Note 1071 — Chapter VII · THE EARLIEST DIFFERENTIATIONS OF POETRY
Reading edition
Tarlton’s Jests ... ed. J. O. Halliwell, London, 1844, pp. xviii f. (Shakspere Society). “As Antipater Sidonius,” says the comparative Meres, “was famous for extemporall verse in Greeke ... so was our Tarleton.”