Maxioms by Ben Jonson
Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument,
He'll bray you in a mortar.
Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument,
He'll bray you in a mortar.
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
A brute without a single redeeming point.
A brute without a single redeeming point.
Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast,
Still to read more
Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast,
Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.
Lady, it is to be presumed,
Though art's hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound.
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
