Quote#Wisdom
His opinion of verses
Quote byBen Jonson · 1572–1637
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden (1711).
English (original)
His opinion of verses. That he wrote all his first in prose, for so his master Camden had learned him.That verses stood by sense without either colours or accent; which yet other times he denied.
— Ben Jonson
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