[31] Some verses, signed “Jo. Mar.,” prefixed to Donne’s Poems, 1633, have been ascribed to Marston; but, as the heading of the verses is “Hexasticon Bibliopolæ,” and as the publisher or bibliopola was Jo[hn] Mar[riott], Marston’s claim can hardly be sustained.
ADDENDA.
Vol. i. [page 13]. “Blind Gew.”—I have come upon a mention of this actor in the fifth satire of Edward Guilpin’s Skialetheia, 1598:—
“But who’s in yonder coach? my lord and fool,
One that for ape-tricks can put Gue to school.”
Guilpin’s eleventh epigram is addressed “To Gue”:—
“Gue, hang thyself for woe, since gentlemen
Are now grown cunning in thy apishness,” &c.
[Page 15], line 17. “Heavy dryness.”—I was wrong in accepting the reading of ed. 1633 in preference to the “heathy dryness” of ed. 1602. Heathy is a Marstonian word; and we find it in act iv. of Jack Drum’s Entertainment:—
“Good faith, troth is they are all apes and gulls,
Vile imitating spirits, dry heathy turfs.”
[Page 60], line 256. Dr. Nicholson proposes “Her own heels, God knows, are not half so light”—a good emendation.
[Page 239], line 21. “Distilled oxpith,” &c.—We have a similar list of provocatives in John Mason’s Turk, first published in 1610, but written some years previously:—