The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)Marlowe, Christopher
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)
Marlowe, Christopher
English poetry
'Wine is ordained to raise such hearts as sink:
Whom woful stars distemper let him drink.'"
--_Broughton._
[95] "Old eds. 'prayes,' 'praies,' 'preies,' and 'pryes.'"--_Dyce._
[96] Dyce reads "enthrill'd" (a word that I do not remember to have
seen).
[97] Did make to spring. Cf. Fourth Sestiad, l. 169.
[98] So the Isham copy. All other editions omit the words "the blood."
[99] "Valure" is frequently found as a form of "value;" but I suspect,
with Dyce, that it is here put (_metri causa_) for "valour."
[100] Plot.
[101] Gr. [Greek: adoleschÍs].
[102] Some eds. "price."
[103] Gr. [Greek: hagneia]
[104] Singer gives a reference to Pausan, x. 5.--Old eds. "Phemonor" and
"Phemoner."
[105] Comfits.
[106] "Other some" is a not uncommon form of expression. See Halliwell's
_Dict. of Archaic and Provincial Words_.
[107] Old eds. "their."
[108] Old eds. "his."
[109] A sudden pettishness or freak of fancy. Cf. _Two Noble Kinsmen_:--
"The hot horse hot as fire
_Took toy_ at this."
[110] Former editors have not noticed that Chapman is here closely
imitating Catullus' _Carmen Nuptiale_--
"Virginitas non tota tua est: ex parte parentum est:
Tertia pars patri data, pars data tertia matri,
Tertia sola tua est: noli pugnare duobus,
Qui genero sua jura simul cum dote dederunt."
[111] Some eds. "starting." Cf. _Julius CÊsar_, iv. 3, ll. 278-9--
"Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,
That makest my blood cold and my hair to _stare_?"
[112] "Old eds. 'much-rong,' 'much rongd,' and 'much-wrong'd.'"--_Dyce_
(who reads "much-wrung").
THE SIXTH SESTIAD.
_The Argument of the Sixth Sestiad._
Leucote flies to all the Winds,
And from the Fates their outrage blinds,[113]
That Hero and her love may meet.
Leander, with Love's complete fleet
Manned in himself, puts forth to seas;
When straight the ruthless Destinies,
With, AtÈ, stir the winds to war
Upon the Hellespont: their jar
Drowns poor Leander. Hero's eyes,
Wet witnesses of his surprise, 10
Her torch blown out, grief casts her down
Upon her love, and both doth drown:
In whose just ruth the god of seas
Transforms them to th' Acanthides.
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