Soul of the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room.
Ben Jonson
Wisdom
A quote by Ben Jonson
From the source
To the Memory of Shakespeare.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.