"To write no more of that whence shame doth grow
Or tie my pen to penny-knaves delight,
But live with fame and so for fame to write."
[1169] Nat. Dict. Biog., art. Lodge.
[1170] Fleay, Life of Shakesp., p. 98. Mr. Fleay, conjecturing that Lodge was associated with Marlowe in the attack upon Greene's unsuccessful heroic play, and that Lodge is satirized under the (Perymedes) mention of the "mad preest," assigns the L.-G. to a later date. But we find no evidence of coolness between Lodge and Greene during 1588 and 1589. On the contrary, Lodge prefixes to the Span. Masquer. (S. R. February 1, 1589), verses calling Greene his doux ami and compagnon de Dieux, and rejoices to be associated with his fame. The friendship was still fresh when Greene died. Lodge was not the "mad preest." Nor can I adopt Mr. Fleay's other conjecture (Biog. Chron. II. 31) that the "preest" was Hieronimo.
[1171] The direction A band, etc., might well follow close upon "tempt you me?" of line 1764. The passage, ll. 1764-1782, interrupts a scene otherwise sufficient to itself, with a pageant of supernumeraries whose utterance is a veritable "fa-burden." The bit looks almost like an afterthought, aping Marlowan style; but it is manifest Greene, not Lodge.
[1172] For the distribution of authorship, see note 3, p. 405.
[1173] Lines 80-116, 481-508.
[1174] Grosart, XIII. vii., and Arber's S. R. there quoted.
[1175] By the author of The Defence of Connycatching.