Ben Jonson


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XXXII. — ON SIR JOHN ROE. (II)   

What two brave perils of the private sword
     Could not effect, nor all the Furies do,
That self-divided Belgia did afford ;
     What not the envy of the seas reach'd to,
The cold of Mosco, and fat Irish air,
     His often change of clime, though not of mind,
What could not work ; at home, in his repair
     Was his blest fate, but our hard lot to find.
Which shews, wherever death doth please t'appear,
     Seas, sérenes, swords, shot, sickness, all are there.


 
Source:
Jonson, Ben.  The Works of Ben Jonson.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1853. 787.
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