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TO HIS FRIEND, BEN JONSON, OF HIS HORACE MADE ENGLISH by EDWARD HERBERT

First Line: TWAS NOT ENOUGH, BEN JONSON, TO BE THOUGHT
Last Line: TO BE THE HORACE OF OUR TIMES AND HIS.
Subject(s): HORACE (65-8 B.C.); JONSON, BEN (1572-1637); POETRY & POETS; TRANSLATING & INTERPRETING;
'TWAS not enough, Ben Jonson, to be thought
Of English poets best, but to have brought
In greater state to their acquaintance one
So equal to himself and thee, that none
Might be thy second, while thy glory is
To be the Horace of our times and his.



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