[100] Hobbes’ _Thucydides_ was first published in the year 1628. An earlier English version (1550) was, in effect, only a translation of a translation, being based upon the French of Claude de Seyssel, Bishop of Marseilles. Hobbes sneers at this, and certainly made a better one--very literal, sometimes tame--sometimes vulgar, but remaining the best until the issue of Dean Smith’s (1753). [101] Among the best known with which Chapman’s name is connected (jointly with Ben Jonson’s and Marston’s) is “_Eastward Hoe!_” containing a good many satirical things upon the Scotch--which proved a dangerous game--under James; and came near to putting the authors in limbo. [102] B. 1564; d. 1593. [103] Henceforth one who would know of Marlowe, and read what he wrote, in text which comes nearest the dramatist’s own (for we can hardly hope for absolute certainty) should consult the recent scholarly edition, edited by A. H. Bullen (Nimmo, 1884), in three volumes. We doubt, however, if such popular re-establishment of the poet’s fame can be anticipated as would seem to be foreshadowed in the wishes and glowing encomiums of his editor. [104] B. about 1556; d. 1625. [105] Thomas Nashe, b. about 1564; d. 1601. [106] B. 1560(?); d. 1592. See Grosart’s edition of his writings (in Huth Library) where Dr. G. gives the best color possible to his life and works. [107] B. 1558 or thereabout; and d. 1598. [108] Thomas Dekker, b. about 1568; d. about 1640. Best edition of his miscellaneous works that of Grosart (Huth Library), which is charming in its print and its pictures--even to the poet in his bed, busy at his _Dreame_. [109] Drayton, b. 1563; d. 1631. An edition of his works (still incomplete) by Rev. R. Hooper is the most recent. [110] There is an exquisite sonnet usually attributed to him beginning--“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part;” but this is so very much better than all his other sonnets, that I cannot help sharing the doubts of those who question its Drayton origin. If Drayton’s own, the sonnet certainly shows a delicacy of expression, and a romanticism of hue quite exceptional with him. [111] Ben Jonson, b. 1573; d. 1637. [112] Prefacing the edition of Jonson’s works of 1816; also in the elegant re-issue of the same--under editorship of Colonel Cunningham in 1875. Gifford seems to have spent his force (of a biographic sort) in picking up from various contemporary authors whatever contained a sneer at Jonson, and exploding it, after blowing it up to its fullest possible dimensions;--reminding one of those noise-loving boys who blow up discarded and badly soiled paper-bags, only to burst them on their knees. [113] Ward (_Ency. Br._) is inclined to doubt his going at all to Cambridge: I prefer, however, to follow the current belief--as not yet sufficiently “upset.”