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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.

Ben Jonson

I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSON

Men Popularity Slave
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON

Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
BEN JONSON

Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSON

Horse Plies Wine
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSON

Little Wise World
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
BEN JONSON

Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSON

Sounded Swelling Use Words

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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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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