GENTLEMAN.

GENTLEMAN.

Why, how now, sweet Nan! I hope you jest.

NAN.*
No, by my troth, I love the fool the best :
And, if you be jealous, God give you good-night!
I fear you're a gelding, you caper so light.

I thought she had jested and meant but a fable,
But now do I see she hath play'[a] with his bable.
I wish all my friends by me to take heed,
That a fool come not near you when you mean

to speed.

IN OBITUM+ HONORATISSIMI VIRI, ROGERI MANWOOD, MILITIS, QUÆSTORII

REGINALIS CAPITALIS BARONIS.

NOCTIVAGI terror, ganeonis triste flagellum, Plange! fori lumen, venerandæ gloria legis,
Et Jovis Alcides, rigido vulturque latroni, Occidit: heu, secum effoetas Acherontis ad oras
Urnâ subtegitur. Scelerum, gaudete, nepotes ! Multa abiit virtus. Pro tot virtutibus uni,
Insons, luctificâ sparsis cervice capillis,

Livor, parce viro; non audacissimus esto

Illius in cineres, cujus tot millia vultus * Nan) MS. “Won." (i. e. Wench).

Mortalium attonuit: sic cum te nuntia Ditis In obitum, &c.] This epitaph was first printed by Vulneret exsanguis, feliciter ossa quiescant, Mr. Collier (History of the English Stage, &c. p. xliv - Famaque marmorei superet monumenta sepulcri. prefixed to the first vol. of his Shakespeare) from a M8. on the back of the title-page of a copy of Hero and Leander, ed. 1629, where it is subscribed with Marlowe's name.-For a notice of Sir Roger Manwood, see Account

* bable) i. e. bauble. of Marlone and his Writings.

APPENDICES.

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APPENDICES.

No. I.

THE ATHEIST'S TRAGEDIE.

[See Account of Karlove and his Writings. This ballad is printed from a manuscript copy tu che possession of Mr. J. P. Collier.)