[395] The allusion is to Daniel's _Complaint of Rosamond_, 1592, and to Michael Drayton's _Complaint of Gaveston_, 1593. I cannot discover any abuse of Daniel or Drayton in Hall's Satires. I have elsewhere suggested (Marlowe, iii. 243) that Marston is here glancing at Sir John Davies' forty-fifth epigram, in which a conceit from Daniel's _Rosamond_ is ridiculed. [396] A sneer at Hall, who left Cambridge (soon to return), before completing his course, to take temporary work as a schoolmaster, as he relates in _Some Specialities of the Life of Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich_ (Works, ed. Wynter, 1. xxiv). [397] The satirist is Hall, who wrote in the third satire of Book iv. of _Virgidem_:-- "Ventrous Fortunio his farm hath sold And gads to _Guiane_ land to fish for gold." [398] Marston is ridiculing Hall's _Defiance to Envy_, prefixed to _Virgidem_.:-- "Or would we loose her plumy pinion, Manacled long with bonds of modest fear, Soon might she have those kestrels proud outgone Whose flighty wings are dew'd with weeter [_sic_] air; And hopen now to _shoulder from above The eagle from the stairs of friendly Jove_. "Or list she rather in late triumph rear Eternal trophies to some conqueror Whose dead deserts slept in his sepulchre, And never saw nor life nor light before, To lead sad Pluto captive with my song To grace the triumphs he obscured so long, &c." [399] It is not improbable that Hall published an early volume of pastorals which is now unknown. See Corser's _Collectanea_, vii. 134. In _Virgidem_. vi. 1. ll. 175-184 ("Shall the controller of proud Nemesis, &c."), Hall replies to Marston's raillery. [400] Edward Guilpin in his sixth Satire (_Skialetheia_, 1598, sig. E. V.) alludes to Marston's _Reactio_:-- "The double-volum'd satire praised is And liked of divers for his rods in piss, Yet other some who would her credit crack, Have clapp'd Reactio's action on her back." The expression "rods in piss" is used in reference to Sat. i. l. 44. of the _Scourge of Villainy_. "Double-volum'd satire" seems to refer to Hall's two collections of Satires; but the passage is obscure. SATIRE V. _Parva magna, magna nulla._