However, the same source – Proper Actual Historian Catharine Arnold (@londondarkside.bsky.social) – says Jonson had two great advantages: youth, and he wasn’t shitfaced. “Spenser had been drinking all day”, and Jonson...

In the mid-flow were rows of mice from Watercress lane itself carrying their willow poles decked with flowers –

languid garden roses and delicate briar, wild mustard and oxeye daisies, milkwort as blue as the sky, red and yellow Tom Thumb's from high on the lark-haunted barrows, and the very last of the May blossom and the very first of the elder.