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El poeta preferido del reverendo Proctor y cuyos versos fáciles y llanos más a menudo recitaba por ser «como manzanas de oro con dibujos de plata» era George Wither, un puritano, el mismo al que el viejo Ben Jonson había negado el título de poeta, llamándole «un saltabancos de ingenio y desdén de todas las musas», porque escribía únicamente para satisfacer la chusma.
The poet whom the Reverend Proctor loved best and from whose facile, flat verse he quoted oftenest, as “very apples of gold with pictures of silver,” was Mr. George Wither, a Puritan—he to whom old Ben Jonson had denied the title of poet, naming him “a mountebank of wit and scorn of all the Muses,” because he wrote merely to suit the capacity of the rabble. Mr.
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