Note 1176 — BOOK IV THE PLAY-HOUSES (continued 2)
Reading edition
Scourge of Villainy (1598), xi. 37 (Works, iii. 372):
Luscus, what’s play’d to-day? Faith now I know I set thy lips abroach, from whence doth flow Naught but pure Juliet and Romeo. Say who acts best? Drusus or Roscio? Now I have him, that ne’er of ought did speak But when of plays or players he did treat— Hath made a commonplace book out of plays, And speaks in print: at least what e’er he says Is warranted by Curtain plaudities.