Authority Cited: [Jonson] Johnson, Ben
Author name and dates: Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637)
BKG Bio-tweet: Well educated; apprentice mason; author of celebrated plays, masques, still-read poems; “h” in 1641 Grammar, Abbey inscrip.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 240 B. Johnson [Jonson] cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and about 300 cites in Dict. vol. 2. 14 B. Johnson cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. Text citations in the 1773 Dict. are often shortened to Ben Johnson or B. Johnson. One volume of Ben. Jonson's works was issued in 1616, and a posthumous Works in two volumes, The vvorkes of Beniamin Ionson. was issued in 1640/41, London : Printed by John Beale, James Dawson, Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcet for Richard Meighen and Thomas Walkley). A one volume 1692 edition of the Works was issued. Because SJ quotes from "Ben. Johnson's New-Inn," and Under-woods his use of the either the 1692 edition or the edition issued in 1716 is likely: The works of Ben. Johnson. In six volumes. Adorn'd with cuts, 1716, London: Printed for J. Walthoe, M. Wotton, J. Nicholson, J. Sprint, G. Conyers, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, T. Ballard, B. Cowse, J. Tonson, and W. Innys (see New Inn and Tavern Academy below).
The quotes in 1755 Dict. Vol. 1 appear to be exclusively from volumes 3, 5, and 6 of the 1716 Works. This may reinforce the case for SJ's use of the 1716 edition. Two citations to 1716 Works vol. 1 were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. that may be from the 1756 Works edition.
Greene in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, opines that the five Johnson volumes of lot 123 5. vols. of Ben Johnson's works, &c. of the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., are from the seven volume 1756 Whalley edition. Although these could be from the six volume 1716 edition, one of two quotations from Every Man in His Humour added in the 1773 Dict. uses the spelling of the 1756 Works.
Prof. Beth Young, U. of Central Florida, points out, June 2024, that the OED says the word "congrument" is "An error in Johnson founded on a misprint for congruent in an ed. of Ben Jonson." Young also notes that this "misprint" is in the 1716, but not the 1756 edition. The "misprint" also occurs in the 1692 Works (Timber or Discoveries). The first publication of Discoveries was in the second volume of the 1640 Works, and reads "congruent," which seems to be evidence that SJ did not use the 1640 Works for the 1755 Dictionary.]
[BKG format note: brackets [ ] around a headword below indicates that the title of the work was not included in the Dict. author citation, but the headword has been verified as to text title. Page references are to the indicated volumes of the 1716 Works. Very few B. Johnson text titles are included in Dict. Vol. 2. Nearly all the Dict. Vol. 1 B. Johnson cites have been traced to a text title. This has not been done for Dict. Vol. 2.]
Author name and dates: Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637)
BKG Bio-tweet: Well educated; apprentice mason; author of celebrated plays, masques, still-read poems; “h” in 1641 Grammar, Abbey inscrip.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 240 B. Johnson [Jonson] cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and about 300 cites in Dict. vol. 2. 14 B. Johnson cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. Text citations in the 1773 Dict. are often shortened to Ben Johnson or B. Johnson. One volume of Ben. Jonson's works was issued in 1616, and a posthumous Works in two volumes, The vvorkes of Beniamin Ionson. was issued in 1640/41, London : Printed by John Beale, James Dawson, Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcet for Richard Meighen and Thomas Walkley). A one volume 1692 edition of the Works was issued. Because SJ quotes from "Ben. Johnson's New-Inn," and Under-woods his use of the either the 1692 edition or the edition issued in 1716 is likely: The works of Ben. Johnson. In six volumes. Adorn'd with cuts, 1716, London: Printed for J. Walthoe, M. Wotton, J. Nicholson, J. Sprint, G. Conyers, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, T. Ballard, B. Cowse, J. Tonson, and W. Innys (see New Inn and Tavern Academy below).
The quotes in 1755 Dict. Vol. 1 appear to be exclusively from volumes 3, 5, and 6 of the 1716 Works. This may reinforce the case for SJ's use of the 1716 edition. Two citations to 1716 Works vol. 1 were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. that may be from the 1756 Works edition.
Greene in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, opines that the five Johnson volumes of lot 123 5. vols. of Ben Johnson's works, &c. of the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., are from the seven volume 1756 Whalley edition. Although these could be from the six volume 1716 edition, one of two quotations from Every Man in His Humour added in the 1773 Dict. uses the spelling of the 1756 Works.
Prof. Beth Young, U. of Central Florida, points out, June 2024, that the OED says the word "congrument" is "An error in Johnson founded on a misprint for congruent in an ed. of Ben Jonson." Young also notes that this "misprint" is in the 1716, but not the 1756 edition. The "misprint" also occurs in the 1692 Works (Timber or Discoveries). The first publication of Discoveries was in the second volume of the 1640 Works, and reads "congruent," which seems to be evidence that SJ did not use the 1640 Works for the 1755 Dictionary.]
[BKG format note: brackets [ ] around a headword below indicates that the title of the work was not included in the Dict. author citation, but the headword has been verified as to text title. Page references are to the indicated volumes of the 1716 Works. Very few B. Johnson text titles are included in Dict. Vol. 2. Nearly all the Dict. Vol. 1 B. Johnson cites have been traced to a text title. This has not been done for Dict. Vol. 2.]
- Catiline, Cataline; about; action; actor, airling; all, alone; [artificer (p. 69)]; auspice; auspicious; authority; away; bane; baneful; [batch (p. 72)]; bear (2); begirt; bill; boisterous; [bolt (p.44)]; bondswoman; borderer; bosom; break (2); by; call; cast (2); client; clientele; climax (quote w/o attribution); cling; [clod (p. 58)]; close; cobswan; come; [come about (p. 84)]; [commonwealth (cited as Johnson, p, 50)]; [community (p. 14)]; condition; consular; consulship; [count (cited as Johns.)]; [crude (p. 13)]; dainty; decay; [deck (p. 41)]; declaim; delinquent; dentifrice; depart; disgracefully; dormouse; double; ear; easiness; [emergent (p. 13)]; emulate; emulous; entrails; errant; excuse; expense; express; [face (p. 51)]; favor; floor; foulness; fume; garden; giber; go; good; gorget; grudge; [hail (p.15)]; [harlot (p.52)]; half-sphere; hand; head; heady; helm; herd; [hold (p. 77)]; honestly; [hoot (p. 43)]; [injurer (p. 86)]; [jig (Dedication)]; juice; [kemb (p. 25, kemb'd in text)]; knot; labour; of; tribe; set up; [sleek]; they [1716 vol. 3]
- Discoveries; Timber or Discoveries, Made Upon Men and Matter: As they have flowed out of his Daily Readings; or had their refluxe to his peculiar reading of the times, by Ben. Iohnson, 1641, London, starts at image 410 of 435 in second vol. of the posthumous The vvorkes of Beniamin Ionson. 1640, London. A 1692 edition of the Works was issued (Discoveries starts at image 338 of 366), and is a possible source of the Dict. quotations (see above). Per Yale Vol. 18, p. 310, SJ quotes from this work in the Dict. "Grammar of the English Tongue." In the word list: abrupt; [addict (p. 228, same quote as fautor)]; affect; allegory; art; [ask (p. 296)]; barker; braky; brief; [careless (p. 229)]; carry; chapped; clearly; coagmentation; [cold (p. 225)]; come; confidently; congrument; consise; consociation; corpulent; counsel; cozenage; [craft (p. 307, same quote as feigner)]; cross; cup; deal; [diverse (p. 237)]; downright; [dry (p. 285)]; dryness; economy; effect; [emergent (p. 224)]erelong; extemporal; fairing; [fautor (p. 228)]; [feigner (p.307)]; flag; flashy; fruit; fulness; funnel; glut; half; herborough; [imperfect (p. 224)]; [intermission (p. 291)]; juice; prodigal; [trust (1755 Dict. only, cited as Jonson)] [1716 vol. 6]
- English Grammar; The English Grammar, made by Ben. Johnson. For the benefit of all Strangers, out of his observations of the English Language now spoken and in use, 1640, (no publisher listed, starts at image 383 of 435 in second vol. of the posthumous The vvorkes of Beniamin Ionson. 1640, London. A 1692 edition of the Works was issued (The English Grammar starts at image 327 of 366 in the 1692 edition), and is a possible source of Dict. citations (see above). The 1640 English Grammar was reprinted in 1928 (London, Lanston Monotype Corporation Ltd.) with variants of the 1692 edition of the Grammar listed in 11 pages: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b237751&seq=7 [BKG 2025 Note: The 1692 text with the variants were adopted in the 1716 B. Jonson Works, so SJ may have used a text modified a half-century after the first 1641 publication of the English Grammar. See the images below of the 1928 Prefatory Note commentary on the significance of these changes.] Per Yale Vol. 18, p. xl, SJ often silently relies on Jonson's English Grammar in the Dict. Grammar of the English Tongue. SJ also cites Jonson explicitly in the Dict. Grammar of the English Tongue: Yale Vol.18, p. 210, 324-325, 347, 348. However, no citations of Jonson's English Grammar have been identified in the Dict. word list. [1716 vol. 6]
- Epigrams: [apt (p. 150)]; [adulter (p. 124)]; [bawdry (baudry in text, p. 132)]; [beating(s) (p. 139)]; [bet (p. 163)]; birth; [brocage (p.134)]; [cabinet (p. 166)]; [cates (p. 153)]; [chapman (p.147)]; [cock (p. 163, same quote as bet)]; [comfort (p. 123)]; [courtling (p. 213)]; [daystar (p. 141)]; dignify; [discern (p. 154)]; [duelist (p. 131)]; express; facile; [fool (p. 133)]; [frippery (p. 134, same quote as brocage)]; [frostily (p. 133); gratulate; herald; [hood-wink (p.135)]; [hothouse (p. 119)]; [hurl (p. 117)]; [ink (p.117, inexact quote, perhaps from memory)]; [knighthood (p. 131)]; mirthful; praiser; statesman [1716 vol. 3]
- Every Man in His Humour; bedstaff; [bordello (p. 28, burdello in text)] [1716 vol. 1] [BKG Note: The text of the 1756 Works, p.28 vol.1, reads bordello, so SJ may have consulted the 1756 Works edition while preparing the 1773 Dict.]
- Fairy Prince (Oberon); agon; anon; bracelet; chanticleer (cited as Mask in 1755 Dict.); chime; [dairy (p. 426)]; [empress (emperess in quote and text, p. 426)]; expectancy; [1716 vol. 3]
- Forest; daintiness; [decoction (p. 188)]; [exempt (p. 183)]; [grutch (p. 185)]; gyves; leanness; man; [1716 vol. 3]
- Gypsies; attender; flirt; [kine (p. 409)]; refel; [1716 vol. 5]
- New Inn; [alms basket (sig. Ee)]; [chambermaid (second Epilogue)]; [draff (second Epilogue)]; fleshquake; grains; [hearer (Epilogue)]; knit. [BKG Note: New Inn, or the Light Heart, a Comedy, appears in the collected Works for the first time in the 1692 edition.] [1716 vol. 6]
- Owls; cheesemonger; flush; make; [1716 vol. 6]
- [Tale of a Tub]; [ale (Prologue)]; [cit (Prologue,"cits and clowns" in Dict., "cotes of clowns" in text, likely from memory)] [1716 vol. 5]
- Tavern Academy; Leges Conviviales. Rules for the Tavern Academy or, Laws for the Beaux Esprites, from the Latin of Ben Jonson, engraven in Marble, over the Chimny in the Apollo of the Old Devil Tavern, that being his Club Room. in Works, 1692, starts at image 364 of 366; caterer; chirp; drawer; [fiddler (Rule VII, unnumbered pages in sig. Ee)]; [fine (Rule V, cited as Johnson)]; [follow (last page of 1716 volume, inscription over tavern door)]; waiter; [BKG Note: Leges Conviviales appears in the collected Works for the first time in the 1692 edition.] [1716 vol. 6]
- Under-woods; afeared; band; billiards; bridecake; bridestake; buff; [but (p. 153)]; [cloth (p. 231)]; clatter; cleft; [counterbuff (p. 289)]; crisp; [delve (p. 286)]; emissary; [enchase (enchas'd in text, p. 283)]; [fro (p. 286, same quote as delve)]; girth; glister; [grindlestone (p. 286)]; [hornpipe (p. 191)]; jerk; lout; nard; smutch; tierce (Epigram to the Household, 1630, in Under-woods, also entered in a longer quote under [terse] in the 1773 Dict.; troll; weft; [1716 vol. 5]
- Vision of Delight (Masque); [humorous (p. 329)]; [1716 vol. 5]
- Johnson, B. [Jonson] (no work cited); 1755 Dict: fucus (quote not located in 1716 works); guise (quote not located in 1716 works); island (cited as Johnson, only in 1755 Dict., incorrect citation, should be Pope); rise (etym.)
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