[10] It may be, though it is not certain, that Greene was attacking Marlowe in the epistle prefixed to his _Farewell to Folly_ (1591), in which he tells the gentleman students that his _Mourning Garment_ had been so popular that the pedlar found the books "too dear for his pack, that he was fain to bargain for the life of Tomliuclin to wrap up his sweet powders in those unsavoury papers." If "Tomliuclin" is a misprint for Tamburlaine this is Greene's most direct and spiteful attack on Marlowe. [11] Gayley, _Representative English Comedies_, p. 410. [12] _Orlando Furioso_, ii. 76-79; _Old Wives' Tale_, ii. 808-811. [13] See Storojenko, Huth Library, vol. I., p. 235, and Gayley, _Representative English Comedies_, p. 412. [14] Greene's satirical use in _Never too Late_ of the words "Ave Cæsar," which occur in _Edward III._, Act i. Sc. I, and his connecting of them with a cobbler, seem to constitute Fleay's case. The matter has already been mentioned in connection with Greene's jealousy of Marlowe. The latest editor of _Edward III._, C. F. Tucker Brooke, in _The Shakespeare Apocrypha_, ignores the supposition that the play may be by Marlowe and dismisses the theory that it was by two hands. He puts forward the claims of Peele, not, however, with great weight. [15] And for another expression of the same idea see _Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay,_ p. 264. [16] The refrain, "O, what is love! it is some mighty power," occurs with almost a lyric note in _George-a-Greene._ [17] _The Old Dramatists--Greene and Peele_, p. 603. [18] For comment on this _see_ p. lviii. [19] Though we accept the theory of the early composition of _A Looking-Glass_ we fail to follow the arguments of Fleay and Gayley, derived from the introduction of _Perimedes_ (licensed 29th March 1588), that in "the mad priest of the sun," mentioned in connection with Atheist Tamburlaine, Greene can have any reference to the priests of Rasni in Act iv. Scene 3. Certainly Greene could not have held up such tame heroics for comparison with Marlowe's vigorous declamation. Careful scrutiny fails to show that Greene was mentioning a work of his own. The mad priests of the sun would seem rather to be other products of the pen of Marlowe, or to be the work of some other dramatist, possibly Kyd, whom, with Marlowe, Greene was attacking. (_See_ Koeppel in Herrig's _Archiv_, 102, p. 357.) [20] Particularly the parts of Adam, Smith, and Alcon. It is hard to suppose that Spenser in his line, "pleasing Alcon," in the _Tears of the Muses_ (1591), could have been referring to Lodge.