Every Man In His Humour

By: Jonson, Ben

Book Excerpt: ells us that he took nodegree, but was later "Master of Arts in both the universities, bytheir favour, not his study." When a mere youth Jonson enlisted asa soldier, trailing his pike in Flanders in the protracted wars ofWilliam the Silent against the Spanish. Jonson was a large andraw-boned lad; he became by his own account in time exceedinglybulky. In chat with his friend William Drummond of Hawthornden, Jonson told how "in his service in the Low Countries he had, in theface of both the camps, killed an enemy, and taken opima spoliafrom him;" and how "since his coming to England, being appealed tothe fields, he had killed his adversary which had hurt him in thearm and whose sword was ten inches longer than his." Jonson'sreach may have made up for the lack of his sword; certainly hisprowess lost nothing in the telling. Obviously Jonson was brave, combative, and not averse to talking of himself and his doings.In 1592, Jonson returned from abroad penniless. Soon after hemarried, almost aRead Mo

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798713632731
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"