Arts & Sciences

To the Learned Critic

by Ben Jonson 1572-1637

From Epigrams (1616)

Arts & Sciences

May others fear, fly, and traduce thy name,
As guilty men do magistrates; glad I,
That wish my poems a legitimate fame,
Charge them, for crown, to thy sole censure hie.
And but a sprig of bays, given by thee,
Shall outlive garlands, stol'n from the chaste tree.

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Epigrams, no. 17.

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Jonson, Ben. “To the Learned Critic.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/66/.

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Jonson, Ben. “To the Learned Critic.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/66/.

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