<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391886" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To my Friend M. Ben Jonson, upon his Catiline</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If thou hadst itch'd after the wild applause<br>Of common people, and hadst made thy laws<br>In writing such as catch'd at present voice,<br>I should commend the thing, but not thy choice.<br>But thou hast squared thy rules by what is good,<br>And art three ages yet from understood:<br>And (I dare say) in it there lies much wit<br>Lost, till the reader can grow up to it;<br>Which they can ne'er outgrow, to find it ill,<br>But must fall back again, or like it still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Beaumont">Francis Beaumont</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391886" data-title="To my Friend M. Ben Jonson, upon his Catiline de Francis Beaumont" data-description="If thou hadst itch'd after the wild applause Of common people, and hadst made thy laws In writing such as catch'd at present voice, I should commend the thing, but not thy choice. But thou hast squared thy rules by what is good, And art three ages..."></div> </div> </div>

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