Then in Eastward Ho! a group of rogues sailing at night for the New World in a leaky vessel end up on the Isle of Dogs, but are convinced they are in France. They are so useless that they can’t even get out of London. How do you imagine you can sail across the Atlantic in search of a fortune, Jonson asks, if you can’t see beyond your own city? The Devil is an Ass is even more pointed in its satirical representation of contemporary London. Pug, a junior devil, begs Satan to be sent to the capital to perform his master’s work. Cast adrift among conmen and knaves, he tries his hardest to be evil but invariably fails, earning a beating when trying to tempt a wife into adultery, only to be denounced as a spy to her husband. Admitting defeat, he returns to the safety of Hell and his relatively benign master.