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" ... on so mean, yet not altogether to be despised, an object. Here is a powder concealed in this paper, of which, if I should speak to the worth, nine thousand volumes were but as one page, that page as a line, that line as a word; so short is this pilgrimage... "
The Works of Ben Jonson: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a ... - Page 214
by Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875
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Five Plays

Ben Jonson - 1999 - 630 pages
...altogether to be despised) an object. Here is a powder, concealed in this paper, of which, if I 210 should speak to the worth, nine thousand volumes were...Would I reflect on the price ? Why, the whole world were but as an empire, that empire as a province, that province as a bank, that bank as a 215 private...
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Volpone

Ben Jonson - 1999 - 220 pages
...altogether to be despised) an object. Here is a powder concealed in this paper, of which, if I should 235 speak to the worth, nine thousand volumes were but...Would I reflect on the price, why, the whole world were but as an empire, that empire as a 240 province, that province as a bank, that bank as a private...
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Volpone, Or the Fox

Ben Jonson - 1999 - 378 pages
...so mean (yet not altogether to be despised) an object. Here is a powder concealed in this paper of which, if I should speak to the worth, nine thousand volumes were but as one page, that 235 page as a line, that line as a word; so short is this pilgrimage of man (which some call life)...
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