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  • Tell troth and shame the devil.

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    Ben Jonson (1756). “The tale of a tub. The sad shepherd; or, A tale of Robin Hood. Mortimer's fall. Entertai[n]ments. Speeches. Masques at court”, p.28

  • That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.

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  • Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

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    Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.746
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Ben Jonson

  • Born: June 11, 1572
  • Died: August 6, 1637
  • Occupation: Playwright
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