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  • There is no bounty to be showed to such
    As have real goodness: Bounty is
    A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act
    Can take effect on them that have no power
    Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

    Ben Jonson, Margaret Jane Kidnie (2000). “Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment: Sejanus His Fall ; The Devil is an Ass ; The New Inn, Or, The Light Heart”, p.59, Oxford : Oxford University Press