TRANSLATION of TERENCE.
105
had some knowledge of both; and if we may judge by our own time, a man, who has any Greek, is seldom without a very competent share of Latin; and yet such a man is very likely to study Plutarch in English, and to read translations of Ovid.
See Dr. Farmer’s reply to these remarks by Mr. Colman, in a note on Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act IV. Sc. ii. p. 435.
Surely, Towers having said that Cartwright had no Greek, is no proof that Ben Jonson said so of Shakespeare.
