Tost with the salt waves of the wasteful seas? To make your tombs, and mourn upon your hearses; The happy vessels that enclose your bones) And (when my soul earth's prison shall forego) Non prosunt domino, quæ prosunt omnibus, artes. THO. KYD. FINIS. EDITIONS. 1. Cornelia. At London, Printed by James Roberts, for N. L. and John Busbie, 1594, 4to. 2. Pompey the Great, his faire Cornelia's Tragedie: Effected by her Father and Husbandes downe-cast, death, and fortune. Written in French by that excellent Poet Ro. Garnier, and translated into English by Thomas Kid. At London, Printed for Nicholas Ling, 1595, 4to. CHRISTOPHER MARLOW, a writer of considerable eminence in his time, was, according to Oldys', born in the former part of the reign of Edward the Sixth, and received his education at Cambridge. The place of his birth is unknown, as are the circumstances of his parents, and the reason which induced him to quit the destination for which by the nature of his education he seemed to be intended. After leaving the university, he appeared upon the stage with applause as an actor, and then commenced dramatick writer with no inconsiderable degree of reputation. His character as a man does not appear in a favourable light. He is represented by an author quoted in Wood's Athenæ, p. 338, as "giving too large a swing to his own wit, "and suffering his lust to have the full reins, by which "means he fell to that outrage and extremity as 2 Jodelle, a French tragical poet, did (being an Epicure "and Atheist), that he denied God and his Son Christ, "and not only in word blasphemed the Trinity, but "also, as was credibly reported, wrote divers discourses "against it, affirming our Saviour to be a deceiver, and "Moses to be a conjuror; the holy Bible also to contain only vain and idle sories, and all religion but a device "of policy." A late writer is willing to believe, 66 1 MS. Additions of Langbaine. 2 Beard's Theatre of God's Judgments. Among the papers of Lord Keeper Puckering, in the British Museum, are some which give an account of Marlow's principles and tenets. Since the account of Marlow was written I, have seen the information of Richard Baine against him, now in the British Museum, Harl. MSS. No. 6853, in which he is charged with the offences mentioned by Beard and many others. In a marginal note it is said to have been delivered on Whitson-eve, and that in three days after Marlow came to a sudden and fearful end of his |