The Workes of Benjamin Jonson

Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637)

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[My masters and friends, and good people draw neere]

[I was not wearier where I lay]

[Roome, roome, make roome for the bouncing bellie]

[Come on, come on; and where you go]

Song.

1. Straine. Song 2.

[From a Gipsie, in the morning]

[Come noble Nymphs, and doe not hide]

VNDER-VVOODS. POEMS OF DEVOTION.

[Though I am young, and cannot tell, ]

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CVI. TO Sir Edward Herbert.

If men get name, for some one vertue: Then,
What man art thou, that art so many men,
All-vertuous Herbert! on whose every part
Truth might spend all her voice, Fame all her art.

Whether thy learning they would take, or wit,
Or valour, or thy judgement seasoning it,
Thy standing upright to thy selfe, thy ends
Like straight, thy pietie to God, and friends:
Their latter praise would still the greatest bee,
And yet, they, all together, lesse than thee.

University of Virginia Library

CVI. TO Sir Edward Herbert.