Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson studied under Camden at Westminster School, labored as a bricklayer and dragged a pike in the United Provinces. By 1597 he was acting in London, where he was twice jailed for offending the authorities. Jonson composed plays and masques and made a bid for the laureateship with the publication of his "Works" in 1616. Recently discovered evidence suggests that Jonson admired Spenser more than had been traditionally supposed.

TEXT RECORDS:

1606Epithalamion.
1608Epithalamion.
1616The Golden Age Restored.
1619Heads of a Conversation betwixt the Famous Poet Ben Johnson, and William Drummond of Hawthornden.
1623To the Memory of my beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us.
1632Epithalamion celebrating the Nuptials of Mr. Hierome Weston.
1635 ca.An Epigram to my Muse, the Lady Digby, on her Husband, Sir Kenelme Digby.
1635 ca.Timber, or Discoveries.
1641The Sad Shepherd: or a Tale of Robin Hood.

PUBLICATIONS:

The comical satyre of Every man out of his humor. 1600.
Every man in his humour. 1601.
The fountaine of selfe-love: or Cynthias revels. 1601.
Poetaster or the arraignment. 1602.
B. Jon: His part of King James his royall and magnificent entertainment. 1604.
Eastward hoe [with Chapman and Marston]. 1605.
Sejanus his fall. 1605.
Hymenaei: or the solemnities of masque, and barriers. 1606.
Volpone or the foxe. 1607.
The characters of two royall masques, the one of blacknesse, the other of beautie. 1608.
The description of a masque celebrating the marriage of John, Lord Ramsey. 1608.
Ben: Josnon, His case is altered. 1609.
The masque of queenes celebrated from the house of fame. 1609.
Cataline his conspiracy. 1611.
The alchemist. 1612.
A challenge at tilt. 1616.
The entertainment of the two kings of Great Britaine and Denmarke at Theobalds. 1616.
An entertainment of King James and Queene Anne at Theobalds. 1616.
Epicoene: or the silent woman. 1616.
Epigrammes. 1616.
The forrest. 1616.
The golden age restored. 1616.
The Irish masque. 1616.
Love freed from ignorance and folly. 1616.
Love restored. 1616.
Mercurie vindicated from the alchemists. 1616.
Oberon: the Faery prince. 1616.
A private entertainment of the King and Queen at Highgate. 1616.
The speeches at Prince Henries barriers. 1616.
The workes of Benjamin Jonson [includes the above]. 1616.
Lovers made men. A masque. 1617.
Epicoene, or the silent woman. A comodie. 1620.
The masque of augures. 1622.
Time vindicated to himselfe and to his honors. 1623.
Neptunes triumph for the returne of Albion. A masque. 1624.
The fortunate isles and their union. A masque. 1625.
Love's triumph through Callipolis. A masque. 1630.
Bartholomew fayre. The Divill is an asse. The staple of newes [Workes vol. 2]. 1631.
Chlorinda, Rites to Chloris and her nymphs. 1631.
The new inne: or the light heart. 1631.
The English grammar. 1640.
Execration against Vulcan, with divers epigrams. 1640.
The gypsies metamorphos'd. 1640.
Horace his art of poetrie. 1640.
The magnetique lady. 1640.
A tale of a tub. 1640.
The under-wood. 1640.
Workes [includes the above]. 1640.
Christmas his masque. 1641.
For the honour of Wales. 1641.
The kings entertainment at Welbeck. 1641.
Loves wel-come at Bolsover. 1641.
The masque of owles. 1641.
Newes from the new world discover'd in the moone. 1641.
Pans anniversarie: or the shepherds holy-day. 1641.
Pleasure reconciled to virtue. 1641.
The sad shepherd: or a tale of Robin Hood. 1641.
Timber: or discoveries made upon men and matter. 1641.
Works, ed. Peter Whalley. 7 vols, 1756.
Works, ed. C. H. Herford and P. Simpson. 11 vols, 1925-52.
Complete masques, ed. Steven Orgel. 1969.
Complete poems, ed. Ian Donaldson. 1975.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Catholic
Anglican
Dissenter

Westminster School
Poet Laureate
courtier

artisan
military
tutor
poet
dramatist

Edward Alleyn
Francis Bacon
Sir John Beaumont
Francis Beaumont
Richard Brome
Christopher Brooke
William Browne of Tavistock
William Camden
Thomas Carew
Rev. William Cartwright
Sir William Cavendish
George Chapman
Earl of Clarendon
Robert Cotton
Thomas Dekker
Rev. John Donne
Henry Chettle
Sir Kenelm Digby
Michael Drayton
William Drummond
Lucius Cary Falkland
John Fletcher
John Florio
Edmund Gayton
Sir Henry Goodere
William Habington
Bp. John Hacket
Herbert of Cherbury
William Herbert
Rev. Robert Herrick
Thomas Hobbes
Hugh Holland
Henry King
Shakerley Marmion
Rev. John Marston
Thomas May
Thomas Nashe
Henry Peacham
Sir Walter Raleigh
Thomas Randolph
Sir John Roe
Joseph Rutter
John Selden
William Shakespeare
James Shirley
John Taylor the Water Poet
John Weever
Henry Wotton
Countess of Pembroke
Countess of Rutland

REFERENCE:

DNB; NCBEL; DLB.

Bodenham, Bel-vedere (1600); Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England (1662); Edward Phillips, Theatrum Poetarum (1675); John Aubrey, Brief Lives (1669-1696) ed. Clark (1898) 2:11-16; William Winstanley, Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687); Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1690-91; 1721); Gerard Langbaine, Account of the English Dramatick Poets (1691); Blount, De re poetica (1694); Charles Gildon, Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (1699); Giles Jacob, Poetical Register (1719); Giles Jacob, An Historical Account of ... English Poets (1720); Lewis Theobald, "To Thomas Birch, on the Life of Jonson 10 August 1737" in Monthly Magazine 212 (February 1806) 40-41; Biographia Britannica (1747-66); "Life of Ben Jonson" London Magazine 22 (July 1753) 303-04 [portrait]; Cibber-Shiels, Lives of the Poets (1753); Life by Peter Whalley in Works (1756); "Ben Jonson" Literary Magazine or Universal Review 1 (August 1756) 169-71; "Life of Ben Jonson" Universal Magazine 24 (Supplement, 1759) 337-47 [portrait]; David Erskine Baker, Companion to the Play-House (1764); Thomas Percy, Reliques (1765); Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry (1774-81); "Life of Ben Jonson" Sentimental Magazine 3 (September 1775) 401-05; John Nichols, Select Collection of Poems (1780-82); Biographia Dramatica (1782; 1812); Philip Neve, Cursory Remarks on Ancient English Poets (1789) 39-43; George Ellis, Specimens of Early English Poetry (1790; 1801); Isaac D'Israeli, "Ben Jonson" Curiosities of Literature (1793) 2:114-24; Robert Anderson, British Poets (1795); Samuel Egerton Brydges, Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum (1800); Philip Neve, "Ben Jonson" Monthly Mirror 11 (January 1801) 22-24; Joseph Ritson, Bibliographia Poetica (1802) 259; William Oldys in Censura Literaria 1 (1805) 94-99; Peter L. Courtier, ed., Lyre of Love (1806); "Life of Ben Jonson" Monthly Mirror NS 2 (July 1807) 5-10 [portrait]; Alexander Chalmers, English Poets (1810); Alexander Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17); Isaac D'Israeli, "Ben Jonson and Thomas Dekker" Quarrels of Authors (1814); Bliss, Athenae Oxonienses (1815); J. M. F. Dovaston, "On Shakespeare and Ben Jonson" Monthly Magazine 39 (March 1815) 123-24; John Hamilton Reynolds, "Ben Jonson" The Champion (4 May 1817) 142; Nathan Drake, in Shakespeare and his Times (1817; 1838); Thomas Campbell, Specimens of the British Poets (1819); Ezekiel Sanford, British Poets (1819); John Aikin, Select Works of the British Poets (1820); Retrospective Review 1 (1820) 181-200; Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Biographical Magazine 1 (1829) [portrait]; "Ben Jonson's Works" Southern Review [Charleston] 6 (August 1830) 91-116; Richard Cattermole, Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (1836); "Jonsonian Readings" Southern Literary Messenger [Richmond] 5 (April 1839) 287-88; Robert Chambers, Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844); Edward Farr, Select Poetry, chiefly sacred, of the Reign of King James the First (1847); Mary Russell Mitford, "Ben Jonson" in Recollections (1852) 240-246; Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); The English Poets, ed. Thomas Humphry Ward (1880); F. E. Schelling, "Ben Jonson and the Classical School" PMLA 13 (1898) 221-49; Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05); R. F. Patterson, Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond (1923); Old Westminsters (1928); Austin Warren, "Pope and Ben Jonson" MLN 45 (1930) 86-88; Mary E. McClain, The Epithalamions of Spenser and of Jonson: A Comparative Study (Master's thesis, University of Arizona, 1936); R. G. Noyes, "Ben Jonson's Masques in the 18th Century" Studies in Philology 33 (1936) 427-36; Thomas P. Harrison, "Jonson's The Sad Shepherd and Spenser" Modern Language Notes 58 (1943) 257-62; George Burke Johnston, Ben Jonson: Poet (1945); Bush, OHEL (1945); Jackson I. Cope, "Jonson's Reading of Spenser: The Genesis of a Poem" English Miscellany 10 (1959) 61-66; G. Parfitt, Ben Jonson: Public Poet and Private Man (1977); Norman Council, "Ben Jonson, Inigo Jones, and the Transformation of Tudor Chivalry" ELH 47 (1980) 259-75; Anne Barton, "Harking back to Elizabeth: Ben Jonson and Caroline Nostalgia" ELH 48 (1981) 706-31; Mark Eccles, "Brief Lives" Studies in Philology 79 (1982); David C. Judkins, The Non-Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson: a Reference Guide (1982); Richard Helgerson, Self-Crowned Laureates (1983); Saunders, Renaissance Poets (1983); Timothy Cook, "Possible Recollection of Spenser in Jonson's 'Immortal Memory' Ode" Notes and Queries NS 32 (1985) 487; David Riggs, Ben Jonson: a Life (1989); Spenser Encyclopedia, "Jonson" (1990) 411-12; James A. Riddell and Stanley Stewart, Jonson's Spenser: Evidence and Historical Criticism (1995); Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Ben Jonson:

1.	1598  Francis Meres, in Palladis Tamia (1598) fol. 283.
2.	1603  Hugh Holland, "Ben Johnson. Ode" Holland, Pancharis (1603) sigs A7v-A10.
3.	1605  Hugh Holland, "To his worthy Friend, the Author" Jonson, Sejanus (1605) sig. Av2.
4.	1605  George Chapman, in Jonson, Sejanus (1605) sig. Av.
5.	1606  Anonymous, in Second Part of Returne from Pernassus (1606) Sig. B2v.
6.	1607  Francis Beaumont, "To my deare Friend, Mr. Benjamin Jonson, upon his Fox" Jonson, Volpone (1607) sig. A2.
7.	1607  George Chapman, "To his deare Friend, Mr. Benjamin Jonson his Volpone" Jonson, Volpone (1607) sig. A3.
8.	1611 ca.  John Davies of Hereford, "To my well accomplish'd friend Mr. Ben Johnson" in Scourge of Folly (1611 ca.); Davies, Works, ed. Grosart (1878) 2:26.
9.	1611  Francis Beaumont, "To my deare Friend, Mr. Ben: upon his Cataline" Jonson, Cataline (1611) sig. A3v.
10.	1611  John Fletcher, "To his worthy Friend Mr. Ben. Jonson" Jonson, Cataline (1611) sigs A3v-A4.
11.	1611  Nathaniel Field, "To his worthy Friend Mr. Ben. Jonson" Jonson, Cataline (1611) sig. A4.
12.	1612  John Taylor the Water Poet, "To my deere respected Friend Mr. Benjamin Johnson" Taylor, The Sculler, rowing from Tiber to Thames (1612) sig. A2v.
13.	1616  William Browne of Tavistock, in Britannia's Pastorals (1616) 2:37.
14.	1616  Edward Heyward, "To Ben Jonson, on his Workes" Jonson, Workes (1616) ¶4v.
15.	1617  Anonymous, in Wits Bedlam (1617); British Bibliographer 2 (1812) 264.
16.	1618 ca.  Edmund Bolton, 1618 ca.; in Hypercritica (1722) 237.
17.	1619  William Drummond, in "Heads of a Conversation [with] Ben Jonson" (1619); Works (1711) 224, 226.
18.	1620  Henry Peacham, "To Mr. Ben Johnson" Peacham, Thalias Banquet (1620) sig. A5v.
19.	1627  Michael Drayton, in "To Henry Reynolds" Battaile of Agincourt (1627) 207.
20.	1632 ca.  Thomas Randolph, "A Gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son" 1632 ca.; Randolph, Poems (1638) 22-24.
21.	1637  Henry King, "Upon Ben. Johnson" Jonsonius Virbius (1637) 16-18.
22.	1637  Rev. William Cartwright, "To the Memory of the most worthy Benjamin Johnson" Jonsonus Virbius (1637) 34-39.
23.	1637  John Suckling, in "A Sessions of the Poets" 1637; Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea (1646) 7-8.
24.	1638  Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland, "An Eglogue on the Death of Ben Johnson" Jonsonius Virbius: or the Memorie of Ben Johnson revived (1638) 1-9.
25.	1638  Thomas May, "An Elegie upon Benjamin Johnson" Jonsonius Virbius: or the Memorie of Ben Johnson revived (1638) 21.
26.	1638  Edmund Waller, "Upon Ben: Johnson, the most excellent of Comick Poets" Jonsonius Virbius: or the Memorie of Ben Johnson revived (1638) 30-31.
27.	1638  Joseph Rutter, "An Elegy upon Ben: Johnson" Jonsonius Virbius: or the Memorie of Ben Johnson revived (1638) 40-41.
28.	1638  Shakerley Marmion, "A Funerall Sacrifice, to the sacred Memory of his thrice honoured Father Ben. Johnson" Jonsonius Virbius: or the Memorie of Ben Johnson revived (1638) 47-49.
29.	1638  Owen Feltham, "To the Memory of immortal Ben" Jonsonius Virbius: or the Memorie of Ben Johnson revived (1638) 42-44.
30.	1638  William Habington, "An Elegy upon the Death of Ben Johnson, the most excellent of English Poets" Jonsonius Virbius (1638); Bradley, Jonson Allusion Book (1922) 220-21.
31.	1639  Thomas Bancroft, "To Ben Jonson" Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639) sig. B.
32.	1640  Anonymous, "To Mr. Benjamin Johnson" Wits Recreations (1640) sig. B4v.
33.	1640  Anonymous, "B. H. Approbation of a Copy of Verse" Wits Recreations (1640) sig. D7v.
34.	1640  Anonymous, "To Mr. Ben. Johnson demanding the Reason why he call'd his Playes Works" Wits Recreations (1640) sig. G3v.
35.	1646  Samuel Sheppard, in The Times displayed in Six Sestyads (1646) 22.
36.	1648  Robert Herrick, "Upon Mr. Ben. Johnson. Epig." Herrick, Hesperides (1648) 173.
37.	1651  Samuel Sheppard, "The Poets Invitation to Ben Johnsons Ghost to appeare again" Epigrams (1651) 88-89.
38.	1658  Anonymous, "A Letter to Ben. Jonson" Wit Restor'd (1658) 79-81.
39.	1659  Anonymous, "An Elegie upon Ben. Johnson" J. Cleaveland Revived (1659) 20-25.
40.	1659  Anonymous, "An Elegie on Ben. Johnson" J. Cleaveland Revived (1659) 43-47.
41.	1659  Anonymous, "An Epitaph on Ben. Johnson" J. Cleaveland Revived (1659) 55-56.
42.	1663  Anonymous, "On Ben: Johnson" Recreation for Ingenious Head-peeces (1663) sig. O5v.
43.	1663  Anonymous, "Another on Ben: J." Recreation for Ingenious Head-peeces (1663) sig. O5v.
44.	1670 ca.  Lord Clarendon, 1670 ca.; Censura Literaria 9 (1809) 340n.
45.	1675  Edward Phillips, in Theatrum Poetarum (1675) 2:19.
46.	1678  John Oldham, "Upon the Works of Ben. Johnson. Written in 1678. Ode" Oldham, Poems, and Translations (1683) 69-86.
47.	1682  Thomas Shadwell, in The Tory Poets (1682) 9.
48.	1683  John Dryden, in William Soame, trans., Art of Poetry (1683) 51-52.
49.	1687  William Winstanley, in Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) 124.
50.	1689  Edward Howard, in Caroloiades (1689) 137-38.
51.	1699  Charles Gildon, in Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (1699) 77.
52.	1700  Samuel Cobb, in Poetae Britannici (1700) 10-11.
53.	1711  Elijah Fenton, in "Epistle to Thomas Southerne" 1711; Poems (1717) 70.
54.	1720  Giles Jacob, in Historical Account of the Lives and Writings of our most considerable English Poets (1720) 272-75.
55.	1726  Anonymous, "On Ben Jonson's Bust, lately set up in Westminster Abbey, with the Buttons on the wrong Side" D. Lewis, Miscellaneous Poems by Several Hands (1726) 148.
56.	1726  Anonymous, "On Ben Johnson's Club-Room, call'd the Apollo; at the Devil-Tavern in Fleet-street" D. Lewis, Miscellaneous Poems by Several Hands (1726) 71.
57.	1738  Anonymous, in "The Apotheosis of Milton" Gentleman's Magazine 8 (May 1738) 234.
58.	1738  Anonymous, "On the Sign of Ben Jonson" London Evening Post (2 November 1738).
59.	1749  Anonymous, in Westminster Abbey, an Heroic Poem (1749) 19.
60.	1750 ca.  William Oldys, "Ben Jonson" Censura Literaria 1 (1805) 1:94-99.
61.	1761  Charles Churchill, in The Rosciad (1761); Poetical Works of Charles Churchill, ed. William Tooke (1804) 1:20.
62.	1771  Anonymous, "Epigram on Mr. Francis Gentleman's late alteration of some of Ben Jonson's Plays" Scots Magazine 33 (September 1771) 485.
63.	1779  J. H., in "Stanzas, occasion'd by a late Visit to the Poet's Corner, in Westminster-Abbey" Westminster Magazine 7 (June 1779) 303.
64.	1784  Joseph Warton to John Nichols, 18 April 1784; in Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the XVIII Century (1812-15) 6:172-73.
65.	1793  Isaac D'Israeli, in Curiosities of Literature (1793) 2:114.
66.	1795  Robert Anderson, in Works of the British Poets (1795) 4:527-28.
67.	1797  Joseph Warton, in Works of Alexander Pope, ed. Warton (1796-97) 9:447n.
68.	1799  William Seward, in Biographiana (1799) 2:411-12.
69.	1800  Nathan Drake, in Literary Hours (1800) 2:166-67.
70.	1805  Henry John Todd, in Works of Spenser (1805) 1:cxxxvi-vii.
71.	1805  C., "On the Dramatic Powers of Shakspeare and Jonson" European Magazine 47 (March 1805) 211.
72.	1817  John Hamilton Reynolds, in "Ben Jonson" The Champion (4 May 1817) 142.
73.	1819  Thomas Campbell, in "Essay on English Poetry" Specimens of the British Poets (1819; 1841) lxiii-lxv.
74.	1820  William Hazlitt, in Lectures chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (1820; 1845) 151.
75.	1820  Anonymous, in Retrospective Review 1 (1820) 183.
76.	1823  J. C. B., "Ben Jonson's Grave" Gentleman's Magazine 93 (September 1823) 227-28.
77.	1824  Bryan Waller Procter, in Effigies Poeticae, or, the Portraits of the British Poets (1824) 27-29.
78.	1830  Anonymous, in "Ben Jonson's Works" Southern Review [Charleston] 6 (August 1830) 113-14.
79.	1834  Robert Aris Willmott, in Lives of Sacred Poets (1834) 107-08.
80.	1835  L. L., in "English Poets" Southern Literary Messenger [Richmond] 1 (June 1835) 561.
81.	1836  Richard Cattermole, in Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (1836) 2:79.
82.	1837  Henry Hallam, in Introduction to the Literature of Europe of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries (1837-39; 1882) 3:258.
83.	1842  C. H. Timperley, in Encyclopaedia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote (1842) 2:491.
84.	1844  Leigh Hunt, in Imagination and Fancy (1844) 197.
85.	1847  Edward Farr, in Select Poetry, chiefly sacred, of the Reign of King James the First (1847) xxii.
86.	1852  Mary Russell Mitford, "Old Authors. Ben Jonson" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 240-46.
87.	1860  George Gilfillan, in Specimens with Memoirs of the less-known British Poets (1860) 1:253-54.
88.	1880  A. W. Ward, in The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions, ed. Thomas Humphry Ward (1880) 2:1-7.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Ben Jonson:

1.	1662  Thomas Fuller, in History of the Worthies of England (1662) 2:243.
2.	1690  Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1690-91; 1721) 1:108-10.
3.	1691  Gerard Langbaine, in Account of the English Dramatick Poets (1691) 281-306.
4.	1719  Giles Jacob, in Poetical Register: or the Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (1719) 146-52.
5.	1753  Anonymous, in Cibber-Shiels, Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) 1:235-43.
6.	1764  David Erskine Baker, in Companion to the Play-House (1764) 2:Sig. T4.
7.	1769  James Granger, in Biographical History of England (1769; 1824) 2:125.
8.	1802  Joseph Ritson, Bibliographia Poetica (1802) 259.
9.	1812  Stephen Jones, in Biographia Dramatica; or, A Companion to the Playhouse (1812) 1:413-14.
10.	1812  Alexander Chalmers, in General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17) 19:140-59.
11.	1817  Nathan Drake, in Shakespeare and His Time (1817, 1832) 306, 611-15.
12.	1820  John Aikin, in Select Works of the British Poets (1820) 1.
13.	1844  Robert Chambers, in Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844; 1850) 1:112, 191-93.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1600  Nicholas Breton:   Ben Jonson, in Breton, Melancholike Humours (1600) sig A4v.
2.	1608  Joshua Sylvester:   Ben Jonson, "Epigram. To M. Josuah Sylvester" Joshua Sylvester, Bartas, his Devine Weekes and Workes (1608) sig. B6v.
3.	1614  Christopher Brooke:   Ben Jonson, "To his Friend the Author upon his Richard" Brooke, The Ghost of Richard the Third (1614) 6.
4.	1616  Edward Alleyn:   Ben Jonson, "To Edward Allen" Jonson, Workes (1616) 793.
5.	1616  Francis Beaumont:   Ben Jonson, "To Francis Beaumont" Jonson, Workes (1616) 783.
6.	1616  William Browne of Tavistock:   Ben Jonson, "To my truly-belov'd Freind" Britannia's Pastorals, The Second Book (1616) Sig. A5v.
7.	1616  William Camden:   Ben Jonson, "To William Camden" Jonson, Workes (1616) 772-73.
8.	1616  Rev. John Donne:   Ben Jonson, "To John Donne" Jonson, Workes (1616) 775.
9.	1616  Rev. John Donne:   Ben Jonson, "To John Donne" Jonson, Workes (1616) 797.
10.	1616  Sir Henry Goodere:   Ben Jonson, "To Sir Henry Goodyere" Jonson, Workes (1616) 791-92.
11.	1616  Sir Henry Goodere:   Ben Jonson, "To Sir Henry Goodyere" Jonson, Workes (1616) 792.
12.	1616  Sir Thomas Overbury:   Ben Jonson, "To Sir Thomas Overbury" Jonson, Workes (1616) 805-06.
13.	1616  Sir John Roe:   Ben Jonson, "On Sir John Roe" Jonson, Workes (1616) 775-76.
14.	1616  Sir John Roe:   Ben Jonson, "On Sir John Roe" Jonson, Workes (1616) 777.
15.	1616  Sir John Roe:   Ben Jonson, "On Sir John Roe" Jonson, Workes (1616) 777.
16.	1616  John Weever:   Ben Jonson, Epigram XVIII; Works (1616).
17.	1618  George Chapman:   Ben Jonson, "To my worthy and honour'd Friend Mr. George Chapman, on his Translation of Hesiods Works, and Dayes" The Georgicks of Hesiod, by George Chapman (1618) sig. A4v.
18.	1619  Samuel Daniel:   Ben Jonson, Conversation with Drummond (1619); Drummond, Works (1711) 225.
19.	1619  Rev. John Donne:   Ben Jonson, Conversation with Drummond, 1619; Drummond, Works (1711) 225.
20.	1619  William Drummond:   Ben Jonson, Conversation with Drummond (1619); Drummond, Works (1711) 226.
21.	1619  Sir John Harington:   Ben Jonson, Conversation with Drummond (1619); Drummond, Works (1711) 225.
22.	1619  Rev. John Marston:   Ben Jonson, Conversation with Drummond (1619); Drummond, Works (1711) 225.
23.	1627  Michael Drayton:   Ben Jonson, "The Vision of Ben Jonson, on the Muses of his Friend, M. Drayton" Drayton, Battaile of Agincourt (1627) sigs a-a1.
24.	1627  Thomas May:   Ben Jonson, "To my chosen Friend, the learned Translator of Lucan, Thomas May, Esquire" May, Lucan's Pharsalia (1627) sig. A7.
25.	1629  Sir John Beaumont:   Ben Jonson, "On the honor'd Poems of his honored Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet" Beaumont, Bosworth-field (1629) sig. (a)v.
26.	1635 ca.  Sir William Cavendish:   Ben Jonson, "An Epigram. To William Earle of Newcastle" 1635 ca.; Jonson, Underwoods (1641) 226-27.
27.	1635 ca.  Sir Kenelm Digby:   Ben Jonson, "An Epigram to my Muse, the Lady Digby, on her Husband" 1635 ca.; Jonson, Underwoods (1641) 245-46.
28.	1635  Joseph Rutter:   Ben Jonson, "To my deare Sonne, and right-learned Friend, Master Joseph Rutter" Rutter, The Shepheards Holy-day" sig. A3-A3v.
29.	1640  John Taylor the Water Poet:   Ben Jonson, in Timber, or Discoveries (1640) 97.