...too. 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.' Fleay has suggested that in Troilus and Cressida we may have this 'purge' that Kemp says Shakespeare...

...Jonson too. 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." To this, Burbage, who seems somewhat ashamed of his associate, merely replies, " It's a shrewd fellow,...

...Jonson too. 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 iits credit." Fuller, wlm was a diligent inquirer, and lived near enough the time to be well informed,...

...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,...

...too. 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...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...

...too. Oh, 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."1 Almost the only anecdote that has come down to us of Shakespeare's intercourse with Ben Jonson...

...Jonson too. 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." To this, Burbage, who seems somewhat ashamed of his associate, merely replies, " It's a shrewd fellow,...

...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 that made him bewray his credit. Burbage. — "He is a shrewd fellow, indeed." , Return from Parnassus, 1602 (?). "The sweet witty soul...

...Parnassus—" 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." Or if this last was casually alluded to, without being quoted or named, it was only to prove that,...

...too. O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; he brought up Horace giving the poets a pill ;a but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit.' Burbage answers : — ' It's a shrewd fellow indeed.' For the better understanding of this most interesting...