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[RUGGLE, CHARLES.] Ignoramus. Comoedia coram Regia Maiestate Jacobi Regi Angliae. &c. [4], 161 [i. e., 187] pages, including engraved frontispiece. 12mo, contemporary sheep with crack in leather on front cover; margins trimmed close, just touching text on some leaves, marginal dampstaining toward end. London: (T[homas] P[urfoot] for) I. S[pencer], 1630
first edition of a satire of common lawyers modelled on the 1596 Italian comedy La Trappolaria by Giovanni Battista della Porta, which was in turn derived from Plautus. Ruggle's play was performed before King James in 1615. Greg II, L8(a); STC 21445.
