text: ' "The consideration of this made Mr Hales of Eton say that there was no subject of which any poet ever writ but he would produce it much better done in Shakspeare: and however others are now generally preferred before him yet the age wherein he lived which had contemporaries with him Fletcher and Jonson never equalled them to him in their esteem; and in the last king's court when Ben's reputation was at highest Sir John Suckling and with him the greater part of the courtiers set our Shakspeare far above him