To Mr Ben Jonson in His Journey, by Mr Craven
When wit, and learning are so hardly set
That from their needful means they must be barred,
Unless by going hard they maintenance get,
Well may Ben Jonson say the world goes hard.
This was Mr Ben Jonson's Answer of the Sudden
Ill may Ben Jonson slander so his feet,
For when the profit with the pain doth meet,
Although the gait were hard, the gain is sweet.
That from their needful means they must be barred,
Unless by going hard they maintenance get,
Well may Ben Jonson say the world goes hard.
This was Mr Ben Jonson's Answer of the Sudden
Ill may Ben Jonson slander so his feet,
For when the profit with the pain doth meet,
Although the gait were hard, the gain is sweet.
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