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Ben Jonson

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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.


— Ben Jonson


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Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.


— Ben Jonson


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Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.


— Ben Jonson


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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.


— Ben Jonson


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Talking is the disease of age.


— Ben Jonson


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They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.


— Ben Jonson


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They that know no evil will suspect none.


— Ben Jonson


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This is the very womb and bed of enormity.


— Ben Jonson


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'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.


— Ben Jonson


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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.


— Ben Jonson


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His late plays or "dotages" particularly The Magnetic Lady and The Sad Shepherd exhibit signs of an accommodation with the romantic tendencies of Elizabethan comedy. In 1598 Jonson produced his first great success Every Man in His Humour capitalising on the vogue for humorous plays which George Chapman had begun with An Humorous Day's Mirth. "
Thomas Fuller relates stories of Jonson and Shakespeare engaging in debates in the Mermaid Tavern; Fuller imagines conversations in which Shakespeare would run rings around the more learned but more ponderous Jonson.

Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (c. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.

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