Abstract
Abstract The learned Plutarch1 in his laconical apophthegms tells of a sophister that made a long and tedious oration in praise of Hercules, and expecting at the end thereof for some great thanks and applause of the hearers, a certain Lacedemonian demanded him who had dispraised Hercules? Methinks the like may be now said to me, taking upon me the defence of poesy, for surely if learning in general were of that account among us as it ought to be among all men, and is among wise men, then should this my apology of poesy (the very first nurse and ancient grandmother of all learning)2 be as vain and superfluousas was that sophister's, because it might then be answered and truly answered that no man disgraced it.
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