“I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric…”
On "To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us” by Ben Jonson, in Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry (1692 - 1697) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2615
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