Works by Benjamin [Ben] Jonson
Drama
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Masques and Entertainments
- I. The Early Entertainments, 1603-1607
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II. Masques at Court, 1605-1631
- The Masques of Blackness and of Beauty (1608)
- Hymenaei (1606)
- The Haddington Masque (1608)
- The Masque of Queens (1609)
- The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers (1616)
- Oberon, the Fairy Prince (1616)
- Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly (1616)
- Love Restored (1616)
- A Challenge at Tilt (1616)
- The Irish Masque at Court (1616)
- Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court (1616)
- The Golden Age Restored (1616)
- Christmas his Masque (1640)
- Lovers made Men (1617)
- The Vision of Delight (1640)
- Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue (1640)
- For the Honour of Wales (1640)
- News from the New World Discovered in the Moon (1640)
- Pan's Anniversary (1640) (co-author)
- The Gypsies Metamorphosed
- The Masque of Augurs (1622)
- Time Vindicated (1623)
- Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion (1624)
- The Fortunate Isles, and their Union (1625)
- Love's Triumph through Callipolis (1630) (co-author)
- Chloridia (1631) (co-author)
- III. The Later Entertainments, 1620-1634
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Plays
- A Tale of a Tub (1640)
- The Case is Altered (1609)
- Every Man in his Humor: The Original Version of 1598, from the Quarto of 1601 (1601)
- Every Man in His Humour: The Revised Version from the Folio of 1616 (1616)
- Every Man Out of His Humour (1600)
- Cynthia's Revels (1601)
- Poetaster (1601)
- Sejanus (1605)
- Eastward Ho (1605) (co-author)
- Volpone, or the Fox (1607)
- Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (1616)
- The Alchemist (1612)
- Catiline (1611)
- Bartholomew Fair (1631)
- The Devil is an Ass (1631)
- The Staple of News (1631)
- The New Inn (1631)
- The Magnetic Lady (1640)
- The Sad Shepherd (1640)
- Mortimer His Fall (1640)
- The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment of King James through the City of London, 15 March 1604 (1603) (co-author)
Verse
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Poems
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Epigrams (1616)
- I To the Reader (1616)
- II To my Book (1616)
- III To my Book-seller (1616)
- IIII To King James (1616)
- V On the Union (1616)
- VI To Alchemists (1616)
- VII On the new Hot-house (1616)
- VIII On a Robbery (1616)
- IX To all, to whom I write (1616)
- X To my lord Ignorant (1616)
- XI On something that walks somewhere (1616)
- XII On Lieutenant Shift (1616)
- XIII To Doctor Empirick (1616)
- XIV To William Camden (1616)
- XV On Court-worm (1616)
- XVI To Brayne-hardie (1616)
- XVII To the learned Critic (1616)
- XVIII To my mere English Censurer (1616)
- XIX On Sir Cod the perfumed (1616)
- XX To the same Sir Cod (1616)
- XXI On reformed Gamester (1616)
- XXII On my first Daughter (1616)
- XXIII To John Donne (1616)
- XXIV To the Parliament (1616)
- XXV On Sir voluptuous Beast (1616)
- XXVI On the same Beast (1616)
- XXVII On Sir John Roe (1616)
- XXVIII On Don Surly (1616)
- XXIX To Sir Annual Tilter (1616)
- XXX To Person Guilty (1616)
- XXXI On Bank the Usurer (1616)
- XXXII On Sir John Roe (1616)
- XXXIII To the same (1616)
- XXXIV Of Death (1616)
- XXXV To King James (1616)
- XXXVI To the Ghost of Martial (1616)
- XXXVII On Cheu'rill the Lawyer (1616)
- XXXVIII To Person Guilty (1616)
- XXXIX On Old Colt (1616)
- XL Of Margaret Ratcliffe (1616)
- XLI On Gypsie (1616)
- XLII On Giles and Jone (1616)
- XLIII To Robert, Earl of Salisbury (1616)
- XLIV On Chuffe, Bancks the Usurer's Kinsman (1616)
- XLV On my First Son (1616)
- XLVI To Sir Luckless Woo-all (1616)
- XLVII To the same (1616)
- XLVIII On Mungril Esquire (1616)
- XLIX To Play-wright (1616)
- L To Sir Cod (1616)
- LI To King James (1616)
- LII To Censorious Courtling (1616)
- LIII To Old-end Gatherer (1616)
- LIV On Cheu'ril (1616)
- LV To Francis Beaumont (1616)
- LVI On Poet-Ape (1616)
- LVII On Bawds, and Usurers (1616)
- LVIII To Groom Idiot (1616)
- LIX On Spies (1616)
- LX To William Lord Mounteagle (1616)
- LXI To Fool, or Knave (1616)
- LXII To Fine Lady Would-be (1616)
- LXIII To Robert, Earl of Salisbury (1616)
- LXIV To the same (1616)
- LXV To my Muse (1616)
- LXVI To Sir Henry Cary (1616)
- LXVII To Thomas Earl of Suffolk (1616)
- LXVIII On Play-wright (1616)
- LXIX To Pertinax Cob (1616)
- LXX To William Roe (1616)
- LXXI On Court-Parrot (1616)
- LXXII To Courtling (1616)
- LXXIII To Fine Grand (1616)
- LXXIV To Thomas Lord Chancellor <Egerton> (1616)
- LXXV On Lippe, the Teacher (1616)
- LXXVI On Lucy Countess of Bedford (1616)
- LXXVII To one that desired me not to name him (1616)
- LXXVIII To Hornet (1616)
- LXXIX To Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (1616)
- LXXX Of Life, and Death (1616)
- LXXXI To Proule the Plagiary (1616)
- LXXXII On Cashierd Capt. Surly (1616)
- LXXXIII To a Friend (1616)
- LXXXIV To Lucy Countess of Bedford (1616)
- LXXXV To Sir Henry Goodyere (1616)
- LXXXVI To the same (1616)
- LXXXVII On Captain Hazard the Cheater (1616)
- LXXXVIII On English Mounsieur (1616)
- LXXXIX To Edward Allen (1616)
- XC On Mill my Ladies Woman (1616)
- XCI To Sir Horace Vere (1616)
- XCII The new Cry (1616)
- XCIII To Sir John Radcliffe (1616)
- XCIV To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr Donnes Satires (1616)
- XCV To Sir Henry Savile (1616)
- XCVI To John Donne (1616)
- XCVII On the new Motion (1616)
- XCVIII To Sir Thomas Roe (1616)
- XCVIX To the same (1616)
- C On Play-wright (1616)
- CI Inviting a friend to supper (1616)
- CII To William Earl of Pembroke (1616)
- CIII To Mary Lady Wroth (1616)
- CIV To Susan Countess of Montgomery (1616)
- CV To Mary Lady Wroth (1616)
- CVI To Sir Edward Herbert (1616)
- CVII To Captain Hungry (1616)
- CVIII To true Soldiers (1616)
- CIX To Sir Henry Nevil (1616)
- CX To Clement Edmonds, on his Cæsars Commentaries observed, and translated (1616)
- CXI To the same; On the same (1616)
- CXII To a weak Gamester in Poetry (1616)
- CXIII To Sir Thomas Overbury (1616)
- CXIV To Mrs. Philip Sydney (1616)
- CXV On the Towns honest Man (1616)
- CXVI To Sir William Jephson (1616)
- CXVII On Groin (1616)
- CXVIII On Gut (1616)
- CXVIX To Sir Raph Shelton (1616)
- CXX Epitaph on S<alomon> P<avy> a child of Q. El<izabeths> Chapel (1616)
- CXXI To Benjamin Rudyerd (1616)
- CXXII To the same (1616)
- CXXIII To the same (1616)
- CXXIV Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H. (1616)
- CXXV To Sir William Uvedale (1616)
- CXXVI To his Lady, then Mrs. Cary (1616)
- CXXVII To Esme, Lord A'ubigny (1616)
- CXXVIII To William Roe (1616)
- CXXIX To Mime (1616)
- CXXX To Alphonso Ferrabosco, on his Book (1616)
- CXXXI To the same (1616)
- CXXXII To Mr. Josvah Sylvester (1616)
- CXXXIII On the famous Voyage (1616)
- The Voyage it self (1616)
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The Forest (1616)
- I Why I write not of Love (1616)
- II To Penshurst (1616)
- III To Sir Robert Wroth (1616)
- IIII To the World (1616)
- V Song.: To Celia (1616)
- VI To the same (1616)
- VII Song.: That Women are but Mens shadows (1616)
- VIII To Sickness (1616)
- IX Song.: To Celia (1616)
- X. And must I sing? What subject shall I choose? (1616)
- XI Epode (1616)
- XII Epistle: To Elizabeth Countesse of Rutland (1616)
- XIII Epistle: To Katherine, Lady Aubigny (1616)
- XIIII Ode.: To Sir William Sydney, on his Birthday (1616)
- XV To Heaven (1616)
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The Underwood (1640)
- I. Poems of Devotion (1640)
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II. A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyric Pieces (1640)
- 1 His Excuse for loving (1640)
- 2 How he saw her (1640)
- 3 What he suffered (1640)
- 4 Her Triumph (1640)
- 5 His discourse with Cupid (1640)
- 6 Claiming a second kiss by Desert (1640)
- 7 Begging another, on colour of mending the former (1640)
- 8 Urging her of a promise (1640)
- 9 Her man described by her own Dictamen (1640)
- 10 Another Ladies exception present at the hearing (1640)
- III. The Musical strife ; in a Pastoral Dialogue (1640)
- IV. A Song (1640)
- V. In the person of Womankind (1640)
- VI. Another. in defence of their Inconstancy. a Song (1640)
- VII. A Nymphs Passion (1640)
- VIII The Hourglass (1640)
- IX. My Picture left in Scotland (1640)
- X. Against Jealousy (1640)
- XI. The Dream (1640)
- XII. An Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbet (1640)
- XIII. An Epistle to Sir Edward Sacvile, now Earl of Dorset (1640)
- XIV. An Epistle to Master John Selden (1640)
- XV. An Epistle to a Friend, to persuade him to the Wars (1640)
- XVI. An Epitaph on Master Philip Gray (1640)
- XVII. Epistle to a Friend (1640)
- XVIII. An Elegy (1640)
- XIX. An Elegy (1640)
- XX. A Satirical Shrub (1640)
- XXI. A little Shrub growing by (1640)
- XXII. An Elegy (1640)
- XXIII. An Ode. to himself (1640)
- XXIV The mind of the Frontispiece to a Book (1640)
- XXV. An Ode to James Earl of Desmond written in Queen Elizabeths time, since lost, and recovered (1640)
- XXVI. An Ode (1640)
- XXVII. An Ode (1640)
- XXVIII. A Sonnet, to the noble Lady, the Lady Mary Worth (1640)
- XXIX. A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme (1640)
- XXX. An Epigram on Will(i)am Lord Burl(eigh,) Lo: high Treasurer of England (1640)
- XXXI. An Epigram to Thomas Lo: Elsemere, the last Term he sat Chancellor (1640)
- XXXII. Another to him (1640)
- XXXIII. An Epigram to the Councillor that pleaded, and carried the Cause (1640)
- XXXIV. An Epigram. to the small Pox (1640)
- XXXV. An Epitaph <On Elizabeth Chute.> (1640)
- XXXVI. A Song (1640)
- XXXVII. An Epistle to a friend (1640)
- XXXVIII. An Elegy (1640)
- XXXIX. An Elegy (1640)
- XL. An Elegy (1640)
- XLI. An Elegy (1640)
- XLII. An Elegy (1640)
- XLIII. An Execration upon Vulcan (1640)
- XLIV. A speech according to Horace (1640)
- XLV. An Epistle to Master Arth: Squib (1640)
- XLVI. An Epigram on Sir Edward Coke, when he was Lord chief justice of England (1640)
- XLVII. An Epistle answering to one that asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben (1640)
- XLVIII. The Dedication of the Kings new Cellar (1640)
- XLIX. An Epigram on the Court Pucell (1640)
- L. An Epigram (1640)
- LI. Lord Bacon’s Birthday (1640)
- LII. A Poême sent me by Sir William Burlase (1640) (co-author)
- LIII. An Epigram (1640)
- LIV. Epistle (1640)
- LV. To Mr. John Burges (1640)
- LVI. Epistle (1640)
- LVII. To Master John Burges (1640)
- LVIII. Epigram, to my Bookseller (1640)
- LIX. An Epigram (1640)
- LX. An Epitaph, on Henry L. La-ware (1640)
- LXI. An Epigram (1640)
- LXII. An Epigram (1640)
- LXIII. To K. Charles, and Q. Mary (1640)
- LXIV. An Epigram (1640)
- LXV. An Epigram on the Princes birth (1640)
- LXVI. An Epigram to the Queen, then lying in (1640)
- LXVII. An Ode, or Song, by all the Muses (1640)
- LXVIII. An Epigram, to the Household (1640)
- LXIX. Epigram (1640)
- LXX. To the immortal memory, and friendship of that noble pair, Sir Lucius Cary, and Sir H. Morison (1640)
- LXXI. To the Right Honourable, the Lord high Treasurer of England (1640)
- LXXII. To the King. On his Birthday (1640)
- LXXIII. On the Right Honourable, and virtuous Lord Weston, Upon the Day, He was made Earl of Portland (1640)
- LXXIV. To the Right honourable Hierome, L. Weston (1640)
- LXXV. Epithalamion (1640)
- LXXVI. The humble Petition of poor Ben (1640)
- LXXVII. To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England (1640)
- LXXVIII. An Epigram (1640)
- LXXIX. (1640)
- LXXX. (1640)
- LXXXI. On the Kings Birthday (1640)
- LXXXII. To my L. the King, on the Christening His second Son James (1640)
- LXXXIII. An Elegy (1640)
- LXXXIV. Eupheme (1640)
- LXXXV. <Horace. Epode 2.> (1640)
- LXXXVI. <Horace> Ode the first. the fourth Book. (1640)
- LXXXVII. <Horace> Ode IX. 3 Book, to Lydia (1640)
- LXXXVIII. <A Fragment of Petronius Arbiter.> (1640)
- LXXXIX. <Martial. Epigram LXXVII. Book VIII.> (1640)
- XC. Martial. <Epigram XLVIII, Book X.> (1640)
- Horace His Art of Poetry (1640) (trans.)
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Ungathered Verse
- I From the Sprite of Trees and Herbs, by Thomas Palmer, 1598-9
- II From Melancholic humours, in verses of diverse natures, set (1600)
- III Fragments from Englands Parnassus: Or The choicest Flowers (1600)
- IV The Phoenix Analysed (1601)
- V Ode (1601)
- VI Ben: Johnson (1601)
- VII To the Author (1604)
- VIII To the worthy Author M. John Fletcher
- IX
- X Certain Opening and Drawing Distiches (1611)
- XI (1611)
- XII Certain Verses Written Upon Coryats Crudities (1611)
- XIII From Iunii Iuuenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyræ: Cum (1612)
- XIV From Auli Persii Flacci Satyræ sex. 1 Vates. 2 Vota. 3 ignauus. (1612)
- XV From L. & M. Annæi Senecae atque aliorum Tragoediæ. Animad (1613)
- XVI A speech presented unto king James at a tilting in the behalf of the two noble Brothers sir Robert & sir Henry Rich
- XVII From Cynthias Revenge: or Mænanders Extasy.—Pers. Ipse semipaganus (1613)
- XVIII To the most noble, and above his Titles, Robert, Earl of Somerset (1640)
- XIX From the Ghost of Richard the Third. Expressing himself in (1614)
- XX To the worthy Author on the Husband (1614)
- XXI To my truly-beloved Friend, Mr. Browne: on his Pastorals (1616)
- 22 XXII
- XXIII To my worthy and honourrd Friend, Mr George Chapman, on his Translation of Hesiods Works, & Days (1618)
- XXIV On the Author, Work, and Translator (1622)
- XXV To the Reader (1623)
- XXVI To the memory of my beloved, the Author Mr William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us
- 27 XXVII (1624)
- XXVIII To ye memory of that most honoured Lady Jane, eldest Daughter, to Cuthbert Lord Ogle: and Countess of Shrewsbury
- XXIX To my chosen Friend, the learned Translator of Lucan, Thomas May, Esquire (1627)
- XXX The Vision of Ben. Jonson, on the Muses of his Friend, M. Drayton (1627)
- XXXI <Epitaph on Katherine, Lady Ogle.>
- XXXII On the honored Poems of his honored Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet (1629)
- XXXIII To my worthy Friend, Master Edward Filmer, on his Work published (1629)
- XXXIV An Expostulacon with Inigo Iones
- XXXV To Inigo Marquess Would be a Corollary
- XXXVI. To a Friend an Epigram of Him
- XXXVII To my Detractor
- XXXVIII To my old Faithful Servant: and (by his continued Virtue) my loving Friend: the Author of this Work, M. Rich. Brome (1632)
- XXXIX <An Answer to Alexander Gill.>
- XL To Mrs. Alice Sutchiffle on her divine Meditations (1634)
- XLI The Garland of the blessed Virgin Marie (1635)
- XLII To my dear Son, and right-learned Friend, Master Joseph Rutter (1635)
- XLIII An Epigram to my jovial Good Friend Mr. Robert Dover, on his great Instauration of his Hunting, and Dancing at Cotswold (1636)
- XLIV (A Song of Welcome to King Charles)
- XLV (A Song of the Moon)
- XLVI
- XLVII
- XLVIII Ode:
- XLIX (An Epistle to a Friend)
- L A speech out of Lucane
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Poems Ascribed to Jonson
- I Another (Epigram) on the Birth of the Prince (1640)
- II A Parallel of the Prince to the King (co-author)
- III On the Birthday of Prince Charles (co-author)
- IV A Petition of the Infant Prince Charles
- V Epitaph on Prince Henry (1614)
- VI On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (1623) (co-author)
- VII Epitaph on Michael Drayton (1641) (co-author)
- VIII To Lord Bacon
- IX Ode
- X Epigram on Richard Burbage
- XI Master Jonson’s answer to Master Withers (1620) (co-author)
- XII On the Steeple of St Mary’s Church, Newcastle
- XIII On the Family Vault of Lord Zouche at Harringworth
- XVII An Impromptu to Sir William Noye
- XVIII The Crown Inn at Basingstoke
- XIX On the Good Wives Ale (co-author)
- XX An Oracle of Heliodorus
- XXI Horace, Odes II. III (1621) (co-author)
- XXII On my Friend and adopted Son Mr. Thomas Jordan the Infant-Poet of our Age (1637)
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Epigrams (1616)
- The same by B. I. (1616) (trans.)