FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 102: This play, Langbaine says, is written by Shakspeare.]

[Footnote 103: He had the palsy at that time.]

[Footnote 104: The names of several of Jonson's dramatis personæ.]

[Footnote 105: New Inn, Act iii. Scene 2.--Act iv. Scene 4.]

[Footnote 106: This break was purposely designed by the poet, to expose

that singular one in Ben's third stanza.]

[Footnote 107: His man, Richard Broome, wrote with success several

comedies. He had been the amanuensis or attendant of Jonson. The epigram

made against Pope for the assistance W. Broome gave him appears to have

been borrowed from this pun. Johnson has inserted it in "Broome's

Life."]

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