Thomas Bancroft, 1639 (Fl. 1633-1658)
“To Shakespeare.”
Thy Muse’s sugared dainties seem to us
Like the fam’d apples of old Tantalus:
For we, admiring, see and hear thy strains;
But none I see or hear, those sweets attains.
“To the same.”
Thou hast so us’d thy pen (or shook thy spear),
That Poets startle, nor thy wit come near.
Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs. 1639. Nos. 118 and 119.