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AN EPIGRAM TO MY JOVIAL GOOD FRIEND MR ROBERT DOVER by BEN JONSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: I CANNOT BRING MY MUSE TO DROP HER VIES
Last Line: OF SUBJECTS; LET SUCH ENVY, TILL THEY BURST.
Subject(s): DOVER, ROBERT (1575-1652); HUNTING; HUNTERS;
I cannot bring my muse to drop her vies
'Twixt Cotswold, and the Olympic exercise:
But I can tell thee, Dover, how thy games
Renew the glories of our blessed James:
How they do keep alive his memory;
With the glad country, and posterity:
How they advance true love, and neighbourhood,
And do both Church, and commonwealth the good,
In spite of hypocrites, who are the worst
Of subjects; let such envy, till they burst.



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