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318 the purpose, as Whalley ought to have been aware that Jonson proposed to himself no imitation of the choruses of the Greek drama, but of those of his contemporaries; such, in fact, as he had already given in his Catiline, and of which the original it to be sought in the tragedies of Seneca.