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Ben Jonson - In The Person Of Womankind
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A SONG APOLOGETIC


Men, if you love us, play no more
   The fools or tyrants with your friends,
To make us still sing o`er and o`er
   Our own false praises, for your ends:
      We have both wits and fancies too,
      And, if we must, let`s sing of you.

Nor do we doubt but that we can,
   If we would search with care and pain,
Find some one good in some one man;
   So going thorough all your strain,
      We shall, at last, of parcels make
      One good enough for a song`s sake.

And as a cunning painter takes,
   In any curious piece you see,
More pleasure while the thing he makes,
   Than when `tis made--why so will we.
      And having pleased our art, we`ll try
      To make a new, and hang that by.
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