4umi Ben Jonson : On my first son

On my first son

From: Epigrams, 1616.
In memory of Johnson's son who died at the age of seven during an outbreak of the plague in 1603.
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 Ben Jonson The Forest To the memory of my beloved Master William Shakspeare Hymn to Cynthia On Lucy, Countess of Bedford On my first son On Poet-Ape Hymn to the belly A hymn to God the Father How he saw her The praises of a country-life The hour-glass A fit of rhyme against rhyme Aeglamour's soliloquy