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Gentleman's Magazine for February, 1860). Mr. Lee is understood to be engaged on a
searching inquiry as to the residence of Jews in England between 1290 and 1635, the
dates of their expulsion and return.
[1]
The expression “eye-lids of the day,” recalls the language of Job— “By his
neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eye-lids of thf morning,“
[2]
There are two copies of ed. 1398 in the British Museum. In one or two passages the
texts differ, a circumstance not uncommon m copies of the same edition of an old
play.
[1]
First printed in Collier's History of Engl. Dram. Lit. iii. 134
[1]
A few years ago a theory was gravely propounded that the player's speech in
Hamlet was “written originally by Shakespeare to complete Marlowe's play.” This
titanic absurdity—“gross as a mountain, open, palpable “—was received with much
applause in certain quarters.
[1]
Two copies of this edition were discovered a few years ago by Mr. Charles
Eximonds in a lumber-room at Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire, the seat of Sir
Charles Isham, Bart. No edition of the complete poem earlier than that of 1600 had
been previously known.
[1]
These figures are given by Mr. Fleay.
[1]
First printed in January 1821, by a wnter in a periodical called. The British Stage.
[1]
His antagonist Nashe had removed to the country in 1592, for safety as we learn
from the Pnvate Epistle to the pnnter prefixed to the first authorised edition of Pierce
Pemksse.
[1]
First printed by Ritson in his Observations on Warton's History of English Poetry.
The '' Note “will be found in an appendix to Vol. 111.
[1]
This fact was discovered by Malone from the Stationers' Registers, Book B, p. 316.
[1]
Warton, in his Hist, of Eng. Poetry, mentions this elegy of Nashe's, but it is
doubtful whether he ever saw it. In Malone's copy of Dido (preserved in the Bodleian)
is the following MS. note:—” He [Warton] informed me by letter that a copy of this
play was in Osborne's catalogue in the year 1754; that he then saw it in his shop
(together with several of Mr. Oldys's books that Osborne had purchased) and that the
elegy n question, 'on Marlowe's untimely death,” was inserted immediately after the
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title-page; that it mentioned a play of Marlowe's entitled the Duke of Guise and four
others, but whether particularly by name he could not recollect. Unluckily he did not
purchase this rare piece, and it is now God knows where.”
[2]
Old ed. “All earth on earth.”
[1]
Old ed. “Neat.”
[1]
Some en tics have seen an allusion to Marlowe in Midsummer Night's Dream, v.
I:-
“The thrice three Muses mourning for the death
Of Learning, late deceased in beggary.”
Others suppose that he was the nval to whom Shakespeare refers in the 85th and 86th
Sonnets.—There is no evidence to support these theories.
[2]
Mr. Collier had a copy of this piece with the following doggerel rhymes written on
the title-page:—
“Our famous Marloe had in this a hand,
As from his fellowes I doe vnderstand.
The printed copie doth his Muse much wrong;
But natheles manie lines ar good and strong;
Of Paris Massaktr such was the fate;
A perfitt coppie came to hand to late.”
A very ridiculous piece of forgery!
[1]
Dyce and Mr. Fleay have collected several instances of verbal resemblance
between the Contention and Edward II.
[1]
have touched upon this point in the littrodvcttcn.
[1]
There is no list of characters in the old copies.
[1]
Old copies “his.”
[1]
Immediately.
[1]
The modern editors insert the word “task.”
[2]
Viceroy. In Day's Parliament of Bees the master-bee is styled ”Prorex.“
[1]
Confounded.
[2]
Care not. Cf. 2 Henry VI., iv. 2:—As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.”
[3]
Rule. Cf. Edward II., v. i:—
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But what are kings when regiment is gone
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day.”
[4]
“Resolve” and “dissolve” are used indifferently.
[1]
8vo. “shippe.”—410. “ships.”
[2]
Old copies “Conerus.”
[3]
I.e. nobles.
[1]
Nares quotes several passages (from Spenser, Jonson, &c.) where “malice” is used
as a verb.
[2]
So 4to—8vo. gives the line to Ortygius.
[1]
Marlowe's use of this word supports Farmer's correction, “infes-tion” for
“infection,” in Richard II., ii. I.
[2]
The verb “injury” is not uncommon. To the instances given by Dyce add Dr.