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Beaumont's Dedication to Jonson's Catiline
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To my friend M. Ben: Ionson.
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F thou had'st itch'd after the wild applause
Of common people, and had'st made thy lawes
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In writing, such, as catch'd at present voice
I should commend the thing, but not thy choice.
But thou hast squar'd thy rules, by what is good;
And art, three ages yet, from vnderstood :
And ( I dare say ) in it, there lyes much wit
Lost, till thy readers can grow vp to it
Which they can ne're out-grow, to find it ill,
But must fall backe againe, or like it still. [10]
F R A N C. B E A V M O N T.
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