WorkBenjamin 'Ben' Jonson

“On Lucy, Countess of Bedford”

"On Lucy, Countess of Bedford" (c. 1612–1616, published in Works, 1616)

Benjamin 'Ben' Jonson (1572–1637) · c. 1612–1616, published in Works, 1616

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Documented 1845

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“So in the noble passage of Ben Jonson / "I meant the day-star should not brighter ride, / Nor shed like influence from its lucent seat / I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet, / Free from that solemn vice of greatness, pride; / I meant each softest virtue there should meet, / Fit in that softer bosom to abide, / Only a learned and a manly soul, / I purposed her, that should with even powers, / The rock, the spindle, and the shears control / Of destiny, and spin her own free hours.”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.