ABSTRACT
The Elizabethan writer who was to become the best-selling English author of all time, and a national literary icon, first announced himself in print not in his mother tongue but in Latin: Vilia miretur vulgus: mihi flavus Apollo Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua. 1 [Let the masses wonder at cheap things: for me, let golden Apollo serve full cups straight from the Castalian spring.]
