Ben Jonson


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LXXVII. — TO ONE THAT DESIRED ME NOT TO NAME HIM.  

Be safe, nor fear thyself so good a fame,
That, any way, my book should speak thy name :
For, if thou shame, rank’d with my friends, to go,
I am more ashamed to have thee thought my foe.

 
Source:
Jonson, Ben.  The Works of Ben Jonson.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1853. 791.
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