Others againe here lived in my dayes, That have of us deserved no lesse praise For their translations, then the daintiest wit That on Parnassus thinks, he highst doth sit, And for a chaire may mongst the Muses call, As the most curious maker of them all; As reverent Chapman, who hath brought to us, Musaeus, Homer, and Hesiodus Out of the Greeke; and by his skill hath reard Them to that height, and to our tongue endear'd, That were those Poets at this day alive, To see their bookes thus with us to survive, They would think, having neglected them so long, They had bin written in the English tongue.
