 Theobald argued that this confirmed that Hall's Labeo was known to be Bacon and that he wrote "Venus and Adonis".Critics of this view argue that the name Labeo derives from Attius Labeo, a notoriously bad poet, and that Hall's Labeo could refer to one of many poets of the time, or even be a composite figure, standing for the triumph of bad verse.Also, Marston's use of the Latin motto is a different poem from the one which alludes to "Venus and Adonis".