Poetaster [1601] / Ben Jonson
dc.contributor | Craig, Hugh Department of English University of Newcastle 2308 Newcastle, N.S.W. |
dc.contributor.author | Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:54:29Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:54:29Z |
dc.date.created | 1601 |
dc.date.issued | 1991-04-12 |
dc.identifier | ota:1440 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1440 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1440 |
dc.description.abstract | Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. -- Poetaster [1601]. -- s.l. : s.n., s.d. -- Short Title Catalogue 14781 |
dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 201 KB) |
dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
dc.rights | Oxford Text Archive |
dc.rights.uri | https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/page/licence-ota |
dc.rights.label | ACA |
dc.subject.lcsh | English drama -- 17th century |
dc.subject.other | Plays |
dc.title | Poetaster [1601] / Ben Jonson |
dc.type | Text |
has.files | yes |
branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 209308 |
files.count | 2 |
otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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100:01;001[U ]| Light, I salute thee; but with wounded nerues:
100:01;001[U ]| Wishing thy golden splendor, pitchy darknesse.
100:01;001[U ]| What is here? The arraignment? Aye: This, this is it$6@1$,
100:01;001[U ]| That$6@1$ our$6@2$ sunke eyes have wak't for$5$, all this while:
100:01;001[U ]| Here will$1$ be subiect for$4$ my Snakes and me,
100:01;001[U ]| Cling to$4$ my necke and wrists my louing Wormes;
100:01;001[U ]| And cast you round, in$4$ soft, and amorous foulds,
100:01;001[U ]| Till I do bid, vncurle: Then, breake your knots;
100:01;001[U ]| Shoote out your*selues at length, as your forc'd stings
100:01;001[U ]| Would hide them*selues within his malic't sides,
100:01;001[U ]| To$4$ whom I shall apply you. Stay: the shine
100:01;001[U ]| Of this assembly here offends my sight,
100:01;001[U ]| I will$1$ darken that$6@2$ first, and out-face their grace.
100:01;001[U ]| Wonder not if I stare: These fifteene weekes
100:01;001[U ]| (So$5@1$ long as since t . . .