"Many were the wit-combats," he says, "betwixt Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great gallion and an English Man of War: Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow in his performances.
And so we get a picture of Ben lording it in taverns.
It'll be a good while afore my head's full o' th' Methodies," said
Ben.
But you are not a good enough sailor to beat
Ben Ali, the Barbary Dragon.
They had waited perhaps half an hour when the messenger returned with Kadour
ben Saden.
"No -- no -- I reckon it wouldn't hardly do,
Ben. You see, Aunt Polly's awful particular about this fence -- right here on the street, you know -- but if it was the back fence I wouldn't mind and SHE wouldn't.
Quivering, not with fear but with rage,
Ben Bolt perforce endured the buckling around his throat of a thick, broad collar of leather to which was attached a very stout and a very long trailing rope.
"
Ben Weatherstaff," called out Mary, finding her breath.
"Oh--it means--you must think what you mean," said
Ben, rather peevishly.
'Oh,
Ben and I have hit upon a dozen such,' replied Bob Sawyer, with great glee.
"And when
Ben Gunn is wanted, you know where to find him, Jim.
The Sheik jerked his thumb toward Ali
ben Kadin and addressed Meriem.
