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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

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Ben Jonson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1572
Born: June 21
Died: 1637
Died: August 6
Actor
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Benjamin Jonson
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.
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To the old, long life and treasure To the young, all health and pleasure.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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