Every Man out of his Humour - Results found: 36
Plays Jonson: Jonson, Everyman out of his humour
A man well-parted,
a sufficient scholar, and travelled, who, wanting that place in the world's account which he thinks his merit capable of, falls into such an envious apoplexy, with which his judgement is so dazzled and distasted
By [description from the character list: Macilente],
in Every Man out of his Humour (CharacterList 6-9 Macilente),
Ben Jonson
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 39v
Envy
hate
The
true condition of envy is Dolor
alienae felicitatis
: to have our eyes continually fixed upon another man’s prosperity – that is, his chief happiness – and to grieve at that. Whereas if we make his monstrous and abhorred actions our object, the grief we take then comes nearer the nature of hate than envy, as being bred out of a kind of contempt and loathing in ourselves. Right, for what a man truly envies in another, he
could always love and cherish in himself;
By Cordatus,
in Every Man out of his Humour (1.3.151-160),
Ben Jonson
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 39v