testefy the same:_ _and, as I thincke, all men in
christianitei ought to endevor that the mouth of so dangerous a member
may be stopped._

_He sayeth moreover that he hath coated[684] a number of contrarieties
out of the scriptures, which he hath geeven to some great men, who in
convenient tyme shalbe named. When theis thinges shalbe called in
question, the witnesses shalbe produced._

RYCHARD BAME.

(Endorsed)

_Copye of Marloes blasphemyes
as sent to her H[ighness]._

[Now-a-days inquiries as to the age of the earth are of interest only to
Geologists; and all may criticise with impunity the career of
Moses--provided that they do not employ the shafts of ridicule too
freely. Marlowe's strictures on the New Testament--grossly exaggerated
by the creature who penned the charges--were made from the literary
point of view. We should blame nobody to-day for saying that the
language of Revelations is poor and thin when compared with the language
of Isaiah. Again, as to the statement that Romanism alone is logical,
and that Protestantism has no _locus standi_,--has not the doctrine been
proclaimed again and again in our own day by writers whom we all
respect? The charge that Marlowe had announced his intention of coining
French crowns is so utterly absurd as to throw discredit upon all the
other statements. It must be remembered that the testimony was not upon
oath, and that the deponent was a ruffian.]

FOOTNOTES:

[680] This is the original title, which has been partly scored through
to make way for the following title:--_A Note delivered on Whitson eve
last of the most horrible blasphemes utteryd by Christofer Marly who
within iii dayes after came to a soden and fearfull end of his life._

[681] Words printed in italics are scored through in the MS.

[682] Where _lacunae_ occur the clauses are unfit for publication.

[683] In the margin are the words "he is layd for,"--_i.e._, steps are
being taken for his apprehension.

[684] Quoted.

No. IV.

An edition of Marlowe cannot be more fitly concluded than by a reprint
of Mr. R. H. Horne's noble and pathetic tragedy, _The Death of Marlowe_
(originally published in 1837), one of the few dramatic pieces of the
present century that will have any interest for posterity. For
permission to reprint this tragedy I am indebted to Mr. Horne's literary
executor, Mr. H. Buxton Forman.

THE DEATH OF MARLO