...tale that wants art. As for The Winter's Tale or The Tempest, a good neo-classical poet must be 'loath to make Nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such like Drolleries'.12 And Jonson is loose enough with a notion of dates in the Bartholomew Fair Induction...

...never a servant-monster i' the Fair, 130 who can help it, he says, nor a nest of antics? He is loath to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such-like drolleries, to mix his head with other men's heels, let the concupiscence of jigs and dances...

...in the bookholder to speak for the playwright of this play: If there be never a servant-monster i' the Fair, who can help it? he says; nor a nest of antics? He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such...

...in Bartholomew Fair, Jonson writes in his Induction to that play, it was only because he was "loath to make Nature afraid in his Plays, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such like Drolleries" (6:16). Jonson chose four Elizabethan plays for the opening of his First Folio in order to suggest...

...there be never a servant-monster i'the fair, who can help it? ... nor a nest of antics? [The author] is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget tales, tempests, and such-like drolleries. (Induction, lines 127-30) Another dramatist writing for the King's Men was John...

...members thai 'there be never a servant,monster i' the Fair', since 'our author' 'is loth to make Namre afraid in his plays, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such like drolleries' (lines 107-8, 128-9, 130-2). I will remrn to Jonson's anempt to establish himself as 'master, poet',...

...EA Horsman (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1979): 'If there be never a servantmonster i' the Fair, who can help it? he says; nor a nest of antics? He is loth to make Nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such...