Oh, tis a way that spoiles things haply good
When itching youngsters crop themselves i'th bud,
And so prove rotten before ripe, to win't,
That they may have their names but seene in print.

Naumachia, or Hollands Sea-fight (London: T[homas] P[urfoot] for Thomas Law, and William Garrat, 1622), "A Caveat to his Muse", n.p. Cf. Robert Harris, Samuels Funerall: or, A Sermon Preached at the Funerall of Sir A. Cope (London: George Purslowe for John Bartlet, 1626), pp. 19–20