His only alleged connection to the plays came seven years after his death in the tribute by Ben Jonson in the First Folio.

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It is Jonson in my text, but is this a misprint?

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Many of these employees were pressured to work 50 to 55 hour weeks since Ron Jonson took over (though not receiving one dime more than their normal 40-hour salary dictated).

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Ben Jonson will appear a line after a popular instant coffee blend has been mentioned, Dante will be found next to a mime artist, Marcel Marceau, and Lawes himself figures auditioning for Ronnie Scott.

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Few historians understood how people outside the nobility functioned, but there was a thriving middle class able to give its progeny a classical education in public schools, of which Shakespeare and fellow literary luminary Ben Jonson were beneficiaries.

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There was little awareness of how other classes of people in the era functioned, including a thriving middle class able to give its progeny a classical education in public schools, of which Shakespeare and fellow literary luminary Ben Jonson were beneficiaries.

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If an investor had bought an assortment of companies like these, he could have suffered a few bankruptcies in the mix and still come out ahead of the more cautious group that bought Johnson and Jonson (JNJ), which has yielded a 24% recovery.

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Yes, documents from 400 years ago could be lost, yet we have letters from Thomas Nashe, Philip Massinger, Gabriel Harvey, Samuel Daniel, George Peele, Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and William Drummond, Anthony Mundy, John Lyly, Thomas Kyd, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe and others, many of them lesser writers.

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