... Wit, English dramatist Robert Greene sneers at "an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide' supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and, being an absolute Johannes factotum [jack of all trades], is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country."" The pun ... lords to have protested at the impossibility of maintaining the vow "is attempting to write a sonnet to his beloved, when he is disturbed by the arrival of the king and forced to hide. From his vantage point he spies on the other m...

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