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Posted: Feb. 13 2005, 20:23
I was looking at an archive of Ben Jonson's poetry at

http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Jonson/index.htm

I ran across this gem:

Gut eats all day and lechers all the night;
So all his meat he tasteth over twice;
And striving so to double his delight,
He makes himself a thoroughfare of vice.
Thus in his belly can he change a sin:
Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.

I just don't think the final part of Incantations would have been the same if this had been used instead of "Queen and Huntress" !

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"In the land of the Dacotahs,
Where the Falls of Minnehaha
Flash and gleam among the oak-trees,
Laugh and leap into the valley."
- Song of Hiawatha
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Posted: Feb. 14 2005, 15:51
All of the so-called 'major' poets - including Shakespeare - wrote their good quota of crazy stuff. Jonson, being a court poet (i.e. one whose main task was to entertain a royal court), of course wrote plenty of funny stuff. IIRC he wrote "Volpone", a comedy which is still funny today. :)

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