Ben Jonson

A third Cato has dropped from the skies.

A third Cato has dropped from the skies.

The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.

The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.

Princes that would their people should do well
Must at themselves begin, as at the head;
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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.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

For a good poet's made, as well as born,
And such wast thou! Look how the father's face
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For a good poet's made, as well as born,
And such wast thou! Look how the father's face
Lives in his issue; even so the race
Of Shakespeare's mind and manner brightly shine
In his well-turned and true-filed lines;
In each of which he seems to shake a lance,
As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.