Allott was editor of a famous miscellany of Elizabethan poetry, entitled "England's Parnassus; or the choycest Flowers of our Modern Poets, with their Poeticall comparisons, Descriptions of Bewties, Personages, Castles, Pallaces, Mountaines, Groves, Seas, Springs, Rivers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasant and profitable.

The fact has been overlooked that Dr. Farmer, in a manuscript note in his copy of England's Parnassus,[1] states that he, too, had seen the name "Robert Allott" printed in full.

[2] In 1599, a thick duodecimo was published, entitled Wits Theater of the Little World, a prose "collection of the flowers of antiquities and histories".

Bodenham, it can be shown on other grounds, was not the compiler of the prose and verse miscellanies of the beginning of the seventeenth century, which, like England's Helicon and Wits Theater, have been repeatedly associated with his name; he was merely their projector and patron.

Samuel Egerton Brydges surmised that he was the Robert Allott who held a fellowship at St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1599.

[3] There was also a publisher of this name in the early part of the seventeenth century; but we have no means of identifying the editor of England's Parnassus with either of his namesakes.

In each of these cases the Robert Allott is doubtless to be identified with the editor of England's Parnassus, to whom we might also attribute with safety the six Latin hexameters (signed "R.

[4] Allott's other production, Wits Theater, is a collection of moral sayings gathered from classical authors, anecdotes of famous men, historical epitomes, and the like.