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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.

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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSON

Marriage Men Wife
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSON

Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
BEN JONSON

Done Noble Person Wrong
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSON

Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSON

Hath Made Success Wanton
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Discourse Harsh Speech
A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON

Argument Good Inspirational Life
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON

Death Good Man Men
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON

Devil Shame Truth

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.

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