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Triaged the library, got rid of circa 1200 books, but twill be months before I can get the very large remainder in working order. Poor me. Which is why I can't check further. You may very well be right that this is his most extreme case. Do the young still read Jonson? He was enormously important in my own formation. Best, Mark At 05:29 PM 3/26/2010, you wrote: >>I can't remember anything specific (tho I do remember there are >>similar moments), and can't locate my Jonson for the nonce, but I'd >>bet there's stuff in the Fleet Ditch. > >Hey, you and the Birk both, Mark. > >But I still want *lines quoted*, that intersect with syntax to the >degree that, "if I but see / Twice", "but am more / Angry", and >"sleepe / May, with some right" all do (and three times in the space >of six lines, at that). > > Robin > >> So he that flaggeth much, becomes to me >> A _Choerilus_, in whom if I but see >> Twice, or thrice good, I wonder: but am more >> Angry. Sometimes, I heare good _Homer_ snore. >> But, I confesse, that, in a long worke, sleepe >> May, with some right, upon an Author creepe. > >Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University >of California Press). >http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland > >"Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book >of Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so >effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the United >States and also created a superb collection of foreign poems in >English. There is nothing else like it." John Palattella in The >Nation