The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3). Christopher Marlowe
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Some eds. give "For as she was."
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A magical figure formed of intersected triangles. It was supposed to preserve the wearer from the assaults of demons. "Disparent would seem to mean that the five points of the ornaments radiated distinctly one from the other."—
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Old eds. "her."
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Heated.
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Old eds. "how."
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Substance, as opposed to spirit. Cf. note. Vol. i., 203.
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Cadiz, which was taken in June 21, 1596, by the force under the joint command of Essex and Howard of Effingham.
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So the Isham copy.—The other old eds. read "townes," for which Dyce gives "town."
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Within.
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Vent forth.
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"Fowl" and "fool" had the same pronunciation. Cf.
The "moorish fool" is explained by the allusion to the lapwing, two lines above. (The lapwing was supposed to draw the searcher from her nest by crying in other places. "The lapwing cries most furthest from her nest."—
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A kind of crape.
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So the modern editors for an "imitating."
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Ingenious. Chapman has the form "enginous" in his translation of the Odyssey, i. 452,
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Some modern editors unnecessarily give "With
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Old eds. "joys."
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Old eds. "he."
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Some eds. give "For such a Hero."
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Command.
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Picture.
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"This conceit was suggested to Chapman by a passage in Skelton's
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Affections.
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"This description of the fisherman, as well as the picture which follows it, are borrowed (with alterations) from the first
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"Eyas" is the name for an unfledged hawk. "Eyas thoughts" would mean "thoughts not yet full-grown,—immature." Dyce thinks the meaning of "eyas" here may be "restless." (Old eds. "yas.")
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A monosyllable.
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Some eds. give "them, then they burned as blood."
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Approaching catastrophe.
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Some eds. "and."
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Used transitively.
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Some eds. "Leanders."
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Shakespeare uses the verb "slubber" in the sense of "perform in a slovenly manner" (
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Companions, yoke-mates.
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Gr. ἡδονη.
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From Lat.
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Prune.
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Gr. λευκοτης.
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Gr. δαψιλης.
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Some eds. read "Coyne and impure."
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From Gr. οικτος?
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Some eds. "in."
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"A compound, probably, from ερως and νοσος or νουσος
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Some modern editors read "sat."
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Singer suggested "Alcmaeon."
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"Chapman has a passage very similar to this in his
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"Old eds. 'prayes,' 'praies,' 'preies,' and 'pryes.'"—
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Dyce reads "enthrill'd" (a word that I do not remember to have seen).
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Did make to spring. Cf. Fourth Sestiad, l. 169.
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So the Isham copy. All other editions omit the words "the blood."
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"Valure" is frequently found as a form of "value;" but I suspect, with Dyce, that it is here put (
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Plot.
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Gr. αδολεσχης.
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Some eds. "price."
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Gr. ἁγνεια
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Singer gives a reference to Pausan, x. 5.—Old eds. "Phemonor" and "Phemoner."
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Comfits.
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"Other some" is a not uncommon form of expression. See Halliwell's
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Old eds. "their."
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Old eds. "his."
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A sudden pettishness or freak of fancy. Cf.
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Former editors have not noticed that Chapman is here closely imitating Catullus'
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Some eds. "starting." Cf.
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"Old eds. 'much-rong,' 'much rongd,' and 'much-wrong'd.'"—
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It should be