Bishop Tanner likewise mentions this elegy in so particular a manner that he must have seen it. "Marlovius (Christopherus), quondam in academia Cantabrigiensi musarum alumnus; postea actor scenicus; deinde poeta dramaticus tragicus, paucis inferior Scripsit plurimas tragedias, sc. Tamerlane.-Tragedie of Dido Queen of Carthage. Pr. Come gentle Ganymed. Hanc perfecit + edidit Tho. Nash Lond. 1594. 4^to.--Petrarius in præfatione ad Secundam partem Herois et Leandri multa in Marlovii commendationem adfert; hoc etiam facit Tho. Nash in _Carmine Elegiaco Tragidiæ Didonis præfiso in obitum Christop. Marlovii_, ubi quatuor ejus tragidiarum mentionem facit, nec non et alterius _de duce Guisio_." _Bib. Britan._ 1740. I suspect M^r Warton had no other authority than this for saying that this play was left imperfect by Marlowe, and completed + published by Nashe; for it does not appear from the title page that it was not written in conjunction by him + Marlowe in the lifetime of the former. Perhaps Nashe's Elegy might ascertain this point. Tanner had, I believe, no authority but Philipses, for calling Marlowe an actor. There was an old Latin play on the subject of Dido, written by John Rightwise and played before Cardinal Wolsey + again before Queen Elizabeth in 1564. There is also another Latin play on this subject _Dido_, tragedia nova so quatuor pri*ibus *** **************** Virgilii disampla Antwerp ed, 1559. THE Tragedie of Dido _Queene of Carthage:_ Played by the Children of her _Maiesties Chappell._ Written by Christopher Marlowe, and _Thomas Nash. Gent._ Actors _Iupiter._ _Ascanius._ _Ganimed._ _Dido._ _Venus._ _Anna._ _Cupid._ _Achates._ _Iuno._ _Ilioneus._ _Mercurie._ _Iarbas._ _Hermes._ _Cloanthes._ _Æneas._ _Sergestus._ [Illustration: (Decorative) "BY PEACE PLENTY, BY WISDOME PEACE"] AT LONDON, Printed, by the Widdowe _Orwin_, for _Thomas Woodcocke_, and are to be solde at his shop, in Paules Church-yeard, at the signe of the blacke Beare. 1594. [Illustration: (Decorative)] The Tragedie of _Dido_ Queene _of Carthage._ _Here the Curtaines draw, there is discovered_ Iupiter _dandling_ Ganimed _upon his knee, and_ Mercury _lying asleepe_. _Iup._ Come gentle _Ganimed_ and play with me, I loue thee well, say _Iuno_ what she will. _Gan._ I am much better for your worthles loue, That will not shield me from her shrewith blowes: To day when as I fild into your cups, And held the cloath of pleasance whiles you dranke, She reacht me such a rap for that I spilde, As made the bloud run downe about mine eares. _Iup._ What? dares she strike the darling of my thoughts? By _Saturnes_ soule, and this earth threatning aire, That shaken thrise, makes Natures buildings quake, I vow, if she but once frowne on thee more, To hang her meteor like twixt heauen and earth, And bind her hand and foote with golden cordes, As once I did for harming _Hercules_.