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_, II. 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._, II. 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_, III. iv. 20, 34.

193. _Rich as the oozy bottom._ _King Henry V._, I. 2. [‘sunken wreck.’]

_Majestic though in ruin._ _Paradise Lost_, II. 300.

_The Cave of Mammon._ _The Faerie Queene_, II. vii. 29.

_New-born gauds, etc._ _Troilus and Cressida_, III. 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_, III. 3.

_Very_ [most] _tolerable_. _Much Ado about Nothing_, III. 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_, II. 2.

_It is silly sooth._ _Twelfth Night_, II. 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. He was stabbed in a tavern quarrel at Deptford.

_Life and Death of Doctor Faustus._ Printed 1604, 1616. See the editions of Dr. A. W. Ward and Mr. Israel Gollancz. The latter is a ‘contamination’ of the two texts.

202. _Fate and metaphysical aid._ _Macbeth_, I. 5.

203. _With uneasy steps._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 295.

_Such footing_ [resting.] _Paradise Lost_, I. 237–8.

_How am I glutted._ _Life and Death of Doctor Faustus_, Scene I. [public schools with silk.]

205. _What is great Mephostophilis._ Scene III.

_My heart is harden’d._ Scene VI.

_Was this the face?_ Scene XVII.

206. _Oh, Faustus._ Scene XIX.

_Yet, for he was a scholar._ And the next quotation. Scene XX.

207. _Oh, gentlemen?_ Scene XIX.

_Snails! what hast got there._ 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. I. 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.] _Richard III_, IV. 4.

_The argument of Schlegel._ Cf. _Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature_ (Bohn, 1846), pp. 442–4.

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_, I. 3.

_Hang both your greedy ears_, and the next quotation. _Ibid._ Act II. 2.

_Tyrants swim safest._ Act V. 3.

209. _Oh! I grow dull._ Act III. 2.

_And none of you._ _King John_, V. 7.

_Now by the proud complexion._ _Lust’s Dominion_, Act III. 4.

_But I that am._ _Antony and Cleopatra_, I. 5.

_These dignities._ _Lust’s Dominion_, Act V. 5.

_Now tragedy._ Act V. 6.

_Spaniard or Moor._ Act V. 1.

_And hang a calve’s [calf’s] skin._ _King John_, III. 1.

_The rich Jew of Malta._ _The Jew of Malta_, acted 1588.

209. Note _Falstaff_. Cf. ‘minions of the moon,’ _1 King Henry IV._, I. 2.

210. _The relation._ Act II. 3.

_As the morning lark._ Act II. 1.

_In spite of these swine-eating Christians._ Act II. 3.

_One of Shylock’s speeches._ _Merchant of Venice_, Act I. 3.

211. _Edward II._ 1594.

_Weep’st thou already?_ Act V. 5.

_The King and Gaveston._ Cf. Act I. 1.

_The lion and the forest deer._ Act V. 1.

_The Song._ See p. 298 and note.

212. _A Woman killed with Kindness._ 1603.

_Oh, speak no more._ Act II. 3.

_Cold drops of sweat._ Act III. 2.

_Astonishment._ Act IV. 4.

213. _Invisible, or dimly seen._ _Paradise Lost_, V. 157.

_Fair, and of all beloved._ Act II. 3.

_The affecting remonstrance._ 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 III. 3 (ed. Dr. Ward).

_His own account._ See his address ‘To the Reader’ in _The English Traveller_, printed 1633.

_The Royal King and Loyal Subject._ 1637.

_A Challenge for Beauty._ 1636.

_Shipwreck by Drink._ Act II. 1.

_Fair Quarrel._ 1617.

_A Woman never Vexed._ 1632.

_Women beware Women._ 1657.

215. _She holds the mother in suspense._ Act II. 2.

_Did not the Duke look up?_ Act I. 3.

216. _How near am I._ Act III. 1.

218. _The Witch._ No date can be given for this play.

_The moon’s a gallant._ Act III. 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. I. p. 194 [cannot co-exist with mirth.]

III. ON MARSTON, CHAPMAN, ETC.

223. _Blown stifling back._ _Paradise Lost_, XI. 313.

224. _Monsieur Kinsayder._ 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._ Part I . Act IV.

_Each man takes hence life._