...if some looser brain, In flux of wit uncivily befilth His slight composures ? Shall his bosom faint, If drunken Censure belch out sour breath, From Hatred's...his resolve be struck through with the blirt Of a goose breath ? What imperfect born, * It appears from this passage that mew, and blirt, were the expressions...

...if some looser brain, In flux of wit uncivily befilth His slight composures ? Shall his bosom faint, If drunken Censure belch out sour breath, From Hatred's...his resolve be struck through with the blirt Of a goose breath ? What imperfect born, * It appears from this passage that ;»<«•. and blirt, were...

...drunken Censure belch out sower breath From Hatreds surfet on his labours front ? Nay, say some halfe a dozen rancorous breasts Should plant them-selves...purpose to discharge Imposthum'd malice on his latest sceane, Shall his resolve be struck through with the blirt Of a goose breath ? What imperfect borne,...

...drunken Censure belch out sower breath From Hatreds surfet on his labours front ? Nay, say some halfe a dozen rancorous breasts Should plant them-selves...purpose to discharge Imposthum'd malice on his latest sceane, Shall his resolve be struck through with the blirt Of a goose breath ? What imperfect borne,...

...drunken Censure belch out sower breath From Hatreds surfet on his labours front ? Nay, say some halfe a dozen rancorous breasts Should plant them-selves...purpose to discharge Imposthum'd malice on his latest sceane, Shall his resolve be struck through with the blirt Of a goose breath ? What imperfect borne,...

...of contempt that chokes the breath of wit, these aforesaid trt'a sunt omnia, knights of the mew, 1 will sit heavy on the skirts of his scenes, if 24...struck through with the blirt Of a goose-breath ? What imperfect-bom, What short-liv'd meteor, what cold-hearted snow Would melt in dolour, cloud his mudded...

...? Believe it, Doricus, his spirit Is higher blooded than to quake and pant At the report of Scoff's artillery. Shall he be crest-fall'n, if some looser...mudded eyes, Sink down his jaws, if that some juiceless husk,^S 40 Some boundless ignorance, should on sudden shoot His gross-knobb'd burbolt J with—" That's...

...aforesaid tria sunt omnia, knights of the mew,1 will sit heavy on the skirts of his scenes, if 24 Phl. If what ? Believe it, Doricus, his spirit Is higher...latest scene, Shall his resolve be struck through with\he blirt Of a goose-breath ? What imperfect-born, What short-liv'd meteor, what cold-hearted snow...

...whisperings, never so treacherously labor to undermine my unfenced reputation.' Preface to the Fawn (1606). Nay, say some half a dozen rancorous breasts Should...themselves on purpose to discharge Imposthum'd malice at my latest scene. — Induction to What You Will (1607). In Ben Jonson's Poetaster, the prologue...

...means of proving them. In flux of wit uncivilly befilth His slight composures ? Shall his bosom faint, If drunken Censure belch out sour breath From Hatred's surfeit on his labour's front ? ' The Prologue also defies criticism in saying of the author : — Nor labours he the favour of the...