Love-All
The
decorously
informative
church
Guide
to
Sex
suggested
that
any
urge
could
well
be
controlled
by
playing
tennis:
and
the
game
provided
also
"many
harmless
opportunities
for
healthy
social
intercourse
between
the
sexes."
For
weeks
the
drawings
in
the
Guide
misled
me
as
to
what
went
where,
but
nonetheless
I
booked
the
public
courts
and
learnt
the
game
with
other
curious
youths
of
my
age:
and
later
joined
a
club,
to
lose
six
one,
six
love,
in
the
first
round
of
the
Open.
But
the
only
girl
I
ever
met
had
her
"energies
channelled"
far
too
bloody
"healthily",
and
very
quickly
let
me
know
that
love
was
merely
another
means
of
saying
nil.
It
was
not
as
though
I
became
any
good
at
tennis;
either.
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson (born June 11?, 1572, London, England—died August 6, 1637, London) English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic. He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I. Among his major plays are the comedies Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone (1605), Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman (1609), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614). Ben Jonson died in Westminster on August 8, 1637. A tremendous crowd of mourners attended his burial at Westminster Abbey. He is regarded as one of the major dramatists and poets of the seventeenth century.