William Basse (Bas) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2 Famous Quotes by William Basse (Bas)
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“Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie A little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb.”
Shakespeare Quotes
Source: On Shakespeare
“The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here, Blest fishers were; and fish the last Food was, that He on earth did taste: I therefore strive to follow those, Whom He to follow Him hath chose.”
Fishing Quotes
Source: The Angler's Song, also found in Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler