Part 49

Copye of Marloes blasphemyes as sent to her H[ighness].

FOOTNOTES:

This is the original title, which has been partly scored through to make way for the following title:--A Note delivered on Whitson eve last of the most horrible blasphemes utteryd by Christofer Marly who within iii dayes after came to a soden and fearfull end of his life.

Words printed in italics are scored through in the MS.

Where lacunÊ occur the clauses are unfit for publication.

In the margin are the words "he is layd for,"--i.e., steps are being taken for his apprehension.

Quoted.

No. IV.

An edition of Marlowe cannot be more fitly concluded than by a reprint of Mr. R. H. Horne's noble and pathetic tragedy, The Death of Marlowe (originally published in 1837), one of the few dramatic pieces of the present century that will have any interest for posterity. For permission to reprint this tragedy I am indebted to Mr. Horne's literary executor, Mr. H. Buxton Forman.

THE DEATH OF MARLOWE.

DRAMATIS PERSON∆.

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, } Dramatists and Actors. THOMAS HEYWOOD, }

THOMAS MIDDLETON, Dramatist.

CECILIA } Runaway Wife of the drunkard, } Bengough.

JACCONOT, alias } A Tavern Pander and Swashbuckler. JACK-O'-NIGHT }

Gentlemen, Officers, Servants, &c.

SCENE I.

Public Gardens--Liberty of the Clink, Southwark.

Enter MARLOWE and HEYWOOD.

HEYWOOD.

Be sure of it.

MARLOWE.

I am; but not by your light.

HEYWOOD.

I speak it not in malice, nor in envy Of your good fortune with so bright a beauty; But I have heard such things!

MARLOWE.

Good Master Heywood, I prithee plague me not with what thou'st heard; I've seen, and I do love her--and, for hearing, The music of her voice is in my soul, And holds a rapturous jubilee 'midst dreams That melt the day and night into one bliss.

HEYWOOD.