37 “I consider myself bound to believe, till some positive proof be produced to the contrary, that Dido was completed for the stage by Nash after the decease of Marlowe.”
—Dyce’s Marlowe, p. 36.
“But Chapman had also been busy with a continuation of Marlowe’s ‘half-told tale.’”
—Dyce’s Marlowe, p. 42.
38. “It is a comfort to know that the ruffian who drew up the charges, a certain ‘Rychard Bame’, was hanged at Tyburn on 6th December, 1594. Doubtless Bame was backed by some person or persons of power and position. It was a deliberate attempt on the part of some fanatics to induce the public authorities to institute a prosecution for blasphemy against the poet.”
—Bullen’s Marlowe, p. 69.
39 The passage which, upon being read by the condemned, would entitle him to liberation. See Benefit of Clergy.
40 In Watts v. Brains, 2 Croke, 778, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty, but were sent back and brought in a verdict of guilty. The defendant was hanged and the jury fined.
41. For evidence of similarity in rhythm, diction and thought read the parallel passages at the heads of each chapter of this book.
42 “Black is the beauty of the brightest day;
The golden ball of Heaven’s eternal fire,
That danced with glory on the silver waves,
Now wants the fuel that inflamed his beams;
And all for faintness and for foul disgrace,
He blinds his temples with a frowning cloud,
Ready to darken earth with endless night.”
—II Tamburlaine, II, 5.