Song: To Sicknesse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBCCBBDDEEFFGGHH BBIJKKBBLLMMNNBBOOPP QQRSTTTT| Why Disease dost thou molest | A |
| Ladies and of them the best | A |
| Do not men ynow of rites | B |
| To thy altars by their nights | B |
| Spent in surfets and their dayes | B |
| And nights too in worser wayes | B |
| Take heed Sicknesse what you do | C |
| I shall feare you'll surfet too | C |
| Live not we as all thy stals | B |
| Spittles pest house hospitals | B |
| Scarce will take our present store | D |
| And this age will build no more | D |
| 'Pray thee feed contented then | E |
| Sicknesse only on us men | E |
| Or if needs thy lust will taste | F |
| Woman kind devoure the waste | F |
| Livers round about the town | G |
| But forgive me with thy crown | G |
| They maintaine the truest trade | H |
| And have more diseases made | H |
| What should yet thy pallat please | B |
| Daintinesse and softer ease | B |
| Sleeked lims and finest blood | I |
| If thy leannesse love such food | J |
| There are those that for thy sake | K |
| Do enough and who would take | K |
| Any paines yea think it price | B |
| To become thy sacrifice | B |
| That distill their husbands land | L |
| In decoctions and are mann'd | L |
| With ten Emp'ricks in their chamber | M |
| Lying for the spirit of amber | M |
| That for the oyle of Talck dare spend | N |
| More than citizens dare lend | N |
| Them and all their officers | B |
| That to make all pleasure theirs | B |
| Will by coach and water go | O |
| Every stew in towne to know | O |
| Date entayle their loves on any | P |
| Bald or blind or nere so many | P |
| And for thee at common game | Q |
| Play away health wealth and fame | Q |
| These disease will thee deserve | R |
| And will long ere thou should'st starve | S |
| On their bed most prostitute | T |
| Move it as their humblest sute | T |
| In thy justice to molest | T |
| None but them and leave the rest | T |
Ben Jonson
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