The Poetaster by Ben Jonson
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He hath pluck'd her doves and sparrows,
To feather his sharp arrows, And alone prevaileth, While sick Venus waileth. But if Cypris once recover The wag; it shall behove her To look better to him: Or she will undo him. Alb. Wife, mum. Alb. O, most odoriferous music! Tuc. Aha, stinkard! Another Orpheus, you slave, another Orpheus! an Arion riding on the back of a dolphin, rascal! Gal. Have you a copy of this ditty, sir? Cris. Master Albius has. Alb. Ay, but in truth they are my Wife's verses; I must not shew them. Tuc. Shew them, bankrupt, shew them; they have salt in them, and will brook the air, stinkard. Gal. How! To his bright mistress Canidia! Cris. Ay, sir, that's but a borrowed name; as Ovid's Corinna, or Propertius his Cynthia, or your Nemesis, or Delia, Tibullus. |
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