_editor in form._ See Warburton, p. 97.
_sufficient to decide the controversy._ See Johnson, p. 135.
167. _whose memory he honoured._ Farmer has added to the quotation from
Jonson’s Poem “To the Memory of my Beloved Mr. William Shakespeare” a
phrase from the passage “De Shakespeare Nostrati” in Jonson’s
_Discoveries_: “I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side
idolatry as much as any.”
_“__Jealousy,__”__ cries Mr. Upton._ In his _Critical Observations_, 1748,
p. 5.
_Drayton_, “In his Elegie on Poets and Poesie, p. 206. Fol., 1627”
(Farmer).
_Digges_, Leonard (1588-1635). “From his Poem ‘upon Mister William
Shakespeare,’ intended to have been prefixed, with the other of his
composition, to the folio of 1623: and afterward printed in several
miscellaneous collections: particularly the spurious edition of
Shakespeare’s Poems, 1640. Some account of him may be met with in Wood’s
_Athenae_” (Farmer).
_Suckling._ _Fragmenta Aurea_, 1646, p. 35:
The sweat of learned _Johnson’s_ brain
And gentle _Shakespear’s_ easier strain.
_Denham_ “On Mr. Abraham Cowley,” _Poems_, 1671, p. 90:
Old Mother Wit and Nature gave
_Shakespear_ and _Fletcher_ all they have.
_Milton._ _L’Allegro_, 134.
_Dryden._ _Essay of Dramatic Poesy_: see p. 160.
_some one else._ Edward Young, the author of _Night Thoughts_, in his
_Conjectures on Original Composition_, 1759, p. 31.