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Poem by Ben Jonson


To Doctor Empiric


When men a dangerous disease did 'scape,
Of old, they gave a cock to Aesculape.
Let me give two, that doubly am got free
From my disease's danger, and from thee.



Ben Jonson


Ben Jonson's other poems:
  1. Living By
  2. On Poet-Ape
  3. Natural Progress
  4. Begging Another


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