As may suffice to enlighten future times
With the bright lustre of thy matchless rhymes.
Appended to Shakespeare’s Poems. 1640. Sig. L.
THOMAS BANCROFT, 1639
(fl. 1633-1658)
“To Shakespeare.”
Thy Muse’s sugared dainties seem to us
Like the fam’d apples of old Tantalus:
For we, admiring, see and hear thy strains;
But none I see or hear, those sweets attains.