Underwoods

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 - Всего страниц: 146
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: You would be then most confident, that tho Publike affaires command me now to goe Out of your eyes, and be awhile away; Absence, or Distance, shall not breed decay. Your forme shines here, here fixed in my heart I may dilate my selfe, but not depart. Others by common Stars their courses run, When I see you, then I doe see my Sun, Till then 'tis all but darknesse, that I have, Rather then want your light, I wish a grave. An Elegie. TO make the Doubt cleare that no Woman's true, Was it my fate to prove it full in you. Thought I but one had breath'd the purer Ayre, And must she needs be false, because she's faire ? It is your beauties Marke, or of your youth, Or your perfection not to studie truth; Or thinke you heaven is deafe ? or hath no eyes ? Or those it has, winke at your perjuries; Are vowes so cheape with women ? or the matter Whereof they are made, that they are writ in water; And blowne away with wind ? or doth their breath Both hot and cold at once, threat life and death ? Who could have thought so many accents sweet Tun'd to our words, so many sighes should meet Blowne from our hearts, so many oathes and teares Sprinkled among ? All sweeter by our feares, And the Divine Impression of stolne kisses, That seal'd the rest, could now prove emptie blisses ? Did you draw bonds to forfeit ? Signe, to breake, Or must we read you quite from what you speake, And find the truth out the wrong way ? or must He first desire you false, would wish you just ? O, I prophane ! though most of women be, The common Monster, Love shall except thee My dearest Love, how ever jealousie, With Circumstance might urge the contrarie. Sooner He thinke the Sunne would cease to cheare The teeming Earth, and that forget to beare; Soo...

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Born in 1572, Ben Jonson rejected his father's bricklaying trade and ran away from his apprenticeship to join the army. He returned to England in 1592, working as an actor and playwright. In 1598, he was tried for murder after killing another actor in a duel, and was briefly imprisoned. One of his first plays, Every Man Out of His Humor (1599) had fellow playwright William Shakespeare as a cast member. His success grew with such works as Volpone (1605) and The Alchemist (1610) and he was popular at court, frequently writing the Christmas masque. He is considered a very fine Elizabethan poet. In some anti-Stratfordian circles he is proposed as the true author of Shakespeare's plays, though this view is not widely accepted. Jonson was appointed London historian in 1628, but that same year, his life took a downward turn. He suffered a paralyzing stroke and lost favor at court after an argument with architect Inigo Jones and the death of King James I. Ben Jonson died on August 6, 1637.

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