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Upon Ben Jonson
Upon Ben Jonson
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Robert Herrick
04/28/2026 14:58h
Here lies Jonson with the rest Of the poets; but the best. Reader, would’st thou more have known? Ask his story, not this stone. That will speak what this can’t tell Of his glory. So farewell.
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