Arts & Sciences

To Prowle, the Plagiary

by Ben Jonson 1572-1637

From Epigrams (1616)

Arts & Sciences

Forbear to tempt me, Prowle, I will not show
A line unto thee, till the world it know;
Or that I've by two good sufficient men,
To be the wealthy witness of my pen:
For all thou hear'st, thou swear'st thyself didst do.
Thy wit lives by it, Prowle, and belly too.
Which, if thou leave not soon, though I am loth,
I must a libel make, and cozen both.

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Epigrams, no. 81.

MLA

Jonson, Ben. “To Prowle, the Plagiary.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/122/.

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Jonson, Ben. “To Prowle, the Plagiary.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/122/.

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