William Basse

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William Basse (c.1583-1653/4) was an English poet. He was a follower of Edmund Spenser. He is now remembered mostly for a eulogy he wrote about Shakespeare that was published in the First Folio (1623). He was educated at Lord Williams's School.

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• Great Brittaines Sunnes-set, bewailed with a shower of tears (1613)
• Maister Basse his Careere, or The new Hunting of the Hare. To a new Court tune (1620)
• The Pastorals and other Workes of W. B. Never before imprinted. Oxford, 1653. Ed. (Oxford, 1870) edited by J. P. Collier
• The Poetical Works of William Basse (1893) edited by R. Warwick Bond