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| Ben Jonson - 1616 - 418 pages
...talk too much of Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down — ay, and Ben Jonson too. O. that Ben Jonson is a pestilent...given him a purge that made him bewray his credit.' Fleay has suggested that in Troilus and Cressida we may have this 'purge' that Kemp says Shakespeare... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 618 pages
...talke too much of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why heres our fellow Shakespeare puts them all downe, I, and Ben Jonson too. O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent...Shakespeare hath given him a purge, that made him beray bis credit. />'.•.<;, Its a shrewd fellow indeed ; I wonder these schollers stay so long, they... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 546 pages
...talk too much of Proserpine and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down : ay, and Ben Jonson too. O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent...given him a purge that made him bewray his credit." To this, Burbage, who seems somewhat ashamed of his associate, merely replies, " It's a shrewd fellow,... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 538 pages
...talk too much of Proserpine and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts the mall down : ay, and Ben Jonson too. O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent...fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made hmi bewray his credit." To this, Burbage, who seems somewhat ashamed of his associate, merely replies,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 348 pages
...him and Shakespeare. "Why here's our fellow Shakespeare put them [the university poets] all down, ay, and Ben Jonson too. O, that Ben Jonson is a pestilent...Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray iits credit." Fuller, wlm was a diligent inquirer, and lived near enough the time to be well informed,... | |
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1848 - 378 pages
...all down ; ay, and Ben Jonson too. O, that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; he brought up Horaee giving the poets a pill, but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his eredit." P. 298. The following eurious aneedote oeeurs in ' Joeabella, or a Cabinet of Coneeits,' 1640,... | |
| John Payne Collier - 1853 - 676 pages
...Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down ; aye, and Ben Jonson too. O ! that Ben Jonson...the one is founded upon Burbadge's performance of Jcronimo in the " Spanish Tragedy," while Kempe gives his pupil instructions as to the mode of playing... | |
| 1860 - 444 pages
...actors, Burbage and Kempe, Kempe says, " Why, here's our fellow Shakespere puts them all lown—aye, and Ben Jonson, too. O! that Ben Jonson is a pestilent...fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made nim betray his credit;" and Burbage replies, " He is a shrewd fellow, * See the question argued in... | |
| Samuel Neil - 1861 - 140 pages
...actors, Burbadge and Eempe, Kempe says, "Why, here's our fellow Shakespere puts them all down—aye, and Ben Jonson, too. O! that Ben Jonson is a pestilent...fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him betray his credit;" and Burbadge replies, " He is a shrewd fellow, indeed." If, however, as we think,... | |
| Stephen Watson Fullom - 1864 - 394 pages
...Beaumont's ' Poetical Epistle to Ben Jonson.' > Fuller's ' Worthies.' all down, ay, and Ben Jonson, too. Oh, that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; he brought...Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit."1 Almost the only anecdote that has come down to us of Shakespeare's intercourse with Ben Jonson... | |
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