[
  {
    "title": "A Farewell to the World",
    "author": "Ben Jonson",
    "lines": [
      "FALSE world, good night! since thou hast brought",
      "   That hour upon my morn of age;",
      "Henceforth I quit thee from my thought,",
      "   My part is ended on thy stage.",
      "",
      "Yes, threaten, do. Alas! I fear",
      "   As little as I hope from thee:",
      "I know thou canst not show nor bear",
      "   More hatred than thou hast to me.",
      "",
      "My tender, first, and simple years",
      "   Thou didst abuse and then betray;",
      "Since stir'd'st up jealousies and fears,",
      "   When all the causes were away.",
      "",
      "Then in a soil hast planted me",
      "   Where breathe the basest of thy fools;",
      "Where envious arts professed be,",
      "   And pride and ignorance the schools;",
      "",
      "Where nothing is examined, weigh'd,",
      "   But as 'tis rumour'd, so believed;",
      "Where every freedom is betray'd,",
      "   And every goodness tax'd or grieved.",
      "",
      "But what we're born for, we must bear:",
      "   Our frail condition it is such",
      "That what to all may happen here,",
      "   If 't chance to me, I must not grutch.",
      "",
      "Else I my state should much mistake",
      "   To harbour a divided thought",
      "From all my kind--that, for my sake,",
      "   There should a miracle be wrought.",
      "",
      "No, I do know that I was born",
      "   To age, misfortune, sickness, grief:",
      "But I will bear these with that scorn",
      "   As shall not need thy false relief.",
      "",
      "Nor for my peace will I go far,",
      "   As wanderers do, that still do roam;",
      "But make my strengths, such as they are,",
      "   Here in my bosom, and at home."
    ],
    "linecount": "36"
  }
]