Note 923 — BOOK III THE COMPANIES (continued 7)
Reading edition
Epigrammes (1599), iv. 23:
Rome had her Roscius and her Theater, Her Terence, Plautus, Ennius and Me[n]ander, The first to Allen, Phoebus did transfer The next, Thames Swans receiu’d fore he coulde land her, Of both more worthy we by Phoebus doome, Then t’ Allen Roscius yeeld, to London Rome.