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Cynthia's Revels

Cynthia's Revels

Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love is a late Elizabethan stage play, a satire written by Ben Jonson. The play was one element in the Poetomachia or War of the Theatres between Jonson and rival playwrights John Marston and Thomas Dekker.


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“True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.”

Cynthia's Revels (1600), Act III, scene ii

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