To One that Desired Me Not to Name Him

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To One that Desired Me Not to Name Him by Ben Jonson

LXXVII. ? TO ONE THAT DESIRED ME NOT TO NAME HIM.          Be safe, nor fear thyself so good a fame,  That, any way, my book should speak thy name :  For, if thou shame, rank’d with my friends, to go,  I am more ashamed to have thee thought my foe. 

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