Chettle:
The pretty mercer’s wife, who often has a room to see the play, made a meeting with King Richard III, Dick Burbage, there. Quiet Will overheard the appointment, and after the play followed the lady. Poor Dick, having to change his robes, came late, and knocked. “Who’s there?” asked Will, from the inside. “Richard III,” whispered Dick. “Ah,” quoth Will, “Richard III comes after William the Conqueror.” Ho! ho! ho!
Selden:
So the sportive blood of youth beflecks the dignity of manhood!
Dekker:
’Tis too pat to be true.
Fletcher:
We poets are all given to Venus.
Chapman:
How true that Venus story is, and how beautiful. We shall never equal the Greeks; never; they were our masters in everything.