Ben Jonson Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, Sports, Time

  'Volpone' (1605) act 3, sc. 5.

• Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.

  Ben Jonson

  Sports, Lust, Decay

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.740

• How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

  Ben Jonson

  Sports, Fortune, Practise

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1894). “Ben Jonson”

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