Poems certainly or almost certainly Cleveland's
but not included in 1653 or 1677.
An Elegy on Ben Jonson.
Who first reformed our stage with justest laws,
And was the first best judge in his own cause;
Who, when his actors trembled for applause,
Could (with a noble confidence) prefer
His own, by right, to a whole theatre;
From principles which he knew could not err:
Who to his fable did his persons fit,
With all the properties of art and wit,