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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.

Ben Jonson

Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSON

Long Pleasure Treasure
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
BEN JONSON

Art Ask Matter Praise Style
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSON

Action Calumny Watches
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Inspiration Looks
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSON

Disease Mean Music
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON

Dog Hero Honor
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON

Art Enemy Ignorance
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSON

Fortune Practise Sports
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

Men Money
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
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
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSON

Beast Fats Mischief

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.

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