Every Man in His Humour is a 1598 play by the English playwright Ben Jonson. The play belongs to the subgenre of the "humours comedy," in which each major character is dominated by an over-riding humour or obsession.
“Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.”
Act i, Scene 3. Comparable to "Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat", George Wither, "Poem on Christmas"
Every Man in His Humour (1598)
“Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.”
Act iii, Scene 3
Every Man in His Humour (1598)
“Get money; still get money, boy,
No matter by what means.”
Act ii, Scene 3. Compare: "Get place and wealth,—if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place", Alexander Pope, Horace, book i. epistle i. line 103
Every Man in His Humour (1598)
Act i, Scene 3
Every Man in His Humour (1598)
