Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MIME, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That, not a pair of friends each other see Last Line: Men love thee not for this: they laugh at thee. Subject(s): Jones, Inigo (1573-1652) | ||||||||
That, not a pair of friends each other see, But the first question is, when one saw thee? That there's no journey set, or thought upon, To Brainford, Hackney, Bow, but thou mak'st one; That scarce the town designeth any feast To which th'art not a week, bespoke a guest; That still th'art made the supper's flag, the drum, The very call, to make all others come: Think'st thou, Mime, this is great? Or, that they strive Whose noise shall keep thy miming most alive, Whilst thou dost raise some player, from the grave, Outdance the babion, or outboast the brave, Or (mounted on a stool) thy face doth hit On some new gesture, that's imputed wit? O, run not proud of this. Yet, take thy due. Thou dost outzany Cokely, Pod; nay Gue: And thine own Coriat too. But (wouldst thou see) Men love thee not for this: they laugh at thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN EXPOSTULATION WITH INIGO JONES by BEN JONSON ON THE TOWN'S HONEST MAN by BEN JONSON TO INIGO, MARQUESS WOULD BE, A COROLLARY by BEN JONSON AN EPIGRAM OF INIGO JONES by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 1. HIS EXCUSE FOR LOVING by BEN JONSON A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 4. HER TRIUMPH by BEN JONSON A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 5. HIS DISCOURSE WITH CUPID by BEN JONSON A FIT OF RHYME AGAINST RHYME [OR, RIME] by BEN JONSON A NYMPH'S PASSION by BEN JONSON A SONNET, TO THE NOBLE LADY, THE LADY MARY WROTH by BEN JONSON |
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