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TO THE LEARNED CRITIC by BEN JONSON

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First Line: MAY OTHERS FEAR, FLY, AND TRADUCE THY NAME
Last Line: SHALL OUTLIVE GARLANDS, STOL'N FROM THE CHASTE TREE.
Subject(s): CRITICS & CRITICISM;
May others fear, fly, and traduce thy name,
As guilty men do magistrates: glad I,
That wish my poems a legitimate fame,
Charge them, for crown, to thy sole censure high.
And, but a sprig of bays, given by thee,
Shall outlive garlands, stol'n from the chaste tree.






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