...Shakespeare is here ignored ; the real man is named. In another passage Shakespeare is named. " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to...his writing, whatsoever he penned he never blotted a line. My answer had been, would he had blotted a thousand; which they thought a malevolent speech....

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...passages of the works of Shakespeare and other classics. Let us recall Ben Jonson's words : " I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoe'er he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath beene, would he had blotted a thousand;...

...any one that trafiqu'd with the stage. — DRAYTON, MICHAEL, 1627, Of Poets and Poesie. I remember, the Players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, (whatsoever he penn'd) hee never blotted out line. My answer hath beene, would he had blotted a thousand. Which they...

...passages of the works of Shakespeare and other classics. Let us recall Ben Jonson's words : " I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoe'er he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath beene, would he had blotted a thousand...

...or Discoveries. First published in 1641. Jonson died in 1637. De Shakespeare nostrat. — I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penn'd, hee never blotted out a line. My answer hath beene, 'Would he had blotted a thousand,' —...

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...wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers." ' " Players," Ben Jonson wrote thereupon, " have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penn'd, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath beene, ' Would he had blotted a thousand ! ' which...

...See Milton's lines on Shakspere, p. 341. "I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, Would be had blotted a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speech....

...any one that trafiqu'd with the stage. — DRAYTON, MICHAEL, 1627, Of Poets and Poesie. I remember, the Players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, (whatsoever he penn'd) hee never blotted out line. My answer hath beene, would he had blotted a thousand. Which 'they...