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ENOX LIBRARY

NEW YORK

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

GEORGE CANNING,

PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL FOR

INDIA, &c. &c.

THIS EDITION

OF THE

WORKS OF BEN JONSON,

IN TESTIMONY

OF THE SINCEREST ADMIRATION OF HIS
TRANSCENDENT TALENTS,

OF THE

HIGHEST RESPECT FOR HIS PUBLIC PRINCIPLES
AND PRIVATE VIRTUES,

AND IN

GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT

OF THE FRIENDSHIP WITH WHICH, FOR A LONG
SERIES OF YEARS, HE HAS HONOURED THE
EDITOR, IS, WITH PRIDE AND PLEASURE

MOST AFFECTIONATELY

INSCRIBED.

July 3d, 1816.

MEMOIRS

OF

BEN JONSON.

To write the Life of Jonson as it has been usually written, would be neither a very long nor a very difficult task; since I should have only to transcribe from former biographers the vague accounts which each, in succession, has taken from his predecessor; and to season the whole with the captious and splenetic insinuations of the critics, and commentators on our dramatic poetry. A due respect for the public seemed to require something more. It was fully time to examine into the authenticity of the charges incessantly urged against this eminent man; and this has been, at least, attempted. The result has not accorded with the general persuasion concerning him. The reader, therefore, who has the courage to follow me through these pages, must be prepared to see many of his prejudices over

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