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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIGRAM: TO CENSORIOUS COURTLING, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Courtling, I rather thou shouldst utterly
Last Line: Would both thy folly, and thy spite betray.
Variant Title(s): To Censorious Courtling
First Line: Courtling, I rather thou shouldst utterly
Last Line: Would both thy folly, and thy spite betray.
Variant Title(s): To Censorious Courtling
Courtling, I rather thou shouldst utterly
Dispraise my work, than praise it frostily:
When I am read, thou feign'st a weak applause,
As if thou wert my friend, but lackd'st a cause.
This but thy judgement fools: the other way
Would both thy folly, and thy spite betray.
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