“Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.”
Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour
Act i, Scene 3. Comparable to "Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat", George Wither, "Poem on Christmas"
Every Man in His Humour (1598)
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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.
“As he brews, so shall he drink.”
Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour
Act ii, Scene 1
Every Man in His Humour (1598)
“Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.”
Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour
Act iii, Scene 3
Every Man in His Humour (1598)
“Get money; still get money, boy,
No matter by what means.”
Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour
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)
“It must be done like lightning.”
Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour
Act iv, Scene v
Every Man in His Humour (1598)
