Ben Jonson

It is usualfor people in this country(out of pretended respectbut rather from an impertinent curiosity)to desire to seepersonsafter they aredead.
It is my earnest request that no personon any pretence whatevermay be permitted to see…

Амура пожелав воспеть,
Я стих расставил, словно сеть,
А он вскричал: "О нет, клянусь,
К поэту в сеть не попадусь!…

Where dost Thou carelesse lie
Buried in ease and sloth ?
Knowledge that sleeps, doth die ;
And this security,…

Drink to me, only, with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kisse but in the cup, And Ile not look for wine.
The thirst, that from the soule doth rise, Doth aske a drink divine:
But might I of Jove's Nectar sup, I…

It will be looked for, book, when some but see Thy title,
Epigrams, and named of me,
Thou should'st be bold, licentious, full of gall, Wormwood and sulphur, sharp and toothed withal,
Become a petulant thing, hurl ink and wit As…

Ну же, Селия, смелее!
Нег любви вкусим скорее!
Наши юные года
Нам даны не навсегда.…

Ты, Пенсхерст, не из мрамора сложен.
Нет у тебя ни блещущих колонн,
Ни крыш, горящих светом золотым,
Ни фонаря, чтоб похваляться им.…

Who says that Giles and Joan at discord be? Th' observing neighbors no such mood can see.
Indeed, poor Giles repents he married ever, But that his Joan doth too.
And Giles would
By his free will be in Joan's company; No more would…

I have no children:
But tonight a poem came in which a small child, my daughter, appeared at the door of a half-lit room where late one night I wrote at a heavy desk.
And though interruption was hardly welcome I took her to myself, just…

This morning, timely rapt with holy fire,
I thought to form unto my zealous Muse   What kind of creature I could most desire,
To honour, serve, and love; as poets use.
I meant to make her fair, and free, and wise

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;

I now think Love is rather deaf than blind,
For else it could not be
That she,
Whom I adore so much, should so slight me

Since you must go, and I must bid farewell,
Hear, mistress, your departing servant tell
What it is like : and do not think they can
Be idle words, though of a parting man.…

Ты мне сказал, что быть поэтом - стыд!
Пусть прозвище тебе отныне мстит!

Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast;
Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd:
Lady, it is to be presum'd,…

Кэмден, почтенный муж! За все, что знаю,
За все, что я собою представляю,
Я у тебя в долгу, как и страна,
Которая тобой наречена.…

The decorously informative
Guide to Sex suggested that any urgecould well be controlled by playing tennis:
and the game provided also "
manyharmless opportunities for healthysocial intercourse between the sexes."For weeks…

Beauties, have ye seen this toy,
Called Love, a little boy,
Almost naked, wanton, blind;
Cruel now, and then as kind?…

Прощай, мой Бенджамин. Вина моя
В том, что в твою удачу верил я.
Ты на семь лет был ссужен небом мне,
Но нынче оплатил я долг вполне.…

SOME act of LOVE'S bound to rehearse,
I thought to bind him in my verse :
Which when he felt, Away, quoth he,
Can poets hope to fetter me ?…

A farewell for a Gentlewoman, vertuous and
False world, good-night, since thou hast brought That houre upon my morne of age,
Hence-forth I quit thee from my thought, My part is ended on thy stage.
Doe not once hope, that thou canst…

Don Surly, to aspire the glorious name Of a great man, and to be thought the same,
Makes serious use of all great trade he know. He speaks to men with a Rhinocerotes' nose,
Which he thinks great; and so reads verses too, And that is…

ITHE faery beam upon you,
The stars to glister on you;
A moon of light
In the noon of night,…

Thy Praise, or Dispraise is to me alike;
One doth not Stroke me, nor the other Strike.