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| Title | The Devil is an Ass, Issues 29-30 The Devil is an Ass, William Savage Johnson Volume 29 of Yale studies in English |
| Author | Ben Jonson |
| Editor | William Savage Johnson |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1905 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 252 pages |
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