...get a wan pale face, Leave me ! for something has come into my heart That must be said or sung, far and aloof. Safe from the wolf's black jaw and the dull ass's hoof. It will be a sad day for our race when we have dropped the ass's hoof; the day of universal degeneracy...

...recognize in either those ' fresh strains ' with which he meant to ' strike the ear of time '—the ' something come into my thought, that must, and shall be sung, high, and aloof. The fact that Jonson did not print ' Richard Crookback ', any more than the earlier 'tregedies', among...

...our dainty age Cannot endure reproof, Make not thyself a page To that strumpet the stage, But sing high and aloof, Safe from the wolf's black jaw and the dull ass's hoof. There is a relaxed, personal note in Jonson's longer verse epistles which, however, never threatens...

...our dainty age Cannot endure reproof, Make not thyself a page, To that strumpet the stage, But sing high and aloof, Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull asses hoof.28 And in due course poets were able to use sound metaphorically in all kinds of freer ways....

...write in future only for an audience of one, "so he judicious be." "Leave me," he says: . . . There's something come into my thought, That must, and shall be sung, high, and aloofe, Safe from the wolves black jaw, and the dull asses hoofe (4:324) These lines project a move...

...said it. Ben Jonson perhaps put it as well as any. You will not, without music, have that within you That must and shall be sung, high and aloof. Safe from the wolfs black jaw and the dull ass's hoof. The State of American Writing It appears to me that your first...

...power of satire and some pokes at the poetasters of the present, concludes thus: Leave me. There's something come into my thought, That must, and shall be sung, high and aloofe, Safe from the wolves black jaw, and the dull asses hoofe. (237-39) We must take this something...

...had intended to announce that his next project would be a tragedy in the classical manner: There's something come into my thought That must and shall be sung high and aloof, Safe from the wolfs black jaw and the dull ass's hoof. (lines 237-9) Ironically that work, Sejanus, encountered its...

...'Apologetical Dialogue' Jonson appended to the play, the 'Author' - Jonson himself - resolves to sing 'high and aloof, / Safe from the wolf's black jaw and the dull ass's hoof (4.324). The Forest, the collection of poems that follows the Epigrams in the 1616 folio, shows Jonson...

...more kind aspect'. During the next two years, when he apparently withdrew from company, he pursued 'something come into my thought,/ That must, and shall be sung, high and aloof .1 2 Jonson was deeply hurt by the failure of Sejanus his Fall on the stage, as he would be later by...