Of Life And Death
The
ports
of
death
are
sins;
of
life,
good
deeds:
Through
which
our
merit
leads
us
to
our
meeds.
How
wilful
blind
is
he,
then,
that
would
stray,
And
hath
it
in
his
powers
to
make
his
way!
This
world
death's
region
is,
the
other
life's:
And
here
it
should
be
one
of
our
first
strifes,
So
to
front
death,
as
men
might
judge
us
past
it:
For
good
men
but
see
death,
the
wicked
taste
it.
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.