The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 (of 3)Marlowe, Christopher
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Marlowe, Christopher
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
[441] "Donec regina sacerdos
Marte gravis geminam partu dabit Ilia prolem."
irg. _Æn._ i. 273.
[442] Probably a misspelling of "eternise."
[443] Business.
[444] The scene shifts to a wood near the sea-shore.
[445] Old ed. "Cimodoæ."--Cf. Virgil, _Æn._ i. 144.
[446] Old ed. "thee."
[447] "Vos et Scyllaeam rabiem penitusque sonantes
Accestis scopulos, vos et Cyclopia saxa
Experti: revocate animos, maestumque timorem Mittite."
--Virgil, _Æn._ i. 200-203.
[448] Old ed. "cunning."
[449] Cf. _Titus Andronicus_, iii. 2 (a great part of which I attribute
to Marlowe):--
"Thou _map of woe_ that thus dost talk in signs" (l. 12).
[450] Old ed. "aire."
[451] From this point to the end of the scene Marlowe follows Virgil
very closely.--Cf. Æn. i. 321-410.
[452] Old ed. "Turen."
[453] Greene (in _Orlando Furioso_) uses the same form:--
"Thou see'st that Mador and Angelica
Are still so secret in their private walks,
As that they trace the shady _lawnds._"
[454] "Quid natum totiens, crudelis tu quoque, falsis
Ludis imaginibus."
Virg. _Æn_. i. 407-8.
[455] Scene: Carthage.
[456] Old ed. "Cloanthes."
[457] For what follows cf. Virg. _Æn._ i. 524-78.
[458] The expression "buckle with" occurs twice in _1 Henry VI._, and
once in _3 Henry VI._: nowhere in Shakespeare's undoubted plays.
[459] Old ed. "Vausis."
[460] Dyce proposes "all" for "shall." Retaining "shall" the sense is
"we would hope to reunite your kindness in such a way as shall," &c.
[461] Scene: Juno's temple at Carthage.
[462] Virgil represents the tale of Troy depicted on a fresco in Juno's
temple.
[463] Perhaps a misprint for "tears."
[464] Æneas is not shrouded in a cloud, as the reader (remembering
Virgil) might at first suppose. Ilioneus fails to recognise Æneas in his
mean apparel.
[465] Old ed. "meanes."
[466] We must suppose that the scene changes to Dido's palace.
[467] Old ed. "viewd."
[468] "An odd mistake on the part of the poet; similar to that which is
attributed to the Duke of Newcastle in Smollet's _Humphry Clinker_ (vol.
i. 236, ed. 1783), where his grace is made to talk about 'thirty
thousand French _marching_ from Acadia to Cape Breton.' (The following
passage of Sir J. Harington's _Orlando Furioso_ will hardly be thought
sufficient to vindicate our author from the imputation of a blunder in
geography:
'Now had they lost the sight of Holland shore,
And _marcht_ with gentle gale in comely ranke,' &c.
B. x. st. 16.)"--_Dyce_.
The passage of Harington seems to amply vindicate Marlowe.
[469] This epithet alone would show that the passage is Marlowe's.--Cf.
_Edward II._ v. i. l. 44,
"Heaven turn it to a blaze of _quenchless fire_!"
[470] We have had the expression "ring of pikes" in _2 Tamburlaine_,
iii. 2. l. 99.
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