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Farewell to Folly
Extract from Robert Greene's Farewell to Folly (1591):-
Others…if they come to write or publish anything in print, it is either distilled out of ballets [ballads] or borrowed of theological poets which, for their calling and gravity, being loth to have any profane pamphlets pass under their hand, get some other Batillus to set his name to their verses. Thus is the ass made proud by this underhand brokery. And he that cannot write true English without the aid of clerks of parish churches will need make himself the father of interludes.
by Peter Dawkins
The Francis Bacon Research Trust
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