...shall (were ye in that case that I am now) be both of them at once forsaken P Yes, trust them not ; for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers,...as the best of you ; and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.' The reference to Shakspeare...

...them not ! There is an upstart crow beautified with, our feathers, that with his tyger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to...his own conceit the only SHAKESCENE in a country." " The absolute Johannes Factotum," " the only shake-scene," and "the crow beautified with their feathers,"...

...winner, God give you good night !" worth of Wit," thus vented his anger against the new luminary ; — " There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...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...

...beautified with out feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is at well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.' The punning allusion to Shakspeare is unmistakable : the expressions ' tiger's heart wrapt in a player's...

...Robert Greene warned his fellow-dramatists of ' an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank...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....

...upstart crow, beautified in our feathers, that with his ti/t/er'& ixart wrapped in a player's Jtide,* supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank...Johannes Factotum., is, in his own conceit, the only Shakes-scene in a country." In this passage we have evidence that in 1592 Shakespere, the " upstart,"...

...he adds, ' there is an upstart crow beautified with our 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.' The term' Shake-scene,' conspicuously 1 Mr Collier has published a paper found in Lord Ellesmere's...

...playwright of his day is stigmatized as " an upstart crow, beautified in our feathers, that with his tyger's heart wrapped in a player's hide,* supposes he is...Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shakes-scene in a country." In this passage we have evidence that in 1592 Shakespere, the " upstart,"...

...for * " There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to...Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only SJuike-scene in a country." — Greene's Groatsworth of Wit, 1592. t But the Rev. Joseph Hunter, in...

...(the players) not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his tyger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as...Johannes factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shatoscene in a country." An allusion is here manifest to the " tyger's heart, wrapt in a woman's hide,"...