Gerard Langbaine, The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets… (1698)
“ Samuel Daniel, who had been her Tutor, we have had many Pretenders to the Muses of that Sex, but I do not remember that I have read of any one, that having Power, did ever exert it in the Encouragement and Patronage of any particular Poet, or Poetry in general. 'Tis true indeed, the Catalogue of Men that have done it, is far from being numerous, tho' this may be said of them, which cannot of our little Politicians, That they have been the greatest Men of their Age, and perhaps of any Age. ”
