Ben Jonson


  E  P  I  G  R  A  M  S .  


XVII. — TO THE LEARNED CRITIC.  

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 hie.
And but a sprig of bays, given by thee,
Shall outlive garlands, stol'n from the chaste tree.


 
Source:
Jonson, Ben.  The Works of Ben Jonson.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1853. 786.
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