 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pages
...excuses ; I mean, with great, but disproportion'd Muses : For, if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers ; And tell — how far thou didst ouf Lilly * outshine, " A little nearer Spenser, to make room " For Shakspire in your threefold,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...excuses ; I mean, with great but disproportion'd muses : For, if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers; And tell — how far thou didst our Lyly outshine,')Or sporting Kyd,$ or Marlowe's mighty line.§ * — - to make thee a... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...excuses ; I mean, with great but disproportion'd muses ; For, if I thought my judgement were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers; And tell — how far thou didst our Lyly outshine, Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line. And though thou hadst small... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...excuses, I mean with great, but disproportion'd Muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lily outshine,! Or sporting Kyd, or Marlow's mighty line. A little nearer Spenser, to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 728 pages
...Chaucer, Spenser, and Beaumont. He considered the last " For, if I thought my judgement were of years, " I should commit thee surely with thy peers *, " And tell, how far thou dost our Lilly outshine, " Or sporting Kyd 4, or Marlowe's ' mighty line." Supposing, however,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 548 pages
...brain excuses, 1 mean with great, but disproportion^ muses: For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers. And tell how far thou didst our Lily outshine. Or sporting Kid, or Marlow's mighty line. And though thou badst small... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 542 pages
...excuses, I mean with great, but disproportion^ muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years, more, alas, Than the queen's life ? a gracious innocent §oa thou didst our Lily outshine, Or vportinr Kid, or Marlow's mighty line. And though thou hud.st small... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...excuses ; I mean, with great but disproportion^ muses : For, if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers ; And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine, Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line : And though thou hadst small... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...best writera of comedy, and in Ben Jonson's celebrated epitaph upon Shakespeare occur the lines : — I should commit thee surely with thy peers. And tell how far thou didst our Lily outshine, etc. Blount tells us that his plays " crowned him with applause, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...excuses ; I mean, with great but disproportion'd muses : For, if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers ; And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine, Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line : And though thou hadst small... | |
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A little further, to make thee a room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give. That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses, I mean with great, but... 
