Ben Jonson: Herring

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Ben Jonson: 186 quotes6 likes

“Not to know vice at all, and keep true state,
Is virtue, and not fate:
Next to that virtue is to know vice well,
And her black spite expel.”

Epode, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest

“Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.”

The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries

“So breaks the sun earth's rugged chains,
Wherein rude winter bound her veins;
So grows both stream and source of price,
That lately fettered were with ice.
So naked trees get crispèd heads,
And coloured coats the roughest meads,
And all get vigour, youth and spright,
That are but looked on by his light.”

The Irish Masque at Court (1613)

“Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.”

That Women Are But Men's Shadows, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest

“Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears:
Yet, slower, yet; O faintly, gentle springs:
List to the heavy part the music bears,
Woe weeps out her division, when she sings.
Droop herbs, and flowers,
Fall grief in showers,
Our beauties are not ours;
O, I could still,
Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,
Drop, drop, drop, drop,
Since nature's pride is now, a withered daffodil.”

Ben Jonson Cynthia's Revels

Cynthia's Revels (1600), Act I, scene i

“A gentleman reading a poem that began withWhere is that man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen?[Jonson] calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering "No," demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.”

Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden (1711)

“Courses even with the sun
Doth her mighty brother run.”

The Gipsies Metamorphosed, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“He is a narrow-minded man, that affects a triumph in any glorious study; but to triumph in a lie, and a lie themselves have forged, is frontless. Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.”

The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries