"Chronologer" Quotes from Famous Books
... welcomed King James on his way to London, in the masques at court, and in the pastoral drama. As to Jonson's personal ambitions with respect to these two men, it is notable that he became, not pageant-poet, but chronologer to the City of London; and that, on the accession of the new king, he came soon to triumph over Daniel as the accepted ... — Epicoene - Or, The Silent Woman • Ben Jonson |