THE

WORKS

OF

BEN JONSON,

IN NINE VOLUMES.

WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY,
AND A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR,

By W. GIFFORD, Esq.

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The wonder of a learned age; the line

Which none can pass; the most proportion'd wit,

To nature, the best judge of what was fit;

The deepest, plainest, highest, clearest pen;

The voice most echo'd by consenting men ;

THE SOUL WHICH ANSWER'D BEST TO ALL WELL SAID

BY OTHERS, AND WHICH MOST REQUITAL MADE.

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In the presentation at Court on Twelfth-night, 1623.

Qui se mirantur, in illos
Virus habe nos hæc novimus esse nihil.