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

Ben Jonson

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSON

Love May Sake
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
BEN JONSON

Broken Honor Long
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSON

Life Play Whole
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
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
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary

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

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