And help t’ adorn thee with deserved Bays.

Runne, and a Great Caste. The Second Bowle. (Being the second part of a Rubbe, and a Great Cast, 1614.) Epigram 92, Sig. K2, back.

WILLIAM BASSE, 1622
(d. 1653?)

On Mr. William Shakespeare.

Renowned Spenser lie a thought more nigh

To learned Beaumont, and rare Beaumont lie

A little nearer Chaucer, to make room

For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb.

To lodge all four in one bed make a shift