...lifeless, yet with life to lie, And without dying, O, how sweet to die ! John Wolcot. CCXLIL TO BEN JONSON. AH Ben ! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet...Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine. My Ben ! O come again, Or send to us Thy wits' great overplus ; But teach us yet Wisely to husband it, Lest...

...with life to lie, And without dying, O, how sweet to die ! Lyra Elcgantiarum. CCLIV. TO BEN JONSON. AH Ben ! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet...those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog; the Triple-Tun; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad ? And yet each verse of thine...

...that in his convivial meetings there was not something higher and better than sensual indulgence : — "Ah, Ben ! Say how, or when Shall we thy guests Meet...verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine."t GEOEOE CHAPMAN, as Anthony Wood tells us, " was a person of most reverend aspect, religious...

...wise.' To eke out the picture of these festive nights, take Herrick's lyric invocation : •Ah Ben I Say how, or when Shall we thy guests Meet at those...verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine '. Such was the alliance of Genius and Canary. No Puritan gloom overshadowed these convivial souls....

...that in his convivial meetings there was not something higher and better than sensual indulgence : — "Ah, Ben ! Say how, or when Shall we thy guests Meet...lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun1 Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad ; And yet each verse of thine Outdid...

...when Shall we thy guests Meet at those lyrick feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the triple Tunne ? Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad ; And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meate, out-did the frolick wine. My Ben ! Or come agen : Or send to us, Thy wits great over-plus ;...

...words, cause it to run in iambics. LAMBIC MEASURE. (a) Of one and two feet (Monometer and Dimeter). Ah Ben! Say how, | or when, Shall we, | thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts Made at | the Sun ? Herrick. If thou | hadst not Been stern | to me, But left | me free ; I had | forgot Myself | and...

...not this stone. That will speake what this can't tell Of his glory. So farewell. As ODE FOR HIM. II Ben ! Say how, or when Shall we thy guests Meet at those lyrick feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the triple Tunne ? Where we such clusters had, As made us...

...much better one in worse company. Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact : — " When we such clusters had As made us nobly wild, not mad...of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine." Such friends make the feast satisfying ; and I notice that it was when things went prosperously, and...

...much better one in worse company. Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact — " When we such clusters had As made us nobly wild, not mad...of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine." Such friends make the feast satisfying ; and I notice that it was when things went prosperously, and...