Notes
1] Drummond reported Jonson as remarking: "he esteemeth John Done the first poet in the World in some things." Jonson wrote another epigram of twelve lines to Donne in which he praises him (lines 3-6) as a judge of poetry:
That so alone canst judge, so alone dost make;
And, in thy censures, evenly dost take
As free simplicity, to disavow,
As thou hast best authority to allow.
9] yet I would: still would I like to.
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Original text: Ben Jonson, The workes of Benjamin Jonson (London: Will Stansby, 1616). STC 14751.
First publication date:
1616
RPO poem editor: F. D. Hoeniger
RP edition: 3RP 1.155.
Recent editing: 4:2002/4/3
Form: Heroic Couplets