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ON SOMETHING THAT WALKS SOMEWHERE by BEN JONSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: AT COURT I MET IT, IN CLOTHES BRAVE ENOUGH
Last Line: "FOR I WILL DARE NONE."" GOOD LORD, WALK DEAD STILL."
Subject(s): FACADES; APPEARANCES;
At court I met it, in clothes brave enough
To be a courtier, and looks grave enough
To seem a statesman. As I near it came,
"A lord, it cried, buried in flesh and blood,
And such from whom let no man hope least good,
For I will do none; and as little ill,
For I will dare none." Good Lord, walk dead still.



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