ing an English version of
"Ecclesiastes" and a series of sonnets.]

[52] John Marston, a bold and nervous writer in Elizabeth's reign: the
work here censured was, no doubt, his "Scourge of Villanie, 3 Books of
Satyrs," 1598.

[53] Marlowe's character is well marked in these lines: he was an
excellent poet, but of abandoned morals, and of the most impious
principles; a complete libertine and an avowed atheist. He lost his life
in a riotous fray; for, detecting his servant with his mistress, he
rushed into the room with a dagger in order to stab him, but the man
warded off the blow by seizing Marlowe's wrist, and turned the dagger
into his own head: he languished some time of the wound he received, and
then died, [in] the year 1593.--_A. Wood_.

[54] [Omitted in some copies.]

[55] [Omitted in some copies.]

[56] Churchyard wrote Jane Shore's Elegy in "Mirror for Magistrates,"
4to, [1574. It is reprinted, with additions, in his "Challenge," 1593.]

[57] Isaac Walton, in his "Life of Hooker," calls Nash a man of a sharp
wit, and the master of a scoffing, satirical, merry pen. His satirical
vein was chiefly exerted in prose; and he is said to have more
effectually discouraged and nonplussed Penry, the most notorious
anti-prelate, Richard Harvey the astrologer, and their adherents, than
all serious writers who attacked them. That he was no mean poet will
appear from the following description of a beautiful woman--

"Stars fall to fetch fresh light from her rich eyes,
Her bright brow drives the sun to clouds beneath,
Her hairs' reflex with red streaks paint the skies,
Sweet morn and evening dew falls from her breath."

[58] Ital. _stocco_, or long rapier.

[59] A tusk.

[60] [Some copies read _turne_.]

[61] [John Danter, the printer. Nash, it will be remembered, was called
by Harvey _Danter's man_, because some of his books came from that
press. See the next scene.]

[62] [A few corrections have been ventured upon in the French and Latin
scraps, as the speaker does not appear to have been intended to blunder.]

[63] [Old copies, _procures_.]

[64] [Old copies, _thanked_.]

[65] [Old copies, _Fly--revengings_.]

[66] [Old copy, _gale_.]

[67] [Old copy, _gracis_.]

[68] [Old copy, _filthy_.]

[69] [Old copies, _seat_.]

[70] [In the old copy the dialogue is as usual given so as to make utter
nonsense, which was apparently not intended.]

[71] [Furor Poeticus apostrophises Apollo, t