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The Devil is an Ass

Note 92 — INTRODUCTION (continued 2)

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The passage from the Gipsies especially finds a close parallel in the fragment of a song in Marston’s Dutch Courtezan, 1605, Wks. 2. 46:

Purest lips, soft banks of blisses, Self alone deserving kisses.

Are not these lines from Jonson’s hand? This was the year of his collaboration with Marston in Eastward Ho.

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