Ben Jonson - Catiline His Conspiracy ~ DRAMATIS PERSONAE lyrics

To the Great Example of HONOUR and VERTUE, the most Noble WILLIAM EARL of PEMBROKE , LORD CHAMBERLAIN, &c. MY LORD, IN so thick and dark an Ignorance, as now almost covers the Age, I crave leave to stand near your Light, and by that to be read. Posterity may pay your Benefit the Honour and Thanks, when it shall know, that you dare, in these Jig-given times, to countenance a Legitimate Poem. I must call it so, against all noise of Opinion: from whose crude and airy Reports, I appeal to that great and singular Faculty of Judgment in your Lordship, able to vindicate Truth from Error. It is the First (of this Race) that ever I dedicated to any Person; and had I not thought it the best, it should have been taught a less Ambition. Now it approacheth your Censure chearfully, and with the same a**urance that Innocency would appear before a Magistrate. Your Lordships most faithful Honourer, BEN. JOHNSON. The PERSONS of the PLAY. SYLLA'S GHOST. CATILINE. LENTULUS. CETHEGUS. CURIUS. AUTRONIUS. VARGUNTEIUS. LONGINUS. LECCA. FULVIUS. BESTIA. AURELIA. FULVIA. SEMPRONIA. GABINIUS. STATILIUS. CEPARIUS. CORNELIUS. VOLTURTIUS. CICERO. ANTONIUS. CATO. CATULUS. CRASSUS. GALLA. PORTER. LICTORS. CÆSAR. Qu. CICERO. SYLLan*s. FLACCUS. POMTINIUS. SANGA. SENATORS. ALLOBROGES. PETREIUS. SOLDIERS. SERVANTS. PAGES. C H O R U S. The S C E N E R O M E. The Principal T R A G œ D I A N S were, RIC. BURBADGE. ALEX. COOKE. JOH. LOWIN. WILL. OSTLER. RICH. ROBINSON. JOH. HEMINGS. HEN. CONDEL. JOH. UNDERWOOD. NIC. TOOLY. WILL. EGLESTONE.