TTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}.
{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH VARIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH VARIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH OXIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}."

"The Devil Is An Ass."

Act i. sc. 1.--

"_Pug._ Why any: Fraud,
Or Covetousness, or lady Vanity,
Or old Iniquity, _I'll call him hither_."

"The words in italics should probably be given to the
master-devil, Satan."--Whalley's note.

That is, against all probability, and with a (for Jonson) impossible
violation of character. The words plainly belong to Pug, and mark at once
his simpleness and his impatience.

_Ib._ sc. 4. Fitz-dottrel's soliloquy.

Compare this exquisite piece of sense, satire, and sound philosophy in
1616 with Sir M. Hale's speech from the bench in a trial of a witch many
years afterwards.

Act ii. sc. 1. Meercraft's speech:--

"Sir, money's a whore, a bawd, a drudge."

I doubt not that "money" was the first word of the line, and has dropped
out:--

"Money! Sir, money's a," &c.

"The Staple Of News."

Act iv. sc. 3. Pecunia's speech:--

"No, he would ha' done,
That lay not in his power: he had the use
Of your bodies, Band and Wax, and sometimes Statute's."

Read (1815)--

... "he had the use of
Your bodies," &c.

Now, however, I doubt the legitimacy of my transposition of the "of" from
the beginning of this latter line to the end of the one preceding;--for
though it facilitates the metre and reading of the latter line, and is
frequent in Massinger, this disjunction of the preposition from its case
seems to have been disallowed by Jonson. Perhaps the better reading is--

"O' your bodies," &c.--

the two syllables being slurred into one, or rather snatched, or sucked,
up into the emphasised "your." In all p