In Philaster, a drama by Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625), Megra, a Lascivious Lady, is thus described:
Dion: Faith, I think she is one whom the state keeps for the agents of our confederate princes; she’ll cog and lie with a whole army, before the league shall break. Her name is common through the kingdom, and the trophies of her dishonor advanced beyond Hercules’ Pillars. She loves to try the several constitutions of men’s bodies; and, indeed, has destroyed the worth of her own body by making experiment upon it for the good of the commonwealth.
In Endymion, John Lyly’s drama, Epiton and Sir Tophas have a verbal bout on love:
Epiton: Sir, will you give over wars and play with that bauble called love?
Tophas: Give over wars? No, Epi, Militat omnis amans, et habet sua castra Cupido.
Epiton: Love hate made you very eloquent, but your face is nothing fair.
Tophas: Non formosus erat, sed erat facundus Ulysses.
Epiton: Nay, I must seek a new master if you can speak nothing but verses.
Tophas: Quicquid conabar dicere, versus erat. Epi, I feel all Ovid De Arte Amandi lie as heavy at my heart as a load of logs.