...— To draw no envy (Shakspere) on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy booke and fame : While I confesse thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much. Soule of the age ! The applause! delight and wonder of our stage, My Shakspere, rise ! I will not lodge...

...Shakespeare's zu 1) In den Versen, mit denen Ben Jonson die Folio-Ausgabe Shakespeare's 1623 begleitete. To the Memory of my beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare: and what he has left us. I therefore will begin. Soule of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our Stage!...

...COMMENDATORY VERSES PREFIXED TO THE FOLIO OF 1623. To the memory of my beloved, the author, Master William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us. To...thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy -(ratings to be such As neither man nor Muse can praise too much : 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage...

...MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MR. WILLIAM SHAKSPERE AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. " To draw no envy, Shakspere, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame...such As neither man nor muse can praise too much. Thou art a monument, without a tomb ; And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits...

...publication, we may judge from some of the verses prefixed to the edition. Ben Jonson's celebrated poem, follows the preface, and it concludes with these " Shine forth, thcu star of poets, and with rage,...

...however imperfectly, from some of the verses prefixed to the edition. Ben Jonson's celebrated poem, ' To the Memory of my beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare : and what he hath left us,' follows the preface, and it concludes with these lines : — " Shine forth, thou star of poets, and...

...of authorship, but the forty couplets which follow the preface to the Folio 1623, addressed by Ben " To the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us." These verses are a precious testimony, both to the authorship of the plays and to Ben's friendly estimate...

...the subject To the Memory of my belored, the Author, Mr. WILLIAM SUAKBBPEAKE, and ichal lie hath Ifjl us. To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book anil fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor Muse can praise too much •...

...remains but the single barrier of the Jonsonian testimony, contained in the copy of verses entitled "To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us," written by Mr. Ben Jonson and prefixed to the famous folio of 1623. If this testimony should ever be...

...public were unbounded. His most illustrious fellow-dramatist, Ben Jonson, uses no measured terms : While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man, nor Muse, can praise too much ! and again he exclaims : He was not for an age, but for all time ! There is one thing which would...