Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality,Or modest anger of a satiric spirit,That hurts or wounds the body of a state,But the sinister applicationOf the malicious, ignorant, and baseInterpreter; who will distort and strainThe general scope and purpose of an authorTo his particular and private spleen.

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“Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality,Or modest anger of a satiric spirit,That hurts or wounds the body of a state,But the sinister applicationOf the malicious, ignorant, and baseInterpreter; who will distort and strainThe general scope and purpose of an authorTo his particular and private spleen.”

 

Ben Jonson

Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality,Or modest anger of a satiric spirit,That hurts or wounds the body of a state,But the sinister applicationOf the malicious, ignorant, and baseInterpreter; who will distort and strainThe general scope and purpose of an authorTo his particular and private spleen.