Prose

# Title
1 From Thomas Palmer, The Sprite of Trees and Herbs (1599) M
2 From Nicholas Breton, Melancholic Humours (1600), ‘In Authorem’ M
3 Fragments from England’s Parnassus (1600) M
4 Elegy on Thomas Nashe, ‘Ad Carissimam Memoriam Thomae Nashi’ (1601) M
5 From Robert Chester, Love's Martyr, 'The Phoenix Analysed' (1601) M
6 From Robert Chester, Love's Martyr, Ode ‘ἔνϑουσιαστιϰκὴ’ [‘Splendour! O more than mortal’] (1601) M
7 Ode (‘If men and times were now’) M
8 An Epistle to a Friend (‘Censure not sharply, then’) M
9 A Speech out of Lucan (‘Just and fit actions, Ptolemy, he saith’) M
10 From Hugh Holland, Pancharis (1603), Ode ἀλληγοριϰκὴ (‘Who saith our times nor have, nor can’) M
11 A Panegyre on the Happy Entrance of James ... to His First High Session of Parliament (1604) M
12 A Panegyre on the Happy Entrance of James ... to His First High Session of Parliament: (1604 quarto) O
13 A Panegyre on the Happy Entrance of James ... to His First High Session of Parliament: (1616 folio) O
14 From Thomas Wright, The Passions of the Mind in General (1604), ‘To the Author’ M
15 From John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess (1609-10), ‘To the Worthy Author, Master John Fletcher’ M
16 From Coryate’s Crudities (1611), ‘Certain Opening and Drawing Distichs’ M
17 From Coryate’s Crudities (1611), ‘The Character of the Famous Odcombian’ M
18 From Coryate’s Crudities (1611), ‘To the Right Noble Tom Tell-Truth of His Travails’ M
19 From Coryate’s Crambe (1611), ‘Certain Verses’ M
20 From Thomas Farnaby’s edition of Juvenal, Persius, and Seneca (1612), Juvenal, ‘Temporibus lux magna fuit Iuvenalis avitis’ M
21 From Thomas Farnaby’s edition of Juvenal, Persius, and Seneca (1612), Persius, ‘Cum Iuvenale tuo, Farnabi, Persius exit’ M
22 From Thomas Farnaby’s edition of Juvenal, Persius, and Seneca (1612), Seneca, ‘Commoedias trustalis Plauti mola’ ‘ M
23 A Speech Presented unto King James at a Tilting, in the Behalf of the Two Noble Brothers (1613) M
24 From John Stephens, Cynthia’s Revenge (1613), ‘To His Much and Worthily Esteemed Friend the Author’ M
25 Martial, Epigram 10.47 translated (‘The things that make the happier life are these’) M
26 To the Most Noble, and Above His Titles, Robert, Earl of Somerset (1613) M
27 From Christopher Brooke, The Ghost of Richard the Third (1614), ‘To His Friend the Author Upon His Richard’ M
28 From The Husband (1614), ‘To the Worthy Author’ M
29 From William Browne, Britannia’s Pastorals (1616), To My Truly-Beloved Friend’ M
30 Epigrams (1616) M
31 Epigrams: (1616 folio) O
32 Epigrams: (1640 quarto) O
33 Epigrams: (1640 duodecimo) O
34 The Forest (1616) M
35 The Forest: (1616 folio) O
36 A Grace by Ben Jonson Extempore Before King James [in three versions] (1617-18) M
37 From The Georgics of Hesiod, translated by George Chapman (1618), ‘To My Worthy and Honoured Friend’ M
38 To Master Ben Jonson in his Journey by Master Craven, [and] This Was Master Ben Jonson’s Answer of the Sudden (1618) M
39 Charles Cavendish to His Posterity M
40 Ben Jonson’s Sociable Rules for the Apollo, trans. Alexander Brome M
41 Verses Over the Door at the Entrance into the Apollo (1619) M
42 From James Mabbe, The Rogue (1622), ‘On the Author, Work, and Translator’ M
43 From Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1623), ‘To the Reader’ M
44 From Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1623), ‘To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Master William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left Us’ M
45 To the Memory of That Most Honoured Lady Jane ... Ogle (1625) M
46 From Lucan’s Pharsalia (1627), ‘To My Chosen Friend The Learned Translator of Lucan, Thomas May, Esquire’ M
47 From The Battle of Agincourt (1627), ‘The Vision of Ben Jonson on the Muses of his Friend Michael Drayton’ M
48 Ode to Himself (‘Come, leave the loathed stage’) (1629) M
49 Epitaph on Katherine, Lady Ogle (1629) M
50 From John Beaumont, Bosworth Field (1629), ‘On the Honoured Poems of his Honoured Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet’ M
51 From Edward Filmer, French Court Airs (1629), ‘To My Worthy Friend, Master Edward Filmer’ M
52 An Expostulation with Inigo Jones (1631) M
53 To Inigo, Marquis Would-be: A Corollary (1631) M
54 To a Friend: An Epigram of Him (1631) M
55 To My Detractor J[ohn] E[liot] (1632) M
56 From Richard Brome, The Northern Lass (1632), ‘To My Old Faithful Servant ... Master Richard Brome’ M
57 An Answer to Alexander Gil (1632) M
58 A Song of Welcome to King Charles (1633) M
59 A Song of the Moon (1633) M
60 From Alice Sutcliffe, Meditations of Man’s Mortality (1634), ‘To Mistress Alice Sutcliffe, on Her Divine Meditations’ M
61 From Joseph Rutter, The Shepherd’s Holiday (1635), ‘To My Dear Son and Right Learned Friend, Master Joseph Rutter’ M
62 From Annalia Dubrensia (1636), ‘An Epigram to My Jovial Good Friend Master Robert Dover’ M
63 Horace His Art of Poetry, Made English by Ben Jonson (printed 1641) M
64 Horace His Art of Poetry: (1640-1 folio) O
65 The Underwood (printed 1641) M
66 The Underwood: (1640-1 folio) O
67 The Underwood: (1640 quarto) O