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" O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; he brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill ; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge, that made him bewray his credit. "
Shakespeare's Life and Work - Page 112
by Sir Sidney Lee - 1900 - 231 pages
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Poetaster, Issues 27-28

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...
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Supposes: a comedy written in the Italian tongue by Ariosto, Englished by ...

Thomas Hawkins - 1773 - 400 pages
...is a peftilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving the poets a pill ; J but our fellow Shakefpeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit. Burbage, It's a fhrewd fellow, indeed. I wonder, thefe fcholars ftay fo long ; they appointed to be here prefently,...
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All's well that ends well. Twelfth Night. Winter's tale. Macbeth

William Shakespeare - 1773 - 558 pages
...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." Burbage and Kemp are the fpeakers in this fcene. STEEVEXS. *And on thy blade, and dudgeon, s gouts of blood,...
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An Examination of the Charges Maintained by Messrs. Malone, Chalmers, and ...

Octavius Gilchrist - 1808 - 74 pages
...Jonson is a pestilent fellow; he brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill, but our felr low Shakspeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit." Burbage.—" Its a shrewd fellow indeed."* If this passage, on which so much stress is laid, did indeed prove the...
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The Ancient British Drama ...

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...
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The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory ..., Volume 1

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,...
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The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory ..., Volume 1

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,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 10

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,...
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Publications, Issue 32

Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1846 - 362 pages
...too. O! that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow : he brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill, hut our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit. Burbadge observes, " It is a shrewd fellow, indeed ;" and just afterwards, Studioso and Philomusus...
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The Life of William Shakespeare: Including Many Particulars Respecting the ...

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,...
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