Ben Jonson

Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.

Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.

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.

A third Cato has dropped from the skies.

A third Cato has dropped from the skies.

For he that once is good, is ever great.

For he that once is good, is ever great.

The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.

The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.