Against him is every Critick, ancient and modern, from Aristotle to Rimer, and more than all of them against him is his own self.
"An Essay on Criticism"
John Oldmixon
It was therefore expedient we deuised for euery figure of importance his vulgar name, and to ioyne the Greeke or Latine originall with them; after that sort much better satisfying aswel the vulgar as the learned learner, and also the authors owne purpose, which is to make of a rude Rimer, a learned and a Courtly Poet.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham
But little trace of censure appears, except in the stories about Burghley's dislike of him, as an idle Rimer, and perhaps as a friend of his opponents.
"Spenser (English Men of Letters Series)"
R. W. Church