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• Confound these ancestors. They've stolen our best ideas! JOHNSON
• Ben Jonso
• Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. [Confound those who have said our remarks before us.
  ] or [May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.] -- Aelius Donatu...
• 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....
• For a good poet 's made as well as born.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare...
• He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. -- Ben Jonso
• He was not of an age, but for all time. -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare
• Marlowe's mighty line. -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare
• Sweet swan of Avon! -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare