Note 1285 — Chapter XV
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Green in facility of expression and in the flow of his blank verse is not to be placed below his contemporary Peele. His usual fault, more discoverable in his plays than in his poems, is an absence of simplicity; but his pedantic classical references, frequently without either taste or discretion, he had in common with the other scribbling scholars of the time. It was Shakspeare’s good fortune to be in a great degree without the knowledge, and therefore, if on no other account, without the defect. Collier, iii. 153. Tieck gives him credit for a happy talent, a clear spirit, and a lively imagination, which characterise all his writings. Collier iii. 148.