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 1640 Grammar, Abbey inscrip.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) One volume of Ben. Jonson's works was issued in 1616, and a second, posthumous volume, The vvorkes of Beniamin Ionson. was issued in 1640, 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. (The works of Ben Jonson, which were formerly printed in two volumes, are now reprinted in one. To which is added a comedy, called The nevv inn· With additions never before published, London, 1692, Printed by Thomas Hodgkin, for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, et al.) Because SJ quotes from "Ben. Johnson's New-Inn," his use of the one volume 1692 edition or the edition issued in 1716, London, Printed for J. Walthoe, M. Wotton. . . J. Tonson, and W. Innys, 1716. 6 volumes, is more likely (see New Inn and Tavern Academy below). [BKG Note: Greene in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, opines that the five Johnson volumes of lot 123 of the SJ Library Sale catalogue are from the seven volume 1756 Whalley edition, but these could as well be from the six volume 1716 edition. There are about 240 B. Johnson [Jonson] cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and about 300 cites in 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 1640 Grammar, Abbey inscrip.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) One volume of Ben. Jonson's works was issued in 1616, and a second, posthumous volume, The vvorkes of Beniamin Ionson. was issued in 1640, 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. (The works of Ben Jonson, which were formerly printed in two volumes, are now reprinted in one. To which is added a comedy, called The nevv inn· With additions never before published, London, 1692, Printed by Thomas Hodgkin, for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, et al.) Because SJ quotes from "Ben. Johnson's New-Inn," his use of the one volume 1692 edition or the edition issued in 1716, London, Printed for J. Walthoe, M. Wotton. . . J. Tonson, and W. Innys, 1716. 6 volumes, is more likely (see New Inn and Tavern Academy below). [BKG Note: Greene in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, opines that the five Johnson volumes of lot 123 of the SJ Library Sale catalogue are from the seven volume 1756 Whalley edition, but these could as well be from the six volume 1716 edition. There are about 240 B. Johnson [Jonson] cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and about 300 cites in Dict. vol. 2]
- Cataline: airling; alone; auspice; come; [count]; set up; [sleek]; they
- 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, London, (1741); 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." Also quoted in the word list: art; brief; coagmentation; glut; herborough;
- 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, Printed M.DC.XL. (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 summarized on 10 pages. 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.
- Epigrams: facile; herald; mirthful; praiser;
- Every Man in His Humor; bedstaff;
- Fairy Prince; anon; bracelet; chime; expectancy;
- Forest; leanness; man;
- Gypsies; attender; flirt; refel;
- Mask; chanticleer;
- New Inn; Quotation under fleshquake; grains; knit. [BKG Note: New Inn, or the Light Heart, a Comedy, appears in the collected Works for the first time in the 1692 edition (fleshquake: image 352 of 366)]
- Owls; cheesemonger; make;
- [Tale of a Tub, Prologue]; [cit ("cits and clowns" in Dict., "cotes of clowns" in text, likely from memory)]
- 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, (image 365 of 1692 Works); chirp; drawer; waiter; [BKG Note: Leges Conviviales appears in the collected Works for the first time in the 1692 edition.]
- Underwoods; band; bridecake; bridestake; buff; crisp, emissary, nard, weft
- Johnson, B. [Jonson] (no work cited); ask (added in 1773 Dict.); cloth (added in 1773 Dict.); cold (added in 1773 Dict.); island (incorrect citation, should be Pope)