• It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

    Ben Jonson: It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
    Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Underwoods, translations, &c. Discoveries. English grammar. Jonsonus viribus”, p.157