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Cleanse the foul body of th’ infected world,
If they will patiently receive my medicine. (67)
Though engaged in this cathartic enterprise, Shakespeare
felt the absence of role bitterly. In his Sonnet cx, we read:
Alas, ’tis true I have gone here and there
And made myself a motley to the view,
Gor’d mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, . . .
He was little attracted into the print mode and made no
effort to publish, since the circulation of his work in print form
would have conferred no dignity on him. It was quite otherwise
for the writer in divinity. When Ben Jonson published his plays
as the Works of Ben Jonson in 1616, there was much derisive
comment.