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Ben Jonson

1573 AD — 1637 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Every Man in his Humour
Every Man out of his Humour
Epicœne; Or, the Silent Woman
The Poetaster
Sejanus
The Masque of Hymen
The Gipsies Metamorphosed
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L
Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland
The Forest
To the Memory of Shakespeare
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke
Underwoods
Elegy on the Lady Jane Pawlet
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Page 335 · printed citation: Ben Jonson (A Celebration of Charis)
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01c. 1605 AD

It was a mighty while ago.

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02c. 1605 AD

Hang sorrow! care 'll kill a cat.

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03c. 1605 AD

As he brews, so shall he drink.

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04c. 1605 AD

Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.

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05c. 1605 AD

Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.

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06c. 1605 AD

It must be done like lightning.

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07c. 1605 AD

There shall be no love lost.

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08c. 1605 AD

Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast.

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09c. 1605 AD

Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free,— Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

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10c. 1605 AD

That old bald cheater, Time.

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11c. 1605 AD

The world knows only two,—that 's Rome and I.

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12c. 1605 AD

Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.

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13c. 1605 AD

Courses even with the sun Doth her mighty brother run.

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14c. 1605 AD

Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live.

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15c. 1605 AD

Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice,—almighty gold.

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16c. 1605 AD

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I 'll not look for wine.

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17c. 1605 AD

Soul of the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room.

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18c. 1605 AD

Marlowe's mighty line.

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19c. 1605 AD

Small Latin, and less Greek.

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20c. 1605 AD

He was not of an age, but for all time.

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21c. 1605 AD

For a good poet 's made as well as born.

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22c. 1605 AD

Sweet swan of Avon!

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23c. 1605 AD

Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse,— Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.

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24c. 1605 AD

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink.

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