16
This rogue has the jowl of a jailor
By Canter, in The Staple of News (1.3.11), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

12
you mine-men want no money.
By PennyBoyJr, in The Staple of News (1.3.57), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

Your streets are paved with it: there the moulten silver
runns out like creame on cakes of gold:
By PennyBoyJr, in The Staple of News (1.3.58-59), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

and rubies
Do grow like strawberries
By Canter, in The Staple of News (1.3.60-61), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

17
Broad ribbons laid out like labels
By Picklock, in The Staple of News (1.6.5-6), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

18
She is the talk of the time the adventure of the age
By Canter, in The Staple of News (1.6.61-62), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

all the world are suitors to her
By Canter, in The Staple of News (1.6.65), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

all sorts of men and all professions
By Picklock, in The Staple of News (1.6.66), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

20.
He is the very justice of peace in the play, and can commit whom he will and
what he will, error absurdity, as the toy takes him, and no man say
black is his eye but laugh at him.
By Tattle, in The Staple of News (Intermean1.18-19), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

ib: its a wise play yt has not
a foole in it.
By Tattle, in The Staple of News (Intermean1.21), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

26
What plovers that they have brought to pull
By PennyBoySr, in The Staple of News (2.3.82-83), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

28
a sodden head, and his whole brain a posset curd
By Almanac, in The Staple of News (2.4.53), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

29
meaning mony
my good Lord piece doth all, (meaning mony)
By PennyBoySr, in The Staple of News (2.4.107), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

33
I have my desire, si to behold
yt youth and shape, with in my dreams and wakes
I have so oft contemplated, and felt
warme in my veines, and native as my blood.
By Pecunia, in The Staple of News (2.5.50-53), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

41
Go: Puritan
Fit: it will cost you a shilling.
By Register, in The Staple of News (3.2.137-139), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

43
your meat should be served in with curious dances,
and set upon the board with virgin hands,
tured to their voices; not a dish removed,
but to the music, nor a drop of wine,
mized, with his water, with out harmony.
By Cymbal, in The Staple of News (3.2.230-234), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

ibid
virtue and honesty, hang them; poor thin membranes
of honour; who respects them?
By Canter, in The Staple of News (3.2.245-46), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

46.
Yes, You'll drink, doctor, (If there be any good meat) as much good wine as would lay up a dutch ambassador
By Shunfield, in The Staple of News (3.3.11-13), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69

say that you were the emperor of pleasures
the great dictator of fashions for all Europe:
By PennyBoySr, in The Staple of News (3.4.57-58), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69v

you must go to bed,
and take your natural rest, then all this vanished
your bravery was but shown, t was not possessed.
By PennyBoySr, in The Staple of News (3.4.61-63), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69v

29
In Silver Street, the region of money, a good seat for a usurer
By Mirth, in The Staple of News (Intermean3.3), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69v

52
A master cook! Why he's the man of men.
for a professor. / he designs he draws,
he paints, he carves, he builds, he fortifies,
makes citadales of curious fowl and fish,
By Lickfinger, in The Staple of News (4.2.19-22), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69v

some he dry- ditches , some mossesmoats round with broths
mounts marrow-bones, cuts fifty angled custards,
rears bulwark pies, and for his outer- works
he raiseth ramparts of immortal crust;
and teacheth all the tactics at one dinner:
what ranks, what files, to put his dishes in;
the whole art military. Then he knows
the influence of the stars upon his meats
he has nature in a pot, bove all ye chemists
he is an architect an engineer
a soldier, a physician, a philosopher,
a general mathematician.
By Lickfinger, in The Staple of News (4.2.23-37), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69v

A lady the graces taught to moue!
By Fitton, in The Staple of News (4.2.59-76), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69v

A theme that s overcome with her own matter Praise is struck blind and deaf and dumb with her;
She doth astonish commendation.
By Shunfield, in The Staple of News (4.2.77-79), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70

55.
Who'd lie in a room with a close stool and garlic.
By Madrigal, in The Staple of News (4.2.174), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70

56
sack hath seized on him in the shape of sleep.
By Lickfinger, in The Staple of News (4.3.4-5), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70

57. Consult your Dogs, the lares of your family.
By PennyBoyJr, in The Staple of News (4.3***), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70

59.
with all your fly-blown projects,
and looks out of the politics, your shut faces,
and reserved questions and answers as
'Is't a clear business? will it mannage well?
my name must not be used else. Here, t’will dash,
Your business hath received a taint, give off,
I may not prostitute myself. tut, tut
that little dust I can blow of at pleasure.
Here's no such mountain, yet, i'the whole work
but a light purse may level. I will tide
this affair / for you; give it freight and passage.
and such mint-phrase; as tis the worst of canting,
by how much it affects the sense, it has not
By Canter, in The Staple of News (4.4.63-75), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70

62.
And lie in wait for a piece of wit like a mouse-trap.
By Mirth, in The Staple of News (4.4.27), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70

65.
a narrow-minded man, whose thoughts do dwell
all in a lane, or line indeed; no turning. not scarce obliquity in them I still look
right forward to the intent, and scope of than
which he would go from now.
By Picklock, in The Staple of News (5.1.74-8), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70

66.
It is a thing of greater consequence
then to be born about in a black box
like a low-country Verlof, or welsh- brief.
By Picklock, in The Staple of News (5.1.87-89), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70

ib:
a riged oldold man
An austere grape; that has no juice but what is verjuice in him.
By Picklock, in The Staple of News (5.1.96-97), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70

ib:
a piece worthy my nightcap of a politician
By Picklock, in The Staple of News (5.1.*), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70

67.
a prodigal, a tub with out a bottom.
By Picklock, in The Staple of News (5.1.29-30), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70

68.
canst thou deny it?
By PennyBoyJr, in The Staple of News (5.1.48-53), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70

ib:
no court grants out a writ of summons for the conscience, that I know, nor sub-poena, nor
attachment.
By Picklock, in The Staple of News (5.2.63-64), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70

pag: 11
A broken sleeve keeps the arm back
By PennyBoyJr, in The Staple of News (1.2.121-123), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70

69
your ears, Sir, are in my pocket. speak by one to a lawyer by one that could make
him loose his ears. and therefore afterwards called him crop in reversion
By Canter, in The Staple of News (5.2.83), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70v

69.
do do my gowned vulture, crop in reversion: I shall see you quoited
over the bar, as barge-men do their billets
By Canter, in The Staple of News (5.2.93-95), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70v

ib:
Who, I?
By Picklock, in The Staple of News (5.3.5-6), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70v

70.
no vows, no promises: too much protestation
makes that suspected oft, we would persuade.
By Canter, in The Staple of News (5.3.25-26), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70v

74.
superstition doth violate the diety it worships
no less than scorn doth
By Canter, in The Staple of News (5.6.23-25), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70v

75.
Whom I have safe enough in a wooden collar
By Canter, in The Staple of News (5.6.50), Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70v