Arts & Sciences

To Playwright

by Ben Jonson 1572-1637

From Epigrams (1616)

Arts & Sciences

Playwright me reads, and still my verses damns,
He says I want the tongue of epigrams;
I have no salt, no bawdry he doth mean;
For witty, in his language, is obscene.
Playwright, I loath to have thy manners known
In my chaste book; profess them in thine own.

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Epigrams, no. 49.

MLA

Jonson, Ben. “To Playwright.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/93/.

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Jonson, Ben. “To Playwright.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/93/.

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