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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Hierarchy of Angels

By Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641)

MELLIFLUOUS Shakespeare, whose enchanting quill

Commanded mirth or passion, was but Will;

And famous Jonson, though his learned pen

Be dipped in Castaly, is still but Ben.

Fletcher and Webster, of that learned pack

None of the meanest, was but Jack;

Dekker but Tom, nor May, nor Middleton,

And he’s but now Jack Ford that once was John.