1651 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Francis Beaumont

Samuel Sheppard, "On the two admirable Witts, Francis Beaumont, and John Fletcher" Epigrams (1651) 23.

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Cease Greece to boast of Aristophanes,
Or of Menander, or Euripides,
The Comick Sock, and Tragick Buskin we
Weare neatest here, in forreigne Brittanie:
Or if you list to struggle for the Bayes,
Wee'l fight with Beaumont's, and with Fletchers Playes.