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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

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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
Parting
Cups
Guilty
Drinking
Mets
Shall
Make
Men
Innocently

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