Arts & Sciences

To Censorious Courtling

by Ben Jonson 1572-1637

From Epigrams (1616)

Arts & Sciences

Courtling, I rather thou should'st utterly
Dispraise my work, than praise it frostily:
When I am read, thou feign'st a weak applause,
As if thou wert my friend, but lack'dst a cause.
This but thy judgment fools: the other way
Would both thy folly and thy spite betray.

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Epigrams, no. 52.

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Jonson, Ben. “To Censorious Courtling.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/96/.

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Jonson, Ben. “To Censorious Courtling.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/96/.

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