text:  The modern Italian writers of novels he was manifestly acquainted with; and we may conclude him to be no less conversant with the ancients of his own country; from the use he has made of Chaucer in _Troilus and Cressida_ and in the _Two Noble Kinsmen_ if that play be his as there goes a tradition it was; and indeed it has little resemblance of Fletcher and more of our author than some of those that have been received as genuine