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 circumstance; which is important on many accounts, we are indebted to the Office-book of sir Henry Herbert. See Shak. Vol. II. p. 380.

The Magnetic Lady was first published in the second fol. and bears date 1640, three years, at least, after Jonson's death: when the editor, as I should have remarked of all the plays collected in that volume, had forgotten how the author spelt his name. It had originally this motto subjoined to the title, to which it is not ill adapted,