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TO HIS FRIEND THE AUTHOR UPON HIS RICHARD by BEN JONSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN THESE, AND SUCH, THEIR VOICES HAVE EMPLOYED
Last Line: THY RICHARD, RAISED IN SONG, PAST PULLING DOWN.
Subject(s): BROOKE, CHRISTOPHER (1570-1628);

When these, and such, their voices have employed;
What place is for my testimony void?
Or, to so many, and so broad seals had,
What can one witness, and a weak one, add
To such a work, as could not need theirs? Yet
If praises, when they are full, heaping admit,
My suffrage brings thee all increase, to crown
Thy @3Richard@1, raised in song, past pulling down.



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