EBOOK, DISCOVERIES ***
Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk, from the
1892 Cassell & Company edition.
DISCOVERIES MADE UPON MEN AND MATTER
AND SOME POEMS
Contents:
Introduction by Henry Morley
Sylva
Timber, or Discoveries ...
Some Poems
To William Camden
On My First Daughter
On My First Son
To Francis Beaumont
Of Life and Death
Inviting a Friend to Supper
Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy
Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H.
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke
To the Memory of my Beloved Master William Shakespeare
To Celia
The Triumph of Charis
In the Person of Womankind
Ode
Praeludium
Epode
An Elegy
INTRODUCTION
Ben Jonson's "Discoveries" are, as he says in the few Latin words
prefixed to them, "A wood--Sylva--of things and thoughts, in Greek
"[Greek text]" [which has for its first meaning material, but is also applied
peculiarly to kinds of wood, and to a wood], "from the multiplicity
and variety of the material contained in it. For, as we are
commonly used to call the infinite mixed multitude of growing trees
a wood, so the ancients gave the name of Sylvae--Timber Trees--to
books of theirs in which small works of various and diverse matter
were promiscuously brought together.
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