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A good king is a public servant.

Ben Jonson

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON

Dog Hero Honor
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON

Heaven Prayer Praying
The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON

Children Dread Fire
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSON

Fall Love Stars
Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSON

Away Harmony More Peace
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
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Discourse Harsh Speech
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSON

Bird Kings Poet
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

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