• His opinion of verses. That he wrote all his first in prose, for so his master Camden had learned him. That verses stood by sense without either colours or accent; which yet other times he denied.

  Source: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden

  Ben Jonson
  British Dramatist, Poet 1573-1637
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1. opinion
2. learned
3. without
4. colours
5. either
6. accent

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His opinion of verses. That he wrote all his first in prose, for so his master Camden had learned him. That verses stood by sense without either colours or accent; which yet other times he denied. by : Ben Jonson

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