[160]. “Greatest commendation” should read “greater commendation.”
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.