title: The Devil Is an Ass
title_page_title: [N1r] THE DIUELL IS AN ASSE: A COMEDIE
title_page_author: The Author B<small>EN</small>:  I<small>ONSON</small>.
title_page_performance: ACTED IN THE YEARE, 1616. <i>BY HIS MAIESTIES</i> S<small>ERVANTS</small>.
title-page_latin_motto: H<small>OR</small>. <i>de</i> A<small>RT</small>. P<small>OET</small>. <i>Ficta voluptatis  Causâ, sint proxima veris</i>.
title_page_imprint: <i>LONDON</i>,  Printed by <i>I. B.</i> for R<small>OBERT</small> A<small>LLOT</small>,  and are to be sold at the signe of the <i>Beare</i>, in <i>Pauls</i> Church-yard. 1631.
paratext_charachter_list: "The Persons of the Play" [N2r]
stationer_entries_in_register: Sep 17, 1658: Entered to Thomas Walkley: "The Devill is an Asse. salvo jure cujuscunq<i>ue</i>."<br />Nov 20, 1658: Transferred from Thomas Walkley to Humphrey Moseley: "The Devill is an Asse."
transcript_modern_spelling: The devil is an ass a comedy acted in the year 1616 by his majesty's servants the author Ben Jonson Hor de art poet ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris London printed by J.B. for Robert Allott and are to be sold at the sign of the bear in Paul's Churchyard 1631