Timber - 1892 Author:Ben Jonson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: an entry into a fair room, but shut it again presently. I spake to him of garlic, he answered asparagus; consulted him of marriage, he tells me of hanging, as if... more » they went by one and the same destiny. 5 Bellum scribentium. — What a sight it is to see writers committed together by the ears for ceremonies, syllables, points, colons, commas, hyphens, and the like, fighting as for their fires and their altars; and angry that none are frighted at their noises and loud brayings under their 10 asses' skins. There is hope of getting a fortune without digging in these quarries. Sed meliore in omne ingenio animoque quam fortuna sum usus. Pingue solum lassat; sed juvat ipse labor. Differentia inter doctos et sciolos. — Wits made out JS their several expeditions then for the discovery of truth, to find out great and profitable knowledges; had their several instruments for the disquisition of arts. Now there are certain scioli or smatterers that are busy in the skirts and outsides of learning, and have scarce anything 20 of solid literature to commend them. They may have some edging or trimming of a scholar, a welt or so ; but it is no more. Impostorum fucus. — Imposture is a specious thing, yet never worse than when it feigns to be best, and to 25 none discovered sooner than the simplest. For truth and goodness are plain and open; but imposture is ever ashamed of the light. Icuncularum motio. — A puppet-play must be shadowed and seen in the dark; for draw the curtain, et sor- 3o det gesticulatio. Principes et administri. — There is a great difference in the understanding of some princes, as in the quality of their ministers about them. Some would dress their masters in gold, pearl, and all true jewels of majesty;others furnish them with feathers, bells, and ri...« less