Ben Jonson

For he that once is good, is ever great.

For he that once is good, is ever great.

I do honour the very flea of his dog.

I do honour the very flea of his dog.

Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.

Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.

Yet shall you have to rectify your palate,
An olive, capers, or some better salad
Ushering the read more

Yet shall you have to rectify your palate,
An olive, capers, or some better salad
Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen,
If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,
Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney
Is not to be despaired of for our money;
And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,
The sky not falling, think we may have larks.

Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.

Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.