Description of a madhouse. In The Honest Whore, Part I. Act V. 2.
A Mad World, my Masters. The title of one of Middleton’s comedies, 1608.
Like birdlime, brains and all. Othello, II. 1.
‘My invention
Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frize;
It plucks out brains and all.’
[192]. But Pan is a God. Lyly’s Midas, Act IV. 1.
Materiam superabat opus. Ovid, Met., II. 5.
II. ON LYLY, MARLOW, Etc.
It is not possible to give references to thoroughly satisfactory texts of the Elizabethan dramatists for the simple reason that, unfortunately, few exist. For reading purposes the volumes of select plays in ‘The Mermaid Series’ and a few single plays in ‘The Temple Dramatists’ may be mentioned.