Excerpt from Sejanus In the same year he was asked as a Catholic to render certain political services to the state, of the exact nature of which we are not informed, though they had something to do with the gunpow-v der Plot, and from this time on he lived in favor with the Court, at least for many years. In 1605 he produced Volpone, in 1610 Epitome and le Alchemist, in 1611 Catiline, in 1614. Bart/1010 mew Fair, in 1616 The Devil is an Ass. In the last-mentioned year he published the first collected edition of his plays, with regard to which he said in 161 9 that not half of his comedies were in print. We have his own statement to the effect that all his plays gained him not more than two hundred pounds. Until 1625 he wrote 0 nothing more for the stage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.