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Q: Who exclaims in his sonnet that, “Under this carved marble of thine own, sleep, brave tragedian, Shakespeare, sleepalone”?
  • A. Ben Jonson
  • B. Michel Drayton
  • C. John Dryden
  • D. William Basse
Correct Answer: Option D - William Basse exclaims in his sonnet that “Under this carved marble of thine own, sleep, brave tragedian, Shakespeare, sleepalone”? William Basse was a poet and a member of the servant class who first comes to the attention of historians and students of language in 1602, when William Basse published his first literary work, a poem of 15 six-line stanzas entitled Sword and Buckler or ‘The Serving Mans Defence’.
D. William Basse exclaims in his sonnet that “Under this carved marble of thine own, sleep, brave tragedian, Shakespeare, sleepalone”? William Basse was a poet and a member of the servant class who first comes to the attention of historians and students of language in 1602, when William Basse published his first literary work, a poem of 15 six-line stanzas entitled Sword and Buckler or ‘The Serving Mans Defence’.

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William Basse exclaims in his sonnet that “Under this carved marble of thine own, sleep, brave tragedian, Shakespeare, sleepalone”? William Basse was a poet and a member of the servant class who first comes to the attention of historians and students of language in 1602, when William Basse published his first literary work, a poem of 15 six-line stanzas entitled Sword and Buckler or ‘The Serving Mans Defence’.