Leander, which was afterwards finished by George
Chapman, who fell short, as it is said, of the spirit and invention of
Marloe in the execution of it.

What credit may be due to Mr. Wood's severe representation of this
poet's character, the reader must judge for himself. For my part, I am
willing to suspend my judgment till I meet with some other testimony
of his having thus heinously offended against his God, and against the
best and most amiable system of Religion that ever was, or ever can
be: Marloe might possibly be inclined to free-thinking, without
running the unhappy lengths that Mr. Wood tells us, it was reported he
had done. We have many instances of characters being too lightly taken
up on report, and mistakenly represented thro' a too easy credulity;
especially against a man who may happen to differ from us in some
speculative points, wherein each party however, may think himself
Orthodox: The good Dr. Clarke himself, has been as ill spoken of as
Wood speaks of Marloe.

His other works are

1. Dr. Faustus, his tragical history printed in 4to. London, 1661.

2. Edward the Second, a Tragedy, printed in 4to. London--when this
play was acted is not known.

3. Jew of Malta, a Tragedy played before the King and Queen at
Whitehall, 1633. This play was in much esteem in those days; the Jew's
part being performed by Mr. Edward Alleyn, the greatest player of his
time, and a man of real piety and goodness; he founded and endowed
Dulwich hospital in Surry; he was so great an actor, that Betterton,
the Roscius of the British nation, used to acknowledge that he owed to
him those great attainments of which he was master.

4. Lust's Dominion; or the Lascivious Queen, published by Mr. Kirkman,
8vo. London, 1661. This play was altered by Mrs. Behn, and acted
under, the title of the Moor's Revenge.

5. Massacre of Paris, with the death of the Duke of Guise, a Tragedy,
played by the Right Honourable the Lord Admiral's servants. This play
is divided into acts; it begins with the fatal marriage between the
King of Navarre, and Margurete de Valois, sister to King Charles IX;
the occasion of the massacre, and ends with the death of Henry III of
France.

6. Tamerlain the Great; or the Scythian Shepherd, a Tragedy in two
parts, printed in an old black letter, 8vo. 1593. This is said to be
the worst of his productions.

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ROBERT GREEN

Received his education at the university of