Arts & Sciences
To Alchemists
From Epigrams (1616)
Arts & Sciences
If all you boast of your great art be true;
Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Codex Note
Epigrams, no. 6.
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Jonson, Ben. “To Alchemists.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/58/.
Chicago
Jonson, Ben. “To Alchemists.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/58/.
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