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Jonson, Ben, 1573-1637

"Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems"


{31a} "More loquacious than eloquent; words enough, but little
wisdom."--Sallust.
{31b} Repeated in the following Latin. "The best treasure is in
that man's tongue, and he has mighty thanks, who metes out each
thing in a few words."--Hesiod.
{31c} Vid. Zeuxidis pict. Serm. ad Megabizum.--Plutarch.
{32a} "While the unlearned is silent he may be accounted wise, for
he has covered by his silence the diseases of his mind."
{32b} Taciturnity.
{33a} "Hold your tongue above all things, after the example of the
gods."--See Apuleius.
{33b} "Press down the lip with the finger."--Juvenal.
{33c} Plautus.
{33d} Trinummus, Act 2, Scen. 4.
{34a} "It was the lodging of calamity."--Mart. lib. 1, ep. 85.
{41} ["Ficta omnia celeriter tanquam flosculi decidunt, nec
simulatum potest quidquam esse diuturnum."--Cicero.]
{44a} Let a Punic sponge go with the book.--Mart. 1. iv. epig. 10.
{47a} He had to be repressed.
{49a} A wit-stand.
{49b} Martial. lib. xi. epig. 91. That fall over the rough ways
and high rocks.
{59a} Sir Thomas More. Sir Thomas Wiat. Henry Earl of Surrey.


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