1. John Lemly, “Masks and Self-Portraits in Jonson’s Late Poetry,” ELH 44, no. 2 (Summer 1977): 248–66.
2. Ben Jonson, Poems, ed. Ian Donaldson, Oxford Standard Authors (London: Oxford University Press, 1975), Under-wood 9.17, 56.9–10.
3. Sara J. van den Berg, The Action of Ben Jonson’s Poetry (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Press, 1987), 31.
4. Wesley Trimpi explains, “Except for purposes of dating, it makes little difference whether he was actually fifty when he wrote the poem or whether he adopted that particular age to represent a man old enough to be at a disadvantage in a love affair, on the suggestion perhaps of Horace’s Ode IV.i, of which he made one of the best translations,” in Wesley Trimpi, Ben Jonson’s Poems: A Study of the Plain Style (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1962), 213.
5. Bruce Boehrer, “Renaissance Overeating: The Sad Case of Ben Jonson,” PMLA 105, no. 5 (October 1990): 1078.