Note 46 — BEN JONSON AND SHAKESPEARE BEN JONSON AND SHAKESPEARE[44]
Reading edition
Jonson says “wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stop’d; Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.” This means that he had to be “stop’d” not in writing but in talking. See my Is there a Shakespeare Problem? p. 386, seq. [Ed.]