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

Ben Jonson

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.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
BEN JONSON

Real Spices Virtue
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

Art Men Monsters
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
BEN JONSON

Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
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
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSON

Crafts Scratches Succeed
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame

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

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