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A Celebration of Charis I His Excuse for Loving

Let it not your wonder move,    Less your laughter, that I love.    Though I now write fifty years,    I have had, and have, my peers;    Poets, though divine, are men,    Some have lov'd as old again.    And it is not always face,    Clothes, or fortune, gives the grace;    Or the feature, or the youth.   But the language and the truth,   With the ardour and the passion,   Gives the lover weight and fashion.   If you then will read the story,   First prepare you to be sorry   That you never knew till now   Either whom to love or how;   But be glad, as soon with me,   When you know that this is she   Of whose beauty it was sung;   She shall make the old man young,   Keep the middle age at stay,   And let nothing high decay,   Till she be the reason why   All the world for love may die.

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Form: couplets1.

A poem in ten lyric pieces, first printed in Works, 1640.

Most of the poem was probably written before 1616, when The Devil is an Ass, containing the last two stanzas of \

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Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637[2]) was an English playwright and poet, whose artistry exerted a lasting influence upon Eng…

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