Arber, Jonson Anthology, 1901;
Underwoods, Cambridge University Press, 1905;
Lyrics (Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher), the Chap Books,
No. 4, 1906;
Songs (from Plays, Masques, etc.), with earliest known setting,
Eragny Press, 1906.


LIFE. --
See Memoirs affixed to Works;
J. A. Symonds (English Worthies), 1886;
Notes of Ben Jonson Conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden;
Shakespeare Society, 1842;
ed. with Introduction and Notes by P. Sidney, 1906;
Swinburne, A Study of Ben Jonson, 1889.


SEJANUS: HIS FALL
TO THE NO LESS NOBLE BY VIRTUE THAN BLOOD
ESME LORD AUBIGNY


My LORD,-If ever any ruin were so great as to survive, I think this
be one I send you, The Fall of Sejanus. It is a poem, that, if I
well remember, in your lordship's sight, suffered no less violence
from our people here, than the subject of it did from the rage of
the people of Rome; but with a different fate, as, I hope, merit:
for this hath outlived their malice, and begot itself a greater
favour than he lost, the love of good men. Amongst whom, if I make
your lordship the first it thanks, it is not without a just,