[431]The chief character in Schiller's "Robbers," a virtuous brigand and redresser of wrongs.—Tr.
[432] For in a field, whose superficies
Is cover'd with a liquid purple veil,
And sprinkled with the brains of slaughter'd men.
My royal chair of state shall be advanc'd;
And he that means to place himself therein,
Must armed wade up to the chin in blood....
And I would strive to swim through pools of blood,
Or make a bridge of murder'd carcasses,
Whose arches should be fram'd with bones of Turks
Ere I would lose the title of a king.—"Tamburlaine," part II. I. 3.
[433]The editor of Marlowe's Works, Pickering, 1826, says in his Introduction: "Both the matter and style of 'Tamburlaine,' however, differ materially from Marlowe's other compositions, and doubts have more than once been suggested as to whether the play was properly assigned to him. We think that Marlowe did not write it." Dyce is of a contrary opinion.—Tr.
[434]Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta," II. p. 275 et passim.
[435]Ibid. IV. p. 311.
[436]Ibid. III. p. 291.
[437]Ibid. IV. p. 313.
[438]Up to this time, in England, poisoners were cast into a boiling caldron.
[439]In the Museum of Ghent.
[440]See in the "Jew of Malta" the seduction of Ithamore, by Bellamira, a rough, but truly admirable picture.