Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 1 of 2] / Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age

by Nathan Drake

"Come, fellow Greene, come to thy gaping grave,

Bid Vanity and Foolery farewell,

That overlong hast plaid the mad-brained knave,

And overloud hast rung the bawdy bell.

Vermine to vermine must repair at last;

No fitter house for busie folke to dwell;

Thy conny-catching pageants are past,

Some other must those arrant stories tell:

These hungry wormes thinke long for their repast;

Come on; I pardon thy offence to me;