From "Conversations with Drummond" (William Drummond, 1619)

In Ben Jonson, edited by C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1925)


He [Jonson] cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like the tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long, cut short....