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Subject: Re: Ben Jonson born (11-6-1572)
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HenHanna wrote:

> On 6/11/2024 3:42 AM, Ross Clark wrote:
>> Runner-up to Will Shakes in the "England's Got Playwrights" finals.


>               not Marlowe?

>> 
>> Jonson on language (briefly excerpted):
>> 
>> A wise tongue should not be licentious and wandering...
>> 
>> How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak sparingly!
>> 
>> Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
>> 
>> [That's familiar -- who is he quoting there? Or is it him?]


>              isn't that what Romeo says?   --> No...

>                  it's prob  Socrates.



>> 
>> These are from a collection (a "commonplace book", not published in his
>> 
>> lifetime) called:
>> 
>> "Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter, as they have flowed 
>> out of his daily readings, or had their reflux to his peculiar notion
>> of
>> 
>> the times"


> why is it entitled  Timber???

 ..."as we are commonly used to call the infinite mixed
multitude of growing trees a wood, so the ancients gave
the name of Sylvæ—Timber Trees—to books of theirs in
which small works of various and diverse matter were
promiscuously brought together.”

<https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5134/5134-h/5134-h.htm>