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• He was not of an age, but for all time. -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare
• Marlowe's mighty line. -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare
• For a good poet 's made as well as born.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare...
• Sweet swan of Avon! -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare
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• Soul of the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, My Shakespeare, rise!
  I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room....
• In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Underwoods....
• O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act ii, Sc. 2...
• O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act iv, Sc. 2...