THE WORKS OF BEN JONSON.

The Muses' fairest light in no dark time;
The wonder of a learned age; the line
Which none can pass; the most proportion'd wit,
To nature, the best judge of what was fit;

The deepest, plainest, highest, clearest pen;
The voice most echo'd by consenting men ;

THE SOUL WHICH ANSWER'D BEST TO ALL WELL SAID
BY OTHERS, AND WHICH MOST REQUITAL MADE.

CLEVELAND.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX.

UNDERWOODS.-MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

87.

PINDARIC Ode on the Death of Sir

LUCIUS CARY AND SIR H. MORISON.

88. An Epigram to William Earl of

Newcastle, on his Fencing.

They talk of Fencing and the use

of arms.

89. To the Right Honourable the Lord High Trea-

surer of England, an Epistle Mendicant,

1631

Poor wretched states, prest by extremities.

90. To the King on his Birth-day, Nov. 19, 1632.

An Epigram Anniversary

This is king Charles his day. Speak it, thou

Tower.

91. On the Right Honourable and Virtuous Lord

Weston, Lord High Treasurer of England,

upon the Day he was made Earl of Port-

land, Feb. 17, 1632. To the Envious

Look up, thou seed of envy, and still bring.

92. To the Right Honourable Hierome, Lord Weston,

an Ode Gratulatory, for his Return from his

Embassy, 1632.

Such pleasure as the teeming earth.

93. Epithalamion

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Though thou hast past thy summer-standing, stay.

94. The humble Petition of poor Ben to the best of

Monarchs, Masters, Men, King Charles

Doth most humbly show it.

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