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Chapter 20 AN INVECTIVE WRITTEN BY MR. GEORGE CHAPMAN

AGAINST MR. BEN JONSON.

This satire was discovered in a "Common-place Book" belonging to Chapman, preserved among the Ashmole MSS. in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Great, learned, witty Ben, be pleased to light

The world with that three-forked fire; nor fright

All us, thy sublearned, with luciferous boast

That thou art most great, mo

            
            

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