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From Thomas Palmer, The Sprite of Trees and
Herbs (1599)
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From Nicholas Breton, Melancholic Humours
(1600), ‘In Authorem’
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Fragments from England’s Parnassus (1600)
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Elegy on Thomas Nashe, ‘Ad Carissimam Memoriam
Thomae Nashi’ (1601)
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From Robert Chester, Love's Martyr,
'The Phoenix Analysed' (1601)
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From Robert Chester, Love's Martyr, Ode
‘ἔνϑουσιαστιϰκὴ’ [‘Splendour! O more than mortal’] (1601)
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Ode (‘If men and times were now’)
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An Epistle to a Friend
(‘Censure not sharply, then’)
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A Speech out of Lucan (‘Just
and fit actions, Ptolemy, he saith’)
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From Hugh Holland, Pancharis
(1603), Ode ἀλληγοριϰκὴ (‘Who saith our times nor have, nor can’)
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A
Panegyre on the Happy Entrance of James ... to His First High Session of
Parliament (1604)
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A Panegyre on the Happy Entrance of James ... to His First High Session of Parliament:
(1604 quarto)
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A Panegyre on the Happy Entrance of James ... to His First High Session of Parliament:
(1616 folio)
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From Thomas Wright, The Passions of the Mind in
General (1604), ‘To the Author’
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From John
Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess (1609-10), ‘To the Worthy Author, Master
John Fletcher’
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From
Coryate’s Crudities (1611), ‘Certain Opening and Drawing Distichs’
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From Coryate’s Crudities (1611),
‘The Character of the Famous Odcombian’
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From Coryate’s Crudities (1611),
‘To the Right Noble Tom Tell-Truth of His Travails’
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From Coryate’s Crambe (1611),
‘Certain Verses’
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From Thomas Farnaby’s edition of
Juvenal, Persius, and Seneca (1612), Juvenal, ‘Temporibus lux magna fuit
Iuvenalis avitis’
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From Thomas Farnaby’s edition of
Juvenal, Persius, and Seneca (1612), Persius, ‘Cum Iuvenale tuo, Farnabi,
Persius exit’
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From Thomas Farnaby’s edition of
Juvenal, Persius, and Seneca (1612), Seneca, ‘Commoedias trustalis Plauti
mola’ ‘
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A Speech Presented unto King James at a Tilting,
in the Behalf of the Two Noble Brothers (1613)
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From John Stephens, Cynthia’s Revenge (1613), ‘To His Much and Worthily
Esteemed Friend the Author’
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Martial, Epigram 10.47 translated (‘The things that make the
happier life are these’)
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To the Most Noble, and Above His
Titles, Robert, Earl of Somerset (1613)
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From Christopher Brooke, The Ghost of Richard the Third
(1614), ‘To His Friend the Author Upon His Richard’
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From The Husband (1614), ‘To the Worthy
Author’
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From William Browne,
Britannia’s Pastorals (1616), To My Truly-Beloved Friend’
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Epigrams
(1616)
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Epigrams: (1616 folio)
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Epigrams: (1640 quarto)
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Epigrams: (1640 duodecimo)
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The Forest
(1616)
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The Forest: (1616 folio)
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A Grace by Ben Jonson Extempore Before King James
[in three versions] (1617-18)
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From The Georgics of Hesiod, translated by George Chapman
(1618), ‘To My Worthy and Honoured Friend’
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To Master Ben Jonson in his
Journey by Master Craven, [and] This Was Master Ben Jonson’s Answer of the
Sudden (1618)
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Charles Cavendish to His Posterity
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Ben Jonson’s Sociable Rules for the Apollo,
trans. Alexander Brome
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Verses Over the Door at the Entrance into the
Apollo (1619)
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From James Mabbe, The Rogue
(1622), ‘On the Author, Work, and Translator’
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From Mr
William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1623), ‘To the
Reader’
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From Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and
Tragedies (1623), ‘To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Master William
Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left Us’
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To the Memory of That Most Honoured Lady Jane ...
Ogle (1625)
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From Lucan’s Pharsalia (1627), ‘To My Chosen Friend The
Learned Translator of Lucan, Thomas May, Esquire’
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From The Battle of Agincourt (1627), ‘The Vision of Ben
Jonson on the Muses of his Friend Michael Drayton’
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Ode to Himself (‘Come, leave the loathed stage’)
(1629)
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Epitaph on Katherine, Lady Ogle (1629)
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From John Beaumont, Bosworth Field (1629), ‘On
the Honoured Poems of his Honoured Friend, Sir John Beaumont,
Baronet’
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From Edward Filmer, French Court Airs (1629), ‘To My Worthy
Friend, Master Edward Filmer’
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An Expostulation with Inigo Jones (1631)
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To Inigo, Marquis Would-be: A Corollary
(1631)
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To a Friend: An Epigram of Him (1631)
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To My Detractor J[ohn] E[liot] (1632)
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From Richard
Brome, The Northern Lass (1632), ‘To My Old Faithful Servant ... Master
Richard Brome’
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An Answer to Alexander Gil (1632)
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A Song of Welcome to King Charles (1633)
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A
Song of the Moon (1633)
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From Alice Sutcliffe, Meditations of Man’s Mortality (1634),
‘To Mistress Alice Sutcliffe, on Her Divine Meditations’
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From Joseph Rutter, The Shepherd’s
Holiday (1635), ‘To My Dear Son and Right Learned Friend, Master
Joseph Rutter’
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From Annalia
Dubrensia (1636), ‘An Epigram to My Jovial Good Friend Master Robert
Dover’
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Horace His Art of Poetry, Made English by Ben Jonson (printed
1641)
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Horace His Art of Poetry: (1640-1 folio)
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The Underwood (printed 1641)
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The Underwood: (1640-1 folio)
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The Underwood: (1640 quarto)
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