The New Inn Or the Light Heart Author:Ben Jonson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: H. Holt Subjects: Drama / General Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Drama Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the Gen... more »eral Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: They are all vnfeafon'd without it. The waiting maids, Or the concomitants of it, are his patience, His magnanimity, his confidence, His conftancy, fecurity, and quiet; 135 He can affure himfelfe againft all rumour! Defpaires of nothing! laughs at contumelies ! As knowing himfelfe, aduanced in a height Where iniury cannot reach him, nor afpersion Touch him with foyle ! Lad. Moft manly vtterd all! Mo As if Achilles had the chaire in valour, And Hercules were but a Lecturer ! Who would not hang vpon thofe lips for euer! That ftrike fuch mufique ? I could run on them; But modefty is fuch a fchoole miftreffe, Ms To keepe our fexe in awe. Pru. Or you can faine! my Subtill and diffembling Lady miftreffe. Lad. I feare fhe meanes it, Pru, in too good earned! Lov. The purpofe of an iniury 'tis to vexe And trouble me: now, nothing' can doe that, 50 To him that's valiant. He that is affected With the leaft iniury, is leffe then it. It is but reafonable, to conclude That fhould be ftronger, ftill, which hurts, then that Which is hurt. Now no wickedneffe is ftronger, 155 Then what oppofeth it: Not Fortunes felfe, When fhe encounters vertue, but comes off Both lame, and leffe! why fhould a wife man then, Confeffe himfelfe the weaker, by the feeling Of a fooles wrong? There may an iniury 'o Be meant me, I may choofe, if / will take it But we are, now, come to that delicacie, 139 soil W, G utter'd 1692 f. 142 vpon] up 1716 144 MUtriss 1692, 1716 145 feign 1716 f. 14...« less