SOURCE: "Prose Fiction," in Elizabethan Literature, Henry Holt and Company; Williams and Norgate, London, 1914, pp. 211-16.

In this excerpt, Robinson favorably compares Lodge's work to that of his contemporaries.

… It is no contradiction of the denial of fruitfulness in the case of Lilly to say that two other Elizabethan story-tellers, one of them still readable with pleasure, the other much read in his day, enrolled themselves under his banner. Thomas Lodge's Rosalynde (1590) actually had for sub-title Euphues' Golden Legacy … bequeathed to Philautus' Sons; and Robert Greene certainly aped and parroted Lilly through a dozen prose tales. But Lodge in Rosalynde merely employed Lilly's mannerisms in a new kind of story-telling; whereas in Greene there is no abiding element apart from the sombre interest of his tales of rascality from the underworld in which he dived so deeply. Even as to that, indeed, he is indebted to earlier writers...