Ben Jonson. To All To Whom I Write.

Ben Jonson

E P I G R A M S .

IX. — TO ALL TO WHOM I WRITE.

May none whose scatter'd names honor my book,
For strict degrees of rank or title look :
'Tis 'gainst the manners of an epigram ;
And I a poet here, no herald am.

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

to Works of Ben Jonson