Ben Jonson


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VI. — TO ALCHEMISTS.  

If all you boast of your great art be true ;
Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

    Ostade. Alchemist. 1661. [detail]
    Adriaen Jansz van Ostade.
    Alchemist. 1661. [detail]



 

Source:
Jonson, Ben.  The Works of Ben Jonson.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1853. 785.


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