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...Jonson, which are not so i»ell known but that they must be quoted here : '• Methinks, the little wit 1 had is lost Since I saw you ; for wit is like a rest...best With the best gamesters. What things have we seei Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if...

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...celebrated lines to Ben Jonson : " Methinks the little wit I htul is lost Since I saw you; for wit is like n rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done nt the Mermniil ! heard words that have been So nimble, m,d so fali of subtile Hame, As if...

...which they seem to mean a match, or set ; but this has nothing to do with the phrase in question : For wit is like a rest, Held up at tennis, which men do the hebt Wilh the best gamesten. Ценит. Lttlrr to В. Jo:is., x, SCO. REST, certainly meant also the...

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...that he had our Poet, among others, in his eye, when he wrote those celebrated lines to Ben Jonson : " Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held np at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid...

...the epoch gathered round him ; and of their meetings we have a fit memorial in Beaumont's verse :— Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw...best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid 1 heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if-that...

...look for a rejoinder. " The best tennis players," says Sir Fopling Flutter, "make the best matches." For wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best players. We hear it often said of a great author, or a great actress, that they are very stupid people...