Naught but pure Juliet and Romeo.

Say who acts best? Drusus or Roscio?

Now I have him, that ne’er of ought did speak

But when of plays or players he did treat—

Hath made a commonplace book out of plays,

And speaks in print: at least what e’er he says

Is warranted by Curtain plaudities.

[1177] Cf. p. 365.

[1178] Jeaffreson, i. 259.

[1179] Heath, Epigram 39; Wither, Abuses, i. 1; ii. 3.