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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

Ben Jonson

Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

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