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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden

Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

Song before the Entry of the Masquers (from The Fortunate Isles)

SPRING all the graces of the age,

And all the loves of time;

Bring all the pleasures of the stage,

And relishes of rhyme;

Add all the softnesses of courts,

The looks, the laughters and the sports;

And mingle all their sweets and salts,

That none may say the triumph halts.