| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 2055 |
| AUTHOR: | Ben Jonson (15721637) |
| QUOTATION: | Soul of the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | To the Memory of Shakespeare. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| | Note 1. Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie A little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb. Basse: On Shakespeare. [back] |
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