Chapman. George Chapman (? 1559–1634).
Heywood. Thomas Heywood (c. 1575–c. 1641).
Middleton. Thomas Middleton (c. 1570–1627).
Jonson. Ben Jonson (1572/3–1637).
Beaumont. Francis Beaumont (1584–1616).
Fletcher. John Fletcher (1579–1625).
Rowley. William Rowley (c. 1585–c. 1642) is chiefly remembered as a collaborator with the better-known Elizabethan Dramatists.
How lov’d, how honour’d once. Pope’s Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.
Draw the curtain of time. Cf. Twelfth Night, I. 5. ‘Draw the curtain and shew you the picture.’
Of poring pedantry. ‘Of painful pedantry the poring child.’ Warton: Sonnet written in a blank leaf of Dugdale’s Monasticon.