Epigrammes in the oldest Cut, and newest Fashion. John Weever. 1599. Epig. 22.
Some bibliographers have assigned the first edition of Weever’s Epigrammes to the year 1595, but no copy bearing that date is known.
JOHN DAVIES, 1610
(1565?-1618)
“To our English Terence, Mr. Will. Shakespeare.”
Some say, good Will, which I in sport do sing,
Had’st thou not play’d some kingly parts in sport,
Thou had’st been a companion for a king,
And been a king among the meaner sort.
Some others rail; but rail as they think fit,