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186. The satirist Aretine. Pietro Aretino (1492-1557), the 'Scourge of Princes.' Machiavel. The Arte of Warre and The Florentine Historie appeared in English in 1560 and 1594 respectively.

Castiglione. Count Baldasare Castiglione's II Cortegiano, a Manual for
Courtiers, was translated in 1561 by Sir Thomas Hoby.

Ronsard. Pierre de Ronsard (1524-85), Prince of Poets.'

Du Bartas. Guillaume de Saluste Seigneur du Bartas (1544-1590), soldier, statesman and precursor of Milton as a writer on the theme of creation. His Diuine Weekes and Workes' were Englished in 1592 and later by "yt famous Philomusus,' Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618). See Dr. Grosart's edition of his works.

187. Fortunate fields and groves, etc.

Paradise Lost, 111. 568-70.

Prospero's Enchanted Island. Modern editors give Eden's History of Travayle, 1577, as the probable source of Setebos, etc.

Right well I wote. The Faerie Queene, Stanzas 1.-11I.

...

188. Lear old ballad. Or rather from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Britonum, c. 1130. The ballad of King Leir (Percy's Reliques) is probably of later date than Shakespeare.

Othello.. Italian novel. The Heccatommithi of Giraldi Cinthio.

...

work may have been known in England through a French translation. Those bodiless creations. Hamlet, 111. 4.

Your face, my Thane. Macbeth, 1. 5.

Tyrrel and Forrest. In King Richard III.

189. Thick and slab. Macbeth, 1v. I.

The

Snatched a [wild and] fearful joy. Gray's Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton
College.

The great pestilence of Florence. In 1348. The plague forms but the artificial
framework of the tales; to escape it certain Florentines retire to a country
house and, in its garden, they tell the tales that form the book.

The course of true love never did run even [smooth.] A Midsummer Night's
Dream, 1. 1.

The age of chivalry. The age of chivalry is gone... and the glory of
Europe is extinguished for ever." Burke's Reflections on the French
Revolution. Select Works, ed. Payne, 11. 89.

The gentle Surrey. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (c. 1517-1547) whose
Songs and Sonnets are in Tottel's Miscellany (1557).

Sir John Suckling, 1609-42. Besides writing A ballad upon a wedding Sir
John was the best player at bowls in the country and he invented'
cribbage.

Who prized black eyes.

Like strength reposing.

190. They heard the tumult.

The Session of the Poets, Ver. 20.

"Tis might half slumbering on it own right arm.' Keats' Sleep and Poetry, 237. Cowper's The Task, Iv. 99-100.

Fletcher's Noble Kinsmen.

'I behold

The tumult and am still.'

The Two Noble Kinsmen, 1634. Although Fletcher was certainly one of the two authors of the play, it is not known who was the other. Scenes have been attributed, with some probability, to Shakespeare.

The Returne from Parnassus.
It snowed of meat and drink.
As Mr. Lamb observes.
note attached to Marston's

Cf.

1606. See post, p. 280.

Canterbury Tales, Prologue, 345.
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, Lamb's
What you will.

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191. In act and complement [compliment] extern. Othello, 1. 1.

Description of a madhouse. In The Honest Whore, Part I. Act v. 2.

A Mad World, my Masters. The title of one of Middleton's comedies,
1608.

Like birdlime, brains and all. Othello, 11. 1.

'My invention

Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frize;

It plucks out brains and all.'

192. But Pan is a God. Lyly's Midas, Act iv. 1.

Materiam superabat opus. Ovid, Met., 11. 5.

II. ON LYLY, MARLOW, ETC.

It is not possible to give references to thoroughly satisfactory texts of the
Elizabethan dramatists for the simple reason that, unfortunately, few exist. For
reading purposes the volumes of select plays in The Mermaid Series' and a few
single plays in The Temple Dramatists' may be mentioned.

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192. The rich strond. The Faerie Queene, 1. iv. 20, 34.

193. Rich as the oozy bottom.

Majestic though in ruin.

King Henry V., 1. 2. ['sunken wreck.']
Paradise Lost, 11. 300.

The Cave of Mammon. The Faerie Queene, 11. vii. 29.

New-born gauds, etc.

Troilus and Cressida, 111. 3.

Ferrex and Porrex. By Thomas Norton (1532-1584), and Thomas Sackville,
Lord Buckhurst (1536-1608). Acted Jan. 18, 1561-2.

194. No figures nor no fantasies. Julius Caesar, II. 1.

195. Sir Philip Sidney says. In his Apologie for Poetrie.✔

196. Mr. Pope. says. See Spence, Letter to the Earl of Middlesex, prefixed to
Dodsley's edition of Gorboduc.

His Muse. Thomas Sackville wrote the Induction (1563).

John Lyly. The Euphuist (c. 1554-1606), a native of the Kentish Weald.
Midas (1592), Endymion (1591), Alexander and Campaspe (1584), Mother
Bombie (1594).

198. Poor, unfledged. Cymbeline, 111. 3.

Very [most] tolerable. Much Ado about Nothing, 111. 3.

Grating their lean and flashy jests. Lycidas, 123-4.

'their lean and flashy songs

Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw.'

Bobadil. Captain Bobadil, in Every Man in his Humour.

199. The very reeds bow down. Act iv. 2.

Out of my weakness. Hamlet, 11. 2.

It is silly sooth. Twelfth Night, 11. 4.

201. Did first reduce. Elegy to Henry Reynolds, Esquire, 91 et seq.

Euphues and his England. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, appeared in 1579
and Euphues and his England the year following. They may be read in
Arber's reprint.

Pan and Apollo. Midas, Iv. 1.

202. Note. Marlowe died in 1593.

Deptford.

He was stabbed in a tavern quarrel at

Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. Printed 1604, 1616. See the editions of

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Dr. A. W. Ward and Mr. Israel Gollancz. The latter is a 'contamination' of the two texts.

202. Fate and metaphysical aid. Macbeth, 1. 5.

203. With uneasy steps. Paradise Lost, 1. 295.

Such footing [resting.] Paradise Lost, 1. 237-8.

How am I glutted. Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Scene 1. [public schools with silk.]

205. What is great Mephostophilis. Scene 1.

My heart is harden'd. Scene vi.

Was this the face? Scene xvII.

206. Oh, Faustus. Scene xix.

Yet, for he was a scholar. 207. Oh, gentlemen? Scene xIx. Snails! what hast got there.

And the next quotation. Scene xx.

Cf. Scene VIII.

'Come, what dost thou with that same book?

Thou can'st not read.'

As Mr. Lamb says. Lamb's Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, ed.
Gollancz, Vol. 1. p. 43. (Published originally in 1808).

Lust's Dominion. Published 1657. The view now seems to be that Dekker
had a hand in it: in the form in which we have it it cannot be Marlowe's.
See also W. C. Hazlitt's Manual of Old Plays, 1892.

Pue-fellow [pew-fellow.]
The argument of Schlegel.
1846), pp. 442-4.

Richard III, 1v. 4.

Cf. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature (Bohn,

208. What, do none rise? Act v. 1.

Marlowe's mighty line. The phrase is Ben Jonson's, in his lines To the Memory of my Beloved Master William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us,' originally prefixed to the First Folio of Shakespeare, 1623.

I know he is not dead. Lust's Dominion, 1. 3.

Hang both your greedy ears, and the next quotation. Ibid. Act 11. 2.
Tyrants swim safest. Act v. 3.

209. Oh! I grow dull.

And none of you.

Now by the proud

Act III. 2.

King John, v. 7.

complexion. Lust's Dominion, Act II. 4.

But I that am.

Antony and Cleopatra, 1. 5.

These dignities. Lust's Dominion, Act v. 5.

Now tragedy. Act v. 6.

Spaniard or Moor. Act v. I.

And hang a calve's [calf's] skin. King John, 111. 1.

The rich few of Malta. The Jew of Malta, acted 1588.

209. Note Falstaff. Cf. 'minions of the moon,' 1 King Henry IV., 1. 2.

210. The relation. Act II. 3.

As the morning lark.

Act II. I.

In spite of these swine-eating Christians.
One of Shylock's speeches.

211. Edward II. 1594.
Weep'st thou already?

Act II. 3.

Merchant of Venice, Act 1. 3.

Act v. 5.

The King and Gaveston. Cf. Act 1. 1.
The lion and the forest deer. Act v. 1.
The Song. See p. 298 and note.

212. A Woman killed with Kindness. 1603.

Astonishment. Act Iv. 4. 213. Invisible, or dimly seen.

Fair, and of all beloved.
The affecting remonstrance.

Paradise Lost, v. 157.

Act 11. 3.

Act v. 5.

The Stranger. Benjamin Thompson's (1776?-1816) translation of Kotzebue's (1761-1819) Menschenhass und Reue.

Sir Giles Over-reach. In Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts. 214. This is no world in which to pity men. A Woman killed with Kindness, Act II. 3 (ed. Dr. Ward).

See his address 'To the Reader' in The English Traveller,

His own account.
printed 1633.
The Royal King and Loyal Subject.
A Challenge for Beauty. 1636.
Shipwreck by Drink. Act II. 1.
Fair Quarrel. 1617.

A Woman never Vexed. 1632.
Women beware Women.

1637.

1657.

215. She holds the mother in suspense.

Act 11. 2.

Did not the Duke look up? Act 1. 3.

216. How near am I. Act II. I.

218. The Witch. No date can be given for this play.

The moon's a gallant. Act 1. 3. ['If we have not mortality after 't']['leave me to walk here.']

220. What death is't you desire? Act v. 2.

222. Mr. Lamb's Observations. The same extract from the Specimens is quoted in Characters of Shakespear's Plays, vol. 1. p. 194 [cannot co-exist with mirth.]

III. ON MARSTON, CHAPMAN, ETC.

Paradise Lost, XI. 313.

This was the nom-de-plume under which John Marston

published his Scourge of Villanie, 1598.

Oh ancient Knights. Sir John Harington's translation of Orlando Furioso was published in 1591.

Antonio and Mellida.

1602.

225. Half a page of Italian rhymes.

Each man takes hence life.

225. What you Will. 1607.

Who still slept. Act II. 1.

Part I. Act IV.

Part I. Act 1.

Parasitaster and Malcontent. Parasitaster; or The Fawn, 1606. The Malcontent, 1604.

226. Is nothing, if not critical. Othello, 11. 1.

We would be private. The Fawn, Act 11. 1.

Faunus, this Granuffo. Act .

227. Though he was no duke.

Act. 1.

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230. The way of women's will.

"It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit,

Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit,

That woman's love can win, or long inherit,

But what it is hard is to say,

Harder to hit. . . .'

Samson Agonistes, 1010 et seq.

Hide nothing. Paradise Lost, 1. 27.

Alaham and Mustapha were
He was the school friend,

231. Fulke Greville. Lord Brooke (1554-1628). published in the folio edition of Brooke, 1633. and wrote the Life, of Sir Philip Sidney. His self-composed epitaph reads, Fulke Grevill, servant to Queene Elizabeth, conceller to King James, frend to Sir Philip Sidney.' See Hazlitt's Essay Of Persons one would wish to have seen.'

Sparkish. In Wycherley's Country Wife (1675).

Witwoud and Petulant. In Congreve's The Way of the World (1700).

234. May-Day. 1611.

All Fools. 1605.

The Widow's Tears.

1612.

Eastward Hoe. 1605. Ben Jonson accompanied his two friends to prison for this voluntarily. Their imprisonment was of short duration.

On his release from prison. See Drummond's Conversations, XIII.

Express ye unblam'd. Paradise Lost, 111. 3.

Appius and Virginia. Printed 1654.

The affecting speech. I.e. that of Virginius to Virginia, Act Iv. 1.
Wonder of a Kingdom. Published 1636.

Jacomo Gentili. In the above play.

Old Fortunatus. 1600.

235. Vittoria Corombona. The White Devil, 1612.

Signior Orlando Friscobaldo. In The Honest Whore, Part II., 1630.

The red-leaved tables. Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness, Act 11. 3.
The pangs. Wordsworth's Excursion, vi. 554.

The Honest Whore. In two Parts, 1604 and 1630.
Signior Friscobaldo. The Second Part, Act 1. 2.
237. You'll forgive me. The Second Part, Act II. 1.
It is my father. The Second Part, Act iv. 1.
Oh! who can paint.

238. Tough senior. Love's Labour's Lost, Act 1. 2.

And she has felt them knowingly. Cymbeline, 111. 3.
I cannot. The Honest Whore, Second Part, Act Iv. 1.

239. The manner too. The Second Part, Act III. I.

I'm well. The First Part, Act 1. 3 ['midst of feasting'].
Turns them. 11. Henry IV., 1. 2.

Patient Grizzel. Griselda in Chaucer's Clerke's Tale.

Dekker collaborated

in a play entitled The Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grissill (1603). The high-flying. The Honest Whore, Second Part, Act 11. 1. etc. 240. White Devil.

1612.

Duchess of Malfy. 1623.

By which they lose some colour. Cf. Othello, 1. I. 'As it may lose some colour.'