Or influence, chide, or cheer the drooping Stage;
Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourn’d like night,
And despairs day, but for thy volume’s light.
Prefixed to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare’s Works.
. . . “I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie
A little further to make thee a room.”
See [William Basse], p. 40.