Authority Cited: [Jonson] Johnson, Ben
Author name and dates: Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637)
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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. 11 B. Johnson cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. 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, but may not contain Under-woods. Because SJ quotes from "Ben. Johnson's New-Inn," and Under-woods his use of the the edition issued in 1716: 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, is likely (see New Inn and Tavern Academy below). The sampled quotes appear in volumes 1, 3, 5, and 6. 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, but these could as well be from the six volume 1716 edition. The 1756 set could not have been used in the 1755 Dict. 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" and that this misprint is in the 1716, but not the 1756 edition.]
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) [BKG Note: about 240 B. Johnson [Jonson] cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and about 300 cites in Dict. vol. 2. 11 B. Johnson cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. 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, but may not contain Under-woods. Because SJ quotes from "Ben. Johnson's New-Inn," and Under-woods his use of the the edition issued in 1716: 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, is likely (see New Inn and Tavern Academy below). The sampled quotes appear in volumes 1, 3, 5, and 6. 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, but these could as well be from the six volume 1716 edition. The 1756 set could not have been used in the 1755 Dict. 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" and that this misprint is in the 1716, but not the 1756 edition.]
- Cataline; airling; alone; auspice; come; [count]; 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, 1741, 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." Also quoted in the word list: art; brief; coagmentation; glut; herborough; [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 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. [1716 vol. 6]
- Epigrams: dignify; facile; herald; mirthful; praiser; [1716 vol. 3]
- Every Man in His Humor; bedstaff; [1716 vol. 1]
- Fairy Prince; anon; bracelet; chime; expectancy; [1716 vol. 3]
- Forest; daintiness; leanness; man; [1716 vol. 3]
- Gypsies; attender; flirt; refel; [1716 vol. 5]
- Mask (Silenus); chanticleer; [1716 vol. 3]
- 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)] [1716 vol. 6]
- Owls; cheesemonger; make; [1716 vol. 6]
- [Tale of a Tub, Prologue]; [cit ("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, (image 365 of 1692 Works); chirp; drawer; fine (cited as Johnson); waiter; [BKG Note: Leges Conviviales appears in the collected Works for the first time in the 1692 edition.] [1716 vol. 6]
- Underwoods; band; bridecake; bridestake; buff; crisp; emissary; nard; weft; [tierce (Epigram to the Household, 1630, in Under-woods, also entered in a longer quote under terse in the 1773 Dict., tierce in 1773 Dict. terse quote, cited as Johnson: 1716 text: "For in the genius of a poet's verse,/The King's fame lives. Go now, deny his tierce."; 1773 Dict. ". . . fame lies . . ."][1716 vol. 5]
- Johnson, B. [Jonson] (no work cited); ask; cloth; cold; comfort; community; craft; emergent; enchase; entrails; fine; island (cited as Johnson, only in 1755 Dict., incorrect citation, should be Pope); terce (tierce in 1773 Dict. quote, cited as Johnson);