To My Dear Friend M. Ben Jonson, On His Fox Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFAAGGHHIIJJ KLMMNN| If it might stand with justice to allow | A |
| The swift conversion of all follies now | A |
| Such is my mercy that I could admit | B |
| All sorts should equally approve the wit | B |
| Of this thy even work whose growing fame | C |
| Shall raise thee high and thou it with thy name | C |
| And did not manners and my love command | D |
| Me to forbear to make those understand | D |
| Whom thou perhaps hast in thy wiser doom | E |
| Long since firmly resolved shall never come | F |
| To know more than they do I would have shewn | A |
| To all the world the art which thou alone | A |
| Hast taught our tongue the rules of time of place | G |
| And other rites delivered with the grace | G |
| Of comic style which only is far more | H |
| Than any English stage hath known before | H |
| But since our subtle gallants think it good | I |
| To like of nought that may be understood | I |
| Lest they should he disproved or have at best | J |
| Stomachs so raw that nothing can digest | J |
| But what's obscene or barks let us desire | K |
| They may continue simply to admire | L |
| Fine clothes and strange words and may live in age | M |
| To see themselves ill brought upon the stage | M |
| And like it whilst thy bold and knowing muse | N |
| Contemns all praise but such as thou wouldst choose | N |
Francis Beaumont
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