To the special fountain of manners : the Court.

Though art a bountiful and brave spring and wateriest all the noble plants of this island. In you the whole kingdom dressed itself and is ambitious to use you as her glass. Beware, then, though render men's figures truly and teach them no less to hate their deformities, than to love their forms. For, to grace, there should come reverence. And no man can call that lovely, which is not also venerable. It is not powdering, perfuming and every day smelling of the tailor, that converted to a beautiful object. But a mind, shining through any suit, which needs no false light, either of riches or honours, to help it. Such shal l thou gh find some here, even in the reign of Cynthia ( a Crites and an Arete ). Now, under the Phoebus, it will be the province to make more; except though desires to have the source mix with the spring of self-love and so wil l draw upon you as welcome a discovery of th e days, as was then made of her nights.

Your servant, but not slave,

Ben Jonson.