Ben Jonson. On Something, That Walks Somewhere.

Ben Jonson

  E  P  I  G  R  A  M  S .

XI. — ON SOMETHING, THAT WALKS SOMEWHERE.

At court I met it, in clothes brave enough,
To be a courtier ;  and looks grave enough,
To seem a statesman :  as I near it came,
It made me a great face ;  I ask'd the name.
A Lord, it cried, buried in flesh, and blood,
And such from whom let no man hope least good,
For I will do none ;  and as little ill,
For I will dare none :  Good Lord, walk dead still.

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

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