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On Playwright
From Epigrams (1616)
Arts & Sciences
Playwright, by chance, hearing some toys
I'd writ,
Cry'd to my face, they were th' elixir of wit:
And I must now believe him; for to-day,
Five of my jests, then stolen, past him a play.
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Codex Note
Epigrams, no. 100.
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Jonson, Ben. “On Playwright.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/141/.
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Jonson, Ben. “On Playwright.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/141/.
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