...beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger'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 »n absolute Johannes Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.' The panning...

...we find him sneered at by his contemporary, Robert Greene, in 1592, in the following terms : — " There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...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,...

...his less fortunate contemporaries, one of whom, Henry Chettle, bespattered him, in a pamphlet, as " 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 bombast out a blank verse as the best of you...

...the motives which he gives for so doing is the imprudence of trusting to the actors^ for, he says, V there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...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,...

...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,...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 fac totum,...

...Shakespeare, the tiger-hearted, as Greene called him in his pamphlet. In his envy he thus speaks of him : ' There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, thinks himself able to bombast ont a blank verse as the best of you — in his own conceit the only...

...beholding, shall, were ye in that case I am now, be both of them at once forsaken !* Yes, trust 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 bombast^ out a blank verse as...

...person of the name of Green maliciously penned the following lines, evidently alluding to our poet: — "There is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tigre's heart wrapped in a player's hide, suppose that he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse...

...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,...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,...

...and what follows is the whole that relates to our great dramatist: — " Yes, trust them not ; for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapped in aplayers hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as 1 Chettle acknowledges the...