Ben Jonson - Volpone (1606)

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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

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I glory
More in the cunning purchase of my wealth
Than in the glad possession.

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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

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You that would last long, list to my song,
Make no more coil, but buy of this oil.
Would you be ever fair and young?
Stout of teeth and strong of tongue?
Tart of palate, quick of ear?
Sharp of sight, of nostril clear?
Moist of hand and light of foot?
(Or, I will come nearer to it)
Would you live free from all diseases,
Do the act your mistress pleases;
Yet fright all aches from your bones?
Here's a medicine for the nones.

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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.

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Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

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