Excerpt from The Works of John Webster, Vol. 2
The Devils Law-case. Or, When, Women goe to Law, the Devill is full of Businesse. A new Tragecom?dy. The true and perfect Copie from the Originall. As it was approouvedly well Acted by her Maiesties Servants. Written by John Webster. Non quam diu, sed quam bene. London, Printed by A. M. for John Grismand, and are to be sold at his Shop in Paul's Alley at the Signe of the Gunne. 1623.
That this play must have been written but a short time before it was given to the press is evident from the following allusion, in it to the massacre of the English by the Dutch at Amboyna, which took place in February 1622;
"How? go to the East Indies, and so many Hollanders gone to fetch sauce for their pickled herrings! some have been peppered there too lately." Act IV. Sc. 2.
Whence the author derived the story of The Devil's Law Case I know not: the following observations by Langbaine are hardly worth quoting; "An accident like that of Romelio's stabbing Contarino out of malice, which turned to his preservation, is (if I mistake not,) in Skenkius his Observations: At least I am sure, the like happened to Ph?reus Jason, as you may see in Q. Val. Maximus, lib. i. cap. 8. The like story is related in Goulart's Histoires Admirables, tome I. p. 178."
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