(467) Why Ben Jonson wrote an extravagant eulogy on Nicholas Breton in 1600 but none to Shakespeare in his lifetime?

 Ben Jonson wrote an extravagant eulogy on Nicholas Breton in 1600

 but none to Shakespeare in his lifetime? 

Nicholas Breton another Penname of the true "Shakespeare" .

Nicholas Breton:

 "Melancholicke Humours" (1600)

Ben Jonsons Eulogy on Nicholas
Breton in Bretons
"Melancholicke Humours" (1600)    

Faksimile...from "Dedication to the Reader".- N.Breton: Melancholicke Humours 1600 (Much ado about nothing!)

William Shakespeare: "Much adoe about Nothing" (1600)

2 Questions:

1.) What may have been the reason that the star witness Ben Jonson in 1600 wrote a lavish praise  to Nicholas Breton, in his booke   "Melancholicke Humours" but never wrote an eulogy to William Shakespeare during his lifetime, but only seven years after his death 1623 in the First Folio?

2.) It is by no means  accidental in 1600, that Breton wrote a dedication to his Readers writing: " with:
...Much Ado about nothing...he hath made a piece of worke [s.Faksimile] and that a Play ("Piece of worke") under that Name appeared in the same year 1600 under  the authorname of William Shakespeare? (s.Faksimile)

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