...OF MY BELOVED MASTER, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much. 'Tis true, and all men's...

...once adulatory and deeply anxious. It begins by pushing aside envy ("To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name / Am I thus ample to thy book and fame") and the praise gets properly going only when Jonson can appropriate his subject as "My Shakespeare"...

...he defeats envy and achieves immortality.44 i6o JONSON AND SHAKESPEARE To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book, and fame: While I confess thy writings to be such, As neither man, nor muse, can praise too much. (H&S 8:390) Any estimation...

...Author Mr. William Shakespeare And What He Hath Left Us B 功了。 心且 To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor Muse can praise too much. Tis true, and all men's...

...he desired for himself. The opening lines hardly disguise that desire: To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame . . . Such disavowal is typically Jonsonian, betraying the ambivalence that always marked Jonson's...

...My Beloved, the Author Mr William Shakespeare' begins with the words, To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name, / Am I thus ample to thy book, and fame', and instantly the damage is done. The low-minded reader is made by the very disclaiming of envy to...

...The first four lines of Ben Jonson's eulogy run (after modernisation): To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy Book and Fame; While I confess thy writings to be such, As neither Man nor Muse can praise too much. These four lines borrow...

...desired to keep Shakespeare's apotheosis uncontaminated by this nastiness: To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ... Envy, nevertheless, insisted on lurking wherever Shakespeare was known and admired. It haunted...

...beloved, The Author MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: AND what he hath left us. To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy Book, and Fame. In the ode, the name Shakespeare is unnecessarily written in a different style and enclosed in parentheses....

...quarrel with Shakespeare was most serious, thus eulogised him : " To draw HO envy (Shakespeare) oa thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much, *»**#»* "Thou art all-re...