title: The Staple of News
title_page_title: [2A1r] THE STAPLE OF NEWES. A COMEDIE
title_page_author: The Author B<small>EN</small>: I<small>ONSON</small>.
title_page_performance: ACTED IN THE YEARE, 1625. <i>BY HIS MAIESTIES</i> S<small>ERVANTS</small>.
title-page_latin_motto: [in single column] H<small>OR</small>. <i>in</i> A<small>RT</small>. P<small>OET</small>. | <i>Aut prodesse volunt, aut delectare poetæ</i>: | <i>Aut simul & iucunda, & idonea dicere vitæ</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" [2A1v]
stationer_entries_in_register: Apr 14, 1626: Entered to John Waterson: "A booke Called The Staple of Newes being A Comedie.".<br />Sep 7, 1631: Transferred from John Waterson to Robert Allott: "a booke called The stapell of Newes written by m<sup>r</sup> [<i>3? letters deleted</i>] Ben: Iohnson".<br />Jul 1, 1637: Transferred from the widow of Robert Allott to John Legat (2) and Andrew Crooke (1): "saluo Iure cuiuscunq<i>ue</i> ... Staple Newes. a Play."
transcript_modern_spelling: The staple of news a comedy acted in the year 1625 by his majesty's servants the author Ben Jonson hor in art poet aut prodesse volunt aut delectare poetae aut simul et iucunda et idonea dicere vitae London printed by J.B. for Robert Allott and are to be sold at the sign of the Bear in Paul's Churchyard 1631  