_CHRISTOPHER MARLOW_. _Christopher Marlow_ was (as we said) not only contemporary with _William Shakespear_, but also, like him, rose from an Actor, to be a maker of Comedies and Tragedies, yet was he much inferior to _Shakespear_ not only in the number of his Plays, but also in the elegancy of his Style. His Pen was chiefly employ'd in Tragedies; namely, his _Tamberlain_ the first and second Part, _Edward_ the Second, _Lust's Dominion_, or _the Lascivious Queen_, the _Massacre of_ Paris, his _Jew of_ Malta, a Tragi-comedy, and his Tragedy of _Dido_, in which he was joyned with _Nash_. But none made such a great Noise as his Comedy of _Doctor Faustus_ with his Devils, and such like tragical Sport, which pleased much the humors of the Vulgar. He also begun a Poem of _Hero_ and _Leander_; wherein he seemed to have a resemblance of that clear and unsophisticated Wit which was natural to _Musaeus_ that incomparable Poet. This Poem being left unfinished by _Marlow_ who in some riotous Fray came to an untimely and violent end, was thought worthy of the finishing hand of _Chapman_, as we intimated before; in the performance whereof, nevertheless he fell short of the Spirit and Invention with which it was begun. * * * * * _BARTON HOLYDAY_. _Barton Holyday_, an old Student of _Christ-Church_ in _Oxford_, who besides his Translation of _Juvenal_ with elaborate Notes, writ several other things in _English_ Verse, rather learned than elegant; and particularly a Comedy, called _The Marriage of the Arts_: Out of which, to shew you his fluent (but too Satyrical Style) take these Verses made by him to be spoken by _Pocta_, as an Execration against Women. O Women, Witches, Fayries, Devils, The impure extract of a world of Evils; Natures great Errour, the Obliquity Of the Gods Wisdom; and th'Anomaly From all that's good; Ile curse you all below The Center, and if I could, then further throw Your cursed heads, and if any should gain A place in Heaven, Ile rhyme 'em down again To a worse Ruine, _&c._ * * * * * _CYRIL TURNER_. _Cyril Turner_ was one who got a Name amongst the Poets, by writing of two old Tragedies, the _Athei'st's Tragedy_, and the _Revenger's Tragedy_; which two Tragedies, saith one, His Fame unto that Pitch so only raised, As not to be despised, nor too much prais'd. * * * * * _THOMAS MIDLETON_.