I mus'd awhile: and having mus'd awhile,
Iesu, (quoth I) is that Gargantua minde
Conquerd, and left no Scanderbeg behinde?
Vowed he not to Powles A Second bile?
What bile or kibe (quoth that same early Spright)
Have you forgot the Scanderbegging wight?
Glosse
Is it a Dreame? or is it the Highest Minde
That ever haunted Powles, or hunted winde,
Bereaft of that same sky-surmounting breath,
That breath, that taught the Tempany to swell?
He, and the Plague contested for the game:
The grand Dissease disdain'd his toade Conceit,
And smiling at his tamberlaine contempt,
Sternely struck-home the peremptory stroke. . . .
Harvey seems to have thought in error that Marlowe died of the
plague. I do not infer from the allusions to 'Powles' that Marlowe
wrote for the Paul's boys; but rather that Tamburlaine, like Nashe's pamphlets, was sold by the booksellers in St. Paul's Churchyard. The 'second Shakerley' is certainly Nashe. Surely 'Scanderbeg', who is 'left behinde', must also be Nashe, and I do not see how Fleay, ii. 65, draws the inference that Marlowe was the author of the lost play entered on the Stationers' Register by Edward Allde on 3 July 1601 as 'the true historye of George Scanderbarge, as yt was lately playd by the right honorable the Earle of Oxenford his servantes' (Arber, iii. 187). There is much satire both of Marlowe and of Nashe in the body of A New Letter (Grosart, Harvey, i. 255).
Collections
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1885. A. H. Bullen, The Works of C. M. 3 vols.
1885-9. H. Breymann and A. Wagner, C. M. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe. 3 parts. [Tamburlaine, Dr. Faustus, Jew of Malta only issued.]
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