Ben Jonson is such a complicated figure. He was famously bad-tempered and you may easily imagine him as grumpy too, according to his criticism on some of his greatest contemporary. He accused Shakespeare's language of being with false wits and puns and attacked the Bard in several other perspectives. But three years after Shakespeare died, he wrote, "I loved that man." He said of John Donne, "for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging", but in fact, he and Donne were close friends and apparently admired each other. In his poem "To John Donne", he openly expressed his jealousy to Donne's talents even though as a poet he was far more well-known than Donne at the time. Their friendship always brought a smile on my face. :)