And Pole's promos, Mr. Wilfrud; ye're forgettin' that.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
When we speak of the drama that existed before the coming of Marlowe, and that vanished at his advent, we think usually of the rhyming plays written wholly or mainly in ballad verse of fourteen syllables-of the Kings Darius and Cambyses, the promos and Cassandra of Whetstone, or the Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes of George Peele.
"A Study of Shakespeare"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
His play, promos and Cassandra, translated from Cinthio's Hecatomithi, was used by Shakespeare in Measure for Measure.
"A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature"
John W. Cousin