William Basse
Basse's most famous poem is his "enormously popular sixteen-line elegy on Shakespeare":
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play "Julius Caesar", by William Shakespeare. Occurring in Act III, scene II, it is one of the most famous lines in all of Shakespeare's works.