ABSTRACT

Text from Ben Jonson, ed. C.H.Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, 11 vols, Oxford, 1925-52.

(a) Every Man Out of His Humour (1599), II.iii.221-6, III.v.28-9.

Fastidius Briske: [Saviolina’s wit] flowes from her like nectar, and shee doth give it, that sweet, quick grace, and exornation in the composure, that…shee does observe as pure a phrase, and use as choise figures as any be i’ the Arcadia.