...of the Muses (1591) findet; es sind die Verse : And he — the man whom Nature's se1f had made ' Tu mock herself , and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter...jolly merriment Is also deaded and in dolour drent. Wie einschmeichelnd es auch scheint , diese Worte auf Shakespeare zu beziehen, so ist dessenungeachtet...

...now despised, and made a laughing game. And he, the man whom Nature's self had made To mock herselfe, and truth to imitate, With kindly counter, under mimic...jolly merriment Is also deaded and in dolour drent. Instead thereof, scoffing scurrilitie And scornful folly with contempt is crept, Rolling in rymes of...

...defaced; And those sweet wits, which wont the like to frame, Are now despis'd, and made a laughing game. And he, the man whom Nature self had made To mock herself, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter3 under mimic shade, Our pleasant Willy,* ah ! is dead of late : With whom all joy and jolly...

...whom Nature selfe had made To mock herselfe, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter under Mimik shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah ! is dead of late : With whom all joy and jolly meriment Is also deaded, and in dolonr drent. In stead thereof scoffing scurrilitie, And scornfull...

...Nature seife had made To mock herseife, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter under Mimik shade, Onr pleasant Willy, ah ! is dead -of late : With whom all joy and jolly meriinent Is also deaded, and in dolonr drent. In stead thereof scoffing scurrilitie, And scornfull...

...made To mock her felfe, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter under Mimick Hiade, . Our pleafant Willy, ah ! is dead of late : With whom all joy and jolly meriment Is alfo deaded, and in dolour drent." — p. 335. 4692. Kind-Harts Dreame. Conteining fiue...

...Nature selfe had made 20S To mock her selfe, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter under mimick shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah ! is dead of late : With whom all ioy and iolly merimeut Is also deaded, and in dolour dreuU *io In stcud thereof scoffing Scurrilitie,...

...whom Nature's self had mode To mock herself, and Truth to Imitate, With kindly counter under mlmlck shade,— Our pleasant willy, ah! Is dead of late:...Jolly merriment Is also deaded, and In dolour drent.' " But this only proves more clearly the mythical character of Shakespeare; since the poem, in which...

...whom Nature's self had made To mock herself, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter under mimick shade, — Our pleasant Willy, ah ! is dead of late...jolly merriment Is also deaded, and in dolour drent.' " But this only proves more clearly the mythical character of Shakspeare ; since the poem, in which...

...Ben Jonson and Edmund Spencer, Philip Massinger, and Beaumont and Fletcher, and, greater than all, He the man whom Nature self had made To mock herself, and Truth to imitate : the poet of all time, the man for his country to glory in through all succeeding generations, the...