title: The Devil Is an Ass
title_page_title: [A1r] THE DIVELL IS AN ASSE. A COMEDIE
title_page_author: The Author B<small>EN</small>:  I<small>OHNSON</small>.
title_page_performance: ACTED IN THE YEARE, 1616. <i>BY HIS MAJESTIES</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>Fucta voluptatis  Causa, sint proxima veris</i>.
title_page_imprint: Imprinted at London,  1641.
paratext_charachter_list: "The Persons of the Play" [A2r]
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."
stationer_additional_notes: There is another issue of this play from 1669 [Greg 457b(ii)], which is not included in DEEP.
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 Imprinted at London 1641