Does not the Third eclogue of Virgil begin: "Die mihi, ...
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey
They, persuaded that it was grief at finding himself vanquished, and the object of his heart, the liberation and disenchantment of Dulcinea, unattained, that kept him in this state, strove by all the means in their power to cheer him up; the bachelor bidding him take heart and get up to begin his pastoral life, for which he himself, he said, had already composed an eclogue that would take the shine out of all Sannazaro had ever written, and had bought with his own money two famous dogs to guard the flock, one called Barcino and the other Butron, which a herdsman of Quintanar had sold him.
"The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete"
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Croydon is mentioned in the following passages in eclogue I.: "While I in youth in Croidon towne did dwell."
"The Ship of Fools, Volume 1"
Sebastian Brandt