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• Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.

  Ben Jonson

  Queens, Sleep, Light

  Cynthia's Revels act 5, sc. 3 (1600)

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• Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

  Ben Jonson

  Rudeness, Folly, Impudence

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered”, p.78

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• Tell troth and shame the devil.

  Ben Jonson

  Truth, Devil, Shame

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The tale of a tub. The sad shepherd; or, A tale of Robin Hood. Mortimer's fall. Entertai[n]ments. Speeches. Masques at court”, p.28

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• Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.

  Ben Jonson

  Hate, Hatred, Ignorant

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3181, Delphi Classics

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• How ready is heaven to those that pray!

  Ben Jonson

  Prayer, Heaven, Praying

  Ben Jonson (2014). “Ben Jonson: Four Plays”, p.160, A&C Black

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• Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Sleep

  Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Taken, Fruit

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.803

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• It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

  Ben Jonson

  Honor, Noble, Ancestry

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• Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

  Ben Jonson

  Heaven, Half, Venture

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.743

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• A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

  Ben Jonson

  Eye, Government, Letters

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3197, Delphi Classics

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• O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

  Ben Jonson

  Time, Sun, Forget

  Ben Jonson (1816). “The works of Ben Jonson: With notes critical and explanatory, and a biographical memoir”, p.419

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• A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

  Ben Jonson

  Gratitude, Men, Needs

  Ben Jonson (1995). “Poetaster”, p.62, Manchester University Press

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• He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

  Ben Jonson

  Honesty, Vulgar

  Ben Jonson (1856). “Poetical Works of Ben Jonson. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.27

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• 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

  Men, Law, People

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• I do honor the very flea of his dog.

  Ben Jonson

  Dog, Hero, Honor

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.114

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• He threatens many that hath injured one.

  Ben Jonson

  Crime, Injured

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works of Ben Jonson ...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and Biographical Memoir”, p.59

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• Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.

  Ben Jonson

  Home, Stills, Wanderers

  1616 The Forest,'To the World'.

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• It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

  Ben Jonson

  Time, Sleep, Wind

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Works: Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected with Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.134

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• Each petty hand
  Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will
  Govern and carry her to her ends, must know
  His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails;
  What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers;
  Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em;
  What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

  Ben Jonson

  Spring, Hands, Weather

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The alchemist. Catiline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair”, p.188

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• Hell itself must yield to industry.

  Ben Jonson

  Yield, Hell, Industry

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.2391, Delphi Classics

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• Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Book

  Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

  Ben Jonson

  Sound, Bears, Argument

  Ben Jonson (1856). “Poetical Works of Ben Jonson”, p.286

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• Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not.

  Ben Jonson

  Horse, Wind, Rivers

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3181, Delphi Classics

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• One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

  Ben Jonson

  Women, Character, Trouble

  Ben Jonson, Margaret Jane Kidnie (2000). “Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment: Sejanus His Fall ; The Devil is an Ass ; The New Inn, Or, The Light Heart”, p.409, Oxford : Oxford University Press

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• The burnt child dreads the fire.

  Ben Jonson

  Children, Fire, Dread

  Ben Jonson, Peter Happe (1996). “The Devil Is An Ass”, p.69, Manchester University Press

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