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William Shakespeare

Note 2 — GEORGE BRANDES (continued 9)

William Archer translation

He says of Jonson in The Times Displayed in Six Sesfyads:—

"So His, that Divine Plautus equalled, Whose Commick vain Menander nere could hit, Whose tragic sceans shal be with wonder Read By after ages, for unto his wit My selfe gave personal ayd, I dictated To him when as Sejanus fall he writ, And yet on earth some foolish sots there bee That dare make Randolph his Rival in degree."

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