Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden
Ben Jonson (15721637)Song before the Entry of the Masquers (from The Fortunate Isles)
[From The Fortunate Isles and their Union, 1625.]
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And all the loves of time;
Bring all the pleasures of the stage,
And relishes of rhyme;
Add all the softnesses of courts,
The looks, the laughters and the sports;
And mingle all their sweets and salts,
That none may say the triumph halts.