Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MY OLD FAITHFUL SERVANT, AND MY LOVING FRIEND RICHARD BROME, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had you for a servant, once, dick brome Last Line: He'll be a pilot, scarce can guide a plough. Subject(s): Brome, Richard (d. 1652) | ||||||||
I had you for a servant, once, Dick Brome; And you performed a servant's faithful parts: Now, you are got into a nearer room, Of fellowship, professing my old arts. And you do do them well, with good applause, Which you have justly gained from the stage, By observation of those comic laws Which I, your master, first did teach the age. You learned it well; and, for it, served your time, A prenticeship: which few do nowadays. Now each court hobby-horse will wince in rhyme; Both learned, and unlearned, all write plays. It was not so of old: men took up trades That knew the crafts they had been bred in, right: An honest Bilbo-smith would make good blades, And the physician teach men spew, or shite; The cobbler kept him to his nall; but, now He'll be a pilot, scarce can guide a plough. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...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 AN ODE TO HIMSELF by BEN JONSON ANSWER TO MASTER WITHER'S SONG, 'SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR?' by BEN JONSON EPICOENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN: FREEDOM IN DRESS by BEN JONSON |
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