title: The Devil Is an Ass
title_page_title: 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: Greg writes, "This edition was evidently printed to take the place" of the first edition of the play printed for the second volume of Jonson's <i>Works</i>, but he adds, "it is also clear from advertisements ... that copies were sold separately (although none are recorded as now occurring in that state) and it is therefore here treated as an independent edition" (<i>Bibliography</i>, 2:605-6). There is another issue of this playbook 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