Not Peer Reviewed
Two Noble Kinsmen (Quarto, 1634)
1PROLOGVE.
2Florish.
3NEw Playes, and Maydenheads, are neare a kin,
4Much follow'd both, for both much mony g'yn,
12It has a noble Breeder, and a pure,
13A learned, and a Poet never went
14More famous yet twixt Po and silver Trent.
15Chaucer (of all admir'd) the Story gives,
16There constant to Eternity it lives;
17If we let fall the Noblenesse of this,
19How will it shake the bones of that good man,
20And make him cry from under ground, O fan
23Then Robin Hood? This is the feare we bring;
25And too ambitious to aspire to him;
27In this deepe water. Do but you hold out
28Your helping hands, and we shall take about,
30Sceanes though below his Art, may yet appeare
32Content to you. If this play doe not keepe,
33A little dull time from us, we perceave
35Florish.