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In the posthumous collection of Shakespeare's plays, the First Folio of 1623, a number of people wrote letters and verses introducing the work and praising its author. One such set of verses was written by the very famous Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson who was a good friend of Shakespeare's. His poem is very well known and is frequently used to establish or corroborate facts about Shakespeare's life. The line you allude to reads, "He was not of an age, but for all time !" which is easily misquoted.

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