Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Single k.o.

LXXV On Lip the Teacher

I cannot think there's that antipathy
'twixt puritans, and players, as some cry;
Though Lip, at Paul's, ran from his text away,
T'inveigh 'gainst players: what did he then but play?

—Ben Jonson, Epigrams (1616)

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