Arts & Sciences

To the same. On the same

by Ben Jonson 1572-1637

From Epigrams (1616)

Arts & Sciences

Who, Edmonds, reads thy book, and doth not see
What the antique soldiers were, the modern be?
Wherein thou shew'st, how much the later are
Beholding to this master of the war;
And that in action there is nothing new,
More, than to vary what our elders knew;
Which all but ignorant captains will confess;
Nor to give Caesar this, makes ours the less.
Yet thou, perhaps, shalt meet some tongues will grutch,
That to the world thou should'st reveal so much,
And thence deprave thee and thy work: to those
Caesar stands up, as from his urn late rose,
By thy great help; and doth proclaim by me,
They murder him again, that envy thee.

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Epigrams, no. 111.

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Jonson, Ben. “To the same. On the same.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/151/.

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Jonson, Ben. “To the same. On the same.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/151/.

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