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...contributed a poem 'to the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William Shakespeare', and later wrote, 'I loved the man and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.' He was gentle Shakespeare, sweet Shakespeare, good Will, friendly Shakespeare - that, at least, seems to have...

...an open and free nature: had an excellent Phantsie; brave notions, and gentle expressions," and then "I loved the man and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any." Such facts as these are more or less all that is known of the life of this man who left such an extraordinary...

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...(whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand . . . He was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature: had an excellent fancy; brave notions, and gentle expressions: wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometime it...

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...Ben Jonson, who might have been expected to dislike his brilliant rival. Shakespeare, he declared, 'was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature: had an excellent Fancy, brave notions and gentle expressions: wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it...

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...went on to pay tribute to Shakespeare in words that seem all the more genuine for not being effusive. 'I loved the man, and do honour his memory - on this side idolatry - as much as any.' Jonson went on to say, 'He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent fantasy,...

...ideas and words never betrayed him into excess. One remembers what Ben Jonson said of Shakespeare : ' He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature, had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions ; wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes...