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The New Inn

The New Inn
Ben Jonson

The New Inn, or The Light Heart is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy by English playwright and poet Ben Jonson.

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“Lady: How do's it fit? wilt come together? Prudence: Hardly. Lad: Thou must make shift with it. Pride feels no Pain.”

Ben Jonson The New Inn

Act II, Scene I
The New Inn, or The Light Heart (licensed 19 January 1629; printed 1631)

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“I never thought an angry person valiant:
Virtue is never aided by a vice.”

Ben Jonson The New Inn

Lovel, Act IV, Scene iii
The New Inn, or The Light Heart (licensed 19 January 1629; printed 1631)

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