...feathers, that with his tygres heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes hee is as well able to bombaste out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an...fac-totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a countrcy." To Mr. Tyrwhit we are indebted for the first application of this passage to Shakspeare,...

...— and justly so — in his dying hours. Thus in the well-known passage referring to Shakspeare : " There is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers,...able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you. " Beautified with our feathers means, as he expresses it, to write blank verse, and imitate the rules...

...have all been beholding, shall (were ye in that case that I am now) be both of them at once forsaken? Yes, trust them not ; for there is an upstart crow,...hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank-verse, as the best of you : and, being an absolute Johannes Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit,...

..." There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart, wrapped up in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to...blank verse as the best of you ! and being an absolute John Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only shake-scene in a country." Poor Greene, and his brother...

...Tigers heart wrapp'd in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank-verse, as the best of you : and, being an absolute Johannes...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country. O ! that I might entreat your rare wits to be employed in more profitable courses, and let these apes...

...Tigers heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank-verse, as the best of you : and, being an absolute Johannes...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country. O ! that I might entreat your rare wits to be employed in more profitable courses, and let these apes...

...Tiger's heart wrapp'din a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank-verse , as the best of you : and being an absolute Johannes...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country. Let these apes imitate your past excellence, and never more acquaint them with your admired inventions....

...although * " There is an upstart crow, beautified with pur feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." — Greene'* Groatsworth of Wit, 1592. t By the Rev. Joseph Hunter, in the ' Second Part of New Illustrations...

...feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bomhast E Sltake-scene in a country.' The panning allusion to Shakspeare is palpable: the expressions, ' tiger's...

...dramatists, Marlowe, Peele, and Lodge, says, " Yes ! trust them not " (the managers of the theatre) ;" for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." As it could not be doubtful against whom this attack was directed, we cannot wonder that Shakspeare...