This sayd, a great nowmber folowyd by and by
Of poetis laureat of many dyuerse nacyons;
Parte of there names I thynke to specefye:
Fyrste, olde Quintiliane with his Declamacyons;[1567]
Theocritus with his bucolycall relacyons;
Esiodus, the iconomicar,[1568]
And Homerus, the fresshe historiar;
Prynce of eloquence, Tullius Cicero, 330
With Salusty[1569] ageinst Lucius Catelyne,
That wrote the history of Iugurta also;