Topic > Jonson's On My First Son - 887

He accepts death and expresses his final thoughts in two forms such as blessing and vow. He blesses his son saying: Rest in sweet peace, and asks, "here lies Ben Jonson, his best piece of poetry" (Lines 10,11). By poetry I think he means that his son was his favorite son. Finally, he says that he will never love anything as much as he loved his son when he says: For whose sake henceforth all his vows will be such that what he loves can never please him too much (Lines