A review by jonfaith
Alchemist, The by Ben Jonson

2.0

A wench is a rare bait, with which a man
No sooner's taken, but he straight firks mad.


Funny that firk, it means many things: to both expel and to fuck as well as become or carry. I felt only the fervor of the former in my experience with brother Ben Jonson. Anthony Vacca has noted here on GR that Jonson was the Marty Amis of the Elizabethan underbelly. That might just be correct. It didn't help my flailing. Such wasn't pretty or becoming.