Excerpt from Literary Leaves, or Prose and Verse, Vol. 2 of 2: Chiefly Written in India

It was Ben Jonson who first made use of this now stale comparison He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses into sonnets, which he said was like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. But Ben Jonson's taste was not infallible. According to Urum mond's report of his conversations Spenser's stanzas pleased him not, nor his mutter, while, for some things, he esteemed home the first post in the uorld.

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