzy, With dam’n me, renounce me, and all the fine phrases; That bring, vnto Tiborne, the plentifull gazes. DIV. But, that I would not such a damn’d dishonor Sticke on our state, as that the diuell were hang’d; And could not saue a body, that he tooke From Tyborne, but it must come thither againe: You should e’en ride. But, vp away with him— SHA. O! such an accident falne out at Newgate, Sir: A great piece of the prison is rent downe! SHA. Hee’s gone, Sir, now, And left vs the dead body. But withall, Sir, Such an infernall stincke, and steame behinde, You cannot see St. Pulchars Steeple, yet. They smell’t as farre as Ware, as the wind lies, By this time, sure.