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• 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
• 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....
• And though thou hadst Small Latin, and less Greek.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare...
• Ben Jonso
• He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. -- Ben Jonso
• That old bald cheater, Time. -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- The Poetaster, Act i, Sc. 1
• Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben (1673-1637)