...Spenser and Beaumont in the Abbey. His monument is his book. This book. The Folio itself: My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser,...live, And we have wits to read and praise to give. William Shakespeare of Stratford, an actor who lacked a university education, and Ben Jonson of London,...

...therefore will begin. Soule 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 lye A little further, to make thee a roome: Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe . . . SCENE 8 BAR...

...sang his rival's praises. After all, he knew the man and saw his plays when they were first performed: Thou art a Monument without a tomb And art alive still,...live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. Afterword On the Publication and Performance of the Play<* Especially in the last century, scholars...

...when he died, no eulogies from his contemporaries in London or in Stratford. Jonson's ode also says Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy Book doth live. Enigmatic? Not to one who knows the cipher story, particularly since there was a very visible physical...

...Shakespeare's "Moniment": Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe. And art alive still, while thy Booke doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. (A4r) Jonson's poem, which will produce many of the terms that come to define eighteenth-century Bardolatry40,...

...confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much, *»**#»* "Thou art all-re still while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read and praise to give, And though thoii hadst small Latin and less Greek From thenoe to honor thee, I would not seek For names...