He beat Marston and took his pistol from him.
Sir W. Alexander was not half kinde unto him, and neglected him, because a friend to Drayton.
That Sir R. Aiton loved him dearly.
Nid Field was his schollar, and he had read to him the satyres of Horace, and some Epigrames of Martiall.
That Markam (who added his Arcadia) was not of the number of the Faithfull, (i. e), Poets, and but a base fellow.
That such were Day and Middleton.
That Chapman and Fletcher were loved by him.
Overbury was first his friend, then turn'd his mortall enimie. etc., etc.
There are, in all, between two and three hundred entries of a similar character. Now, in one of these entries, Jonson is represented as saying that he "esteemeth Done the first poet in the world in some things;" but there is nothing put in Jonson's month, in the whole category, about the "Star of Poets," save that, in another place, is the following item:
"That Shakspeer wanted arte," and, further on, the following: