...OF MY BELOVED MASTER, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame...praise too much. 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage. But those ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise ; For silliest ignorance on these may light,...

...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...

...commendations of Shakspeare (his friend but also his rival) when in the abovementioned eulogy he says : ' I confess thy writings to be such as neither man nor...praise too much. 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage ;' and again when he calls him the ' soul of the age ! the applause ! the delight and wonder of our...

...volume of 1623 contains these lines by his cotemporary, Ben Jonson : " To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame...such As neither Man nor Muse can praise too much." Had there been the least suspicion of the kind, would Jonson, who died 1637, have allowed the above...

...volume of 1623 contains these lines by his cotemporary, Ben Jonson : " To draw no enyy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; White I confess thy writings to be such As neither Man nor Muse can praise too much." Had there been...

...highly appreciative and characteristic. It appeared in the first folio of 1623:— " To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William. Shakspeare,...such, As neither man nor muse can praise too much ; "Pis true and all men's suffrage ; but these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise: For...

...cotemporary, Ben Jonson : " To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy hook and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such As neither Man nor Muse can praise too much." Had there been the least suspicion of the kind, would Jonson, who died 1637, have allowed the above...

...and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw his dart at thee. TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER, WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. To draw...'Tis true, and all men's suffrage. But these ways [praise ; Were not the paths I meant unto thy For silliest ignorance on these would light, Which, when...

...tradition. TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOA7ED MASTER, WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. To draw uo envy, Shakspeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to...such As neither man nor muse can praise too much. • **•<*• I, therefore, will begin : Soul of the age ! The applause, delight, aud wonder of our...

...BELOVED, THE AUTHOR, MR. И7лLiA.if SHAKESPEARE, AXD WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. To draw no envy (Shakespeare) siu-h, As neither man, nor muse, can praise too much ; 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage ; but these...