...after escaping "free and clear," and has done it "Out of mere wantonness!" He's been a clever devil but O, the dull devil Was in this brain of mine when I devised it, And Mosca gave it second . . . But Mosca gave it second not in support but in his own plot. The desperate (and foolish) hope...

...the situation. "a labyrinth" (Vx42). ln the street. Volpone admits that he has caught himself: "To make a snare for mine own neck! and run / My head into it. wilfully! with laughter!" (V.xi.1-2). For Voltore. Volpone comes back from the dead and begins his counter-plot against Mosca....

...writ; It cannot be but he is possessed, grave fathers. 50 [Exeunt] 5.11 [Enter] Volpone VOLPONE To make a snare for mine own neck! And run My head into...and clear! Out of mere wantonness! O, the dull devil 0 Was in this brain of mine when I devised it, 5 And Mosca gave it second; he must now Help to sear...

...fathers. 50 [They examine the papers.] ACT V SCENE xi [Enter elsewhere on stage] VOLPONE. [Volpone.] To make a snare for mine own neck! and run My head into...devil Was in this brain of mine when I devised it, 5 And Mosca gave it second; he must now Help to sear up this vein, or we bleed dead. [Enter NANO, ANDROGYNO,...

...grave fathers. [Exeunt] 30 some-deal: in some part ACT V, Scene xi [A street] Enter Volpone Volp. To make a snare for mine own neck! And run My head into...'scaped, was free and clear! Out of mere wantonness! Oh, the dull devil Was in this brain of mine when I devised it; 5 And Mosca gave it second : he must...

...fathers. 50 [They examine the papers.] ACT 5 SCENE n [Enter elsewhere on stage] VOLPONE. Volpone. To make a snare for mine own neck! And run My head into...scaped, was free and clear! Out of mere wantonness! Oh, the dull devil Was in this brain of mine when I devised it, 5 And Mosca gave it second; he must...