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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
• And though thou hadst Small Latin, and less Greek.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare...
• Ben Jonso
• 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....
• Confound these ancestors.... They've stolen our best ideas! -- Ben Jonso
• He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. -- Ben Jonso