Jonson

Famous quotes containing the word jonson:

    Talking is the disease of age.
    —Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637)

    The owl is abroad, the bat and the toad,
    And so is the cat-a-mountain;
    The ant and the mole sit both in a hole,
    And frog peeps out o’ the fountain.
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    And since our Daintie age,
    Cannot indure reproofe,
    Make not thy selfe a Page,
    To that strumpet the Stage,
    But sing high and aloofe,
    Safe from the wolves black jaw, and the dull Asses hoofe.
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)