...tiger's 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." In 1593 then appeared, in all likelihood, the first composition which was wholly his. He died in 1616,...

...those " puppets that speak from our mouths, those anticks garnished in our feathers " ; and who, " being an absolute Johannes Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." The charge of plagiarism that is here insinuated is simply absurd ; for Shakespeare gave away his own...

...his tyger's heart wrapt 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 SHAKESCENE in a country." " The absolute Johannes Factotum," " the only shake-scene," and "the crow beautified with their feathers,"...

...Tiger's 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...Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in the country."! These passages leave no doubt as to Shakspeare's having borrowed from Greene as early...

...tigre's heart wrapped in a player's hide, suppose that he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you ; and being an absolute Johannes...his own conceit the only Shakescene in a country." Weare told that Shakspere felt keenly the spiteful insinuation, and expressed somehow or another his...

...tiger's 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." This would seem to imply, what is otherwise probable enough, that up to this time Shakespeare had chiefly...

...Shakespeare (not by name) for having been instrumental in the publication of Greene's attack upon him. the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum,...his own conceit the only Shakescene in a country." (Dyce's Edit, of Greene's Works, I. Ixxxi.) In this extract, although Greene talks of "an upstart crow...

...an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygre's heart, wrapt in a players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank-verse...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." This is obviously levelled at Shakespeare, under the play upon his name of Shake-scene. The words "...

...crow, b^airtined tritk cur feather*, that supposes he is as well able to bombast oat a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes...his own conceit the only Shakescene in a country.' Farmer was a collector of these hitherto inconsidered feathers, and with them lined a mare's nest....

...upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that 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 Shakescene in a country.' Farmer was a collector of these hitherto incousidered feathers, and with them lined a mare's nest....