Ver 15—_Palici._. The Palici were children of Jupiter and Thalia, not
Calliope. H.
Ver. 205-210.—There are sufficient reasons for believing that these
lines refer to Shakespeare. He had probably written The Two Gentlemen
of Verona, and Love’s Labor’s Lost, before the Complaints were
published (1591), and no other author had up to this time produced a
comedy that would compare with these. For a discussion of this subject,
see Collier’s Life, Chap. VII., and Knight’s Biography, pp. 344-348. C.