I should commit thee surely with thy peers,

And tell how for thou didst our Lyly out-shine,

Or sporting Kid, or Marlowe’s mighty line.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek,

From thence to honour thee, I would not seek

For names; but call forth thundering Æschilus,

Euripides, and Sophocles to us,

Paccuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead,

To life again, to hear thy buskin tread,

And shake a stage: or, when thy socks were on,