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• Confound these ancestors.... They've stolen our best ideas! -- Ben Jonso
• For a good poet 's made as well as born.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare...
• He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. -- Ben Jonso
• 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
• Sweet swan of Avon! -- 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...
• Courses even with the sun Doth her mighty brother run.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- The Gipsies Metamorphosed...
• It must be done like lightning. -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Every Man in his Humour, Act iv, Sc.
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