Notes
1] Works, 1640, but composed in 1619-20, as line 15 suggests.
17] my rocky face. Dekker thus satirized Jonson's face in Satiro-mastix, 1602: "full of pockey-holes and pimples,'' "full of oylet-holes, like the cover of a warming pan."
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Original text: Ben Jonson, The workes of Benjamin Jonson (London: R. Bishop, sold by A. Crooke, 1640). STC 14754. stc Fisher Rare Book Library (Toronto). Also British Library copy as microfilmed in English Books 1475-1640. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms. P & R 14754 * 20250.
First publication date:
1640
RPO poem editor: F. D. Hoeniger
RP edition: 3RP 1.158.
Recent editing: 4:2002/4/3
Composition date:
1619
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1620
Rhyme: abbbacccbbdeedfggf