This was succeeded, the next year, by _Every Man out of his Humour_.

He wrote a great number of both tragedies and comedies, among which the principal are _Cynthia's Revels_, _Sejanus_, _Volpone_, _Catiline's Conspiracy_, and _The Alchemist_.

In 1616, he received a pension from the crown of one hundred marks, which was increased by Charles I., in 1630, to one hundred pounds.
He was the friend of Shakspeare, and had many wit-encounters with him.

In these, Fuller compares Jonson to a great Spanish galleon, "built far higher in learning, solid and slow in performance," and Shakspeare to an "English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Massinger, 1548-1640: born at Salisbury.

Is said to have written thirty-eight plays, of which only eighteen remain.