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• He was not of an age, but for all time. -- 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...
• Marlowe's mighty line. -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare
• Sweet swan of Avon! -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare
• Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee!
  and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act iii, Sc....
• And though thou hadst Small Latin, and less Greek.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare...
• I have peppered two of them: two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits.
  I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face...
• Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,-- Therefore on him no speech!
  And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse....
• Remember thee Ay, thou poor ghost while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.
  Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there....