The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson

Jonson as laureate - 1631

Literary Record 33

[From John Selden, Titles of Honor .]

In 1631, in the second edition of Titles of Honor, Selden added a section on poetic laurels, with a tribute to Jonson.

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And thus haue I, by no vnseasonable digression, performed a promise to you my beloued BEN. IONSON. Your curious learning and iudgment may correct where I haue erred, and adde where my notes and memorie haue left me short. You are

-- omnia Carmina doctus
Et calles Mython plasmata & Historiam.  

And so you both fully know what concernes it, and your singular Excellencie in the Art most eminently deserues it.

(412-413)

Learned in all things poetical and skilled in mythic fiction and history. Ausonius, Commemoratio Professorum Burdigalensium, 21.25-6.