...Shakespeare. Marston, Machin, and Heywood are all a few years later. (See pp. 38 and 54-6.) The passage, "O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; he brought up Horace, (jiving the poets a pill ;" alludes to Jonson's Poetaster, actv, sc. I (1601). (See our Supplementary...

...Proserpine and Jupiter" (possibly a hit at the mythological plays of Lyly and the Masques of Jon son). brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill, but our fellow, Shakespeare, has,given him a purge that made him bewray his credit." An old letter of Mrs. Joan Alleyn to her husband,...

...Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare put s them all down: Ay, and B. Jonson too. O, that B. Jonson is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace...poets a pill ; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given htm a purge that made him bewray his eredit. ' Das zeigt klar den Sachverhalt : Jonson fiel zuerst...

...our fellow Shakcfpeare puts them all down ; ay, and Ben Jonfon too. O, that Ben Jonfon is a peftilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving the poets a pill; but our fellow Shakefpeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit." And in act i., sc. 2 : [censure...

...extracts from Athmaum in Part ii. Kempe. — " Why here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down, ay, and Ben Jonson too. O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; lie brought up Horace giving the poets a pill ; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge...

...Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's one fellow, Shakespeare, puts them all down; ay, and Ben Jonson too. 0, that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill J) ; but one fellow Shakespeare has given him a purge that made him bewray his credit2). For beauty,...

...Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's one fellow, Shakespeare, puts them all down; ay, and Ben Jonson too. 0, that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill *) ; but one fellow Shakespeare has given him a purge that made him bewray his credit*). For beauty, wit High...

...our fellow Shakefpeare puts them all downe, I and Ben Jonfon too. O that Ben Jonfon is a peftilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving the Poets a pill, but our fellow Shakefpeare hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit : Burl-age. Its a (hrewd fellow indeed...

...Fair allusions were ignored. So, too, was the well-known passage in The Return from Parnassus — " O, that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow, he brought...up Horace giving the poets a pill : but our fellow Sfuihespeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit." Or if this last was casually...

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