• He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short.

  Source: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden

  Ben Jonson
  British Dramatist, Poet 1573-1637
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. redacting
2. sonnets
3. tyrant
4. racked
5. others

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He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. by : Ben Jonson

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