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Poem by Ben Jonson


On the New Hot-House


Where lately harbor'd many a famous whore,
A purging bill, now fix'd upon the door,
Tells you it is a hot-house ; so it may,
And still be a whore-house: they're synonyma.



Ben Jonson


Ben Jonson's other poems:
  1. To King James
  2. To All, to Whom I Write
  3. On the Union
  4. To Brainhardy
  5. To My Bookseller


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