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

Ben Jonson

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

Discourse Harsh Speech
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

Ambition Needs Slave
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.
BEN JONSON

Easily May Men Taught Wise
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Guilty Shame
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

Men Money
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
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
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSON

Example Law Men Patteren People
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSON

Evil Knows Suspect
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON

Favors Fool Fortune
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
BEN JONSON

Benefits Done Men
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 was not of an age, but for all time!
BEN JONSON

Age Time

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

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