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EPIGRAM: TO PLAYWRIGHT by BEN JONSON

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First Line: PLAYWRIGHT ME READS, AND STILL MY VERSES DAMNS
Last Line: IN MY CHASTE BOOK: PROFESS THEM IN THINE OWN.

Playwright me reads, and still my verses damns,
He says, I want the tongue of epigrams;
I have no salt: no bawdry he doth mean.
For witty, in his language, is obscene.
Playwright, I loathe to have thy manners known
In my chaste book: profess them in thine own.



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