...— and justly so — in his dying hours. Thus in the well-known passage referring to Shakspeare : " There is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers,...able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you. " Beautified with our feathers means, as he expresses it, to write blank verse, and imitate the rules...

...shall (were ye in that case that I am now) be both of them at once forsaken? Yes, trust them not ; for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our...hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank-verse, as the best of you : and, being an absolute Johannes Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit,...

...although * " There is an upstart crow, beautified with pur 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." — Greene'* Groatsworth of Wit, 1592. t By the Rev. Joseph Hunter, in the ' Second Part of New Illustrations...

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...decease, the writer, addressing his fellow dramatists, Marlowe, Peele, and Lodge, says, " Yes ! trust them not " (the managers of the theatre) ;" for there...against whom this attack was directed, we cannot wonder that Shakspeare should be hurt by it ; or that he should expostulate on the occasion rather warmly...

...players are not to be trusted is because their place is supplied by another : " Yes, trust them not ; for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers,...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." ROBERT GREENE has been described by his friend Henry Chettle as a " man of indifferent years, of face...

...is because their place is supplied by another : " Yes, trust them not ; for there is an upstart erow beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." ROBERT GREENE has been deseribed by his friend Henry Chettle as a " man of indifferent years, of face...

...— ' For there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt ; The torrid or the frozen zone Bring equal ease...hato Is sweeter than a calm estate. Disdain Return SltaJte-scene in a country.' The punning allusion to Shakspcare is palpable : the •^pressions, '...

...decease, the writer, addressing his fellow dramatists, Marlowe, Peele, and Lodge, says, " Yes ! trust them not " (the managers of the theatre) ;" for there...against whom this attack was directed, we cannot wonder that Shakspeare should be hurt by it ; or that he should expostulate on the occasion rather warmly...

...decease, the writer, addressing his fellow dramatists, Marlowe, Peele, and Lodge, says, " Yes ! trust them not " (the managers of the theatre) ; " for there...against whom this attack was directed, we cannot wonder that Shakspeare should be hurt by it ; or that he should expostulate on the occasion rather warmly...