Chapter IX: Part 9

"Caitiff" back again in your throat! and "gross nothing" to boot--may you have it to live upon for a month, and die mad and starving! Would'st swear my life away so lightly? Tut! who was he? I could always find the soundings of a quart tankard, or empty a pasty in half his time, and swear as rare oaths between whiles--who was he? I too ha' write my odes and Pindar jigs with the twinkling of a bedpost, to the sound of the harp and hurdygurdy, while Capricornus wagged his fiery beard; I ha' sung songs to the faint moon's echoes at daybreak and danced here away and there away, like the lightning through a forest! As to your sword and dagger play, I've got the trick o' the eye and wrist--who was he? What's all his gods--his goddesses and lies?--the first a'nt worth a word; and for the two last, I was always a prince of both! "Caitiff!" and "beast!" and "nothing!"--who was he?

CHIEF OFFICER.

You're ours, for sundry villanies committed,
Sufficient each to bring your vice to an end;
The law hath got you safely in its grasp!

JACCONOT (_after a pause_).

Then may Vice and I sit crown'd in heaven, while Law and Honesty stalk damned through hell! Now do I see the thing very plain!--treachery--treachery, my masters! I know the jade that hath betrayed me--I know her. 'Slud! who cares? She was a fine woman, too--a rare person--and a good spirit; but there's an end of all now--she's turned foolish and virtuous, and a tell-tale, and I am to be turned to dust through it--long, long before my time: and these princely limbs must go make a dirt-pie--build up a mud hut--or fatten an alderman's garden! There! calf-heads--there's a lemon for your mouths! Heard'st ever such a last dying speech and confession! Write it in red ochre on a sheet of Irish, and send it to Mistress Cecily for a death-winder. I know what you've got against me--and I know you all deserve just the same yourselves--but lead on, my masters!

_Exeunt_ JACCONOT _and_ OFFICERS.

MIDDLETON.

O Marlowe! canst thou rise with power no more?
Can greatness die thus?

HEYWOOD (_bending over the body.)_

Miserable sight!

(_A shriek outside the house_).

MIDDLETON.

That cry!--what may that mean?

HEYWOOD (_as if awaking_).

I hear no cry.

MIDDLETON.

What is't comes hither, like a gust of wind?

CECILIA _rushes in_.

CECILIA.

Where--where? O, then, 'tis true--and he is dead!
All's over now--there's nothing in the world--
For he who raised my heart up from the dust,
And show'd me noble lights in mine own soul,
Has fled my gratitude and growing love--
I never knew how deep it was till now!
Through me, too!--do not curse me!--I was the cause--
Yet do not curse me--No! no! not the cause,
But that it happen'd so. This is the reward
Of Marlowe's love!--why, why did I delay?
O, gentlemen, pray for me! I have been
Lifted in heavenly air--and suddenly
The arm that placed me, and with strength sustain'd me,
Is snatch'd up, starward: I can neither follow,
Nor can I touch the gross earth any more!
Pray for me, gentlemen!--but breathe no blessings--
Let not a blessing sweeten your dread prayers--
I wish no blessings--nor could bear their weight;
For I am left, I know not where or how:
But, pray for me--my soul is buried here.

(_Sinks down upon the body._)

MIDDLETON.

"Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burned is Apollo's laurel bough!"

(_Solemn music._)

Dark Curtain.

FOOTNOTES:

[685] The inverted iron horns or tubes, a few of which still remain on lamp-posts and gates, were formerly used as extinguishers to the torches which were thrust into them.

INDEX TO THE NOTES.

affects, iii. 60
again, ii. 161
a-good, ii. 49
air of life, ii. 217
Albertus, i. 220.
Alcides' post, i. 105
a-life, iii. 175
Alleyn, Edward, ii. 6
Almain rutters, i. 112
amorous, i. 121
Antwerp, blockade of, i. 217
aphorisms, i. 213
appointed, ii. 190
approve, iii. 263
Aquarius, iii. 279
_Arden of Feversham_, quoted, ii. 89
argins, i. 149
Ariosto, incident taken from, i. 177
artier, i. 45
axes, iii. 255
azur'd, i. 276

bable, iii. 299
Badgeth, i. 115
baiting, iii. 99
ballace, ii. 335
bandy, ii. 125
Banks' horse, iii. 232
Barabas' nose, ii. 47
basilisks, i. 67
bassoes, i. 48
bastones, i. 57
bevers, i. 246
bezzling, iii. 247
bid a base, ii. 191
bill, i. 213
bird-bolt, iii. 96
blazing star, iii. 225
block, iii. 226
blubbered, i. 85
bombards, ii. 105
border, iii. 129
boss, i. 62
Boulogne, taking of, iii. 224
Bourne, Vincent, his _Cantatrices_, iii. 238
bousing-glass, iii. 247
brave, i. 21
braves, ii. 175
Brest, expedition against, iii. 239
Britainy, ii. 10
bugs, i. 164
bullets wrapt in fire, ii. 40
burn, iii. 234
by, ii. 14

Cadiz, expedition against, iii. 48
carbonadoes, i. 79
case, i. 246
cast, ii. 165
Catullus imitated, iii. 89
catzery, ii. 89
cavaliero, i. 141
cazzo, ii. 75
centronel, ii. 328
champion, i. 32
channel (collar-bone), i. 125
channel (gutter), ii. 127
cleapt, iii. 98
cleys, iii. 279
clift, i. 206
clout, i. 37
coated, iii. 314
coll, ii. 354
colts, i. 180
competitor, i. 25
confits, iii. 85
convertite, ii. 22
counterfeit, i. 51
counterscarfs, iii. 228
covent, ii. 78
covered way, i. 149
Creusa's crown, allusion to, ii. 207
cross, ii. 52
cross-biting, ii. 89
cullions, ii. 148
curst, iii. 225
custom, ii. 13
cypress, iii. 51

Damasco, i. 84
Damascus walls, i. 87
damned, i. 204
dang'd, iii. 37
Daniel, Samuel, allusions to, iii. 232, 242
debasement of coinage, iii. 225
defend, ii. 272
deserved, ii. 190
Devil (he that eats with the Devil had need of a long spoon), ii. 67
die, ii. 119
Dis, iii. 36
discoloured, iii. 10
dittany, ii. 205
double cannons, i. 252
Drayton, Michael, allusion to, iii. 228

earns, ii. 202
ecues, ii. 244
elephant, object of wonder, iii. 217
Elze, Dr. Karl, emendation by, ii. 364
enginous, iii. 52
entrance, ii. 252
erring, i. 223
exercise, ii. 84
exhibition, ii. 280
exocoetus, ii. 154
eyas, iii. 62
eye, by the, ii. 68
eyelids of the day, ii. 38

falc'nets, i. 152
false-brays, iii. 228
fancy, ii. 339
far-fet, ii. 344
favour, iii. 97
fawns, iii. 92
fet, iii. 268
few, in, ii. 68
fleering, ii. 161
fleet, i. 61
flour, iii. 11
flying-fish, ii. 154
foil (check), i. 64
foil (stain), i. 170
foreslow, ii. 167
frost of 1564, iii. 224

gabions, i. 154
garboils, iii. 255
Gascoigne, George, iii. 226
gaunt, iii. 236
gear, i. 31
give arms, i. 164
glorious, i. 70
gobbets, iii. 111
grate, iii. 215
guess, i. 313
Guilpin's _Skialetheia_ quoted, iii. 214, 238
Guise, the, ii. 9

had I wist, ii. 172
halcyon's bill, ii. 12
Hammon, Master Thomas, ii. 4
Harington, Sir John, his _Ajax_, iii. 231;
his dog Bungey, iii. 245
harness, ii. 324
Hatton, Sir Christopher, his monument, iii. 217
haught, ii. 176
Havre, expedition against, iii. 224
hay, ii. 122
head (to head, to head!), iii. 241
hebon, ii. 68
held in hand, ii. 61
Hermoso piarer, etc., ii. 38
het, iii. 47
hey-pass, i. 266
Heywood, John, iii. 231
hold a wolf by the ears, ii. 212
horsebread, i. 257
horse-courser, i. 264
hugy, i. 59
Hunkes, Harry, iii. 242

I, old spelling for _ay_, i. 78. (The form _I_ has been retained,
perhaps unnecessarily, throughout.)
imbast, iii. 192
impartial, ii. 60
imperance, iii. 55
imprecations, i. 85
incontinent, i. 11
incony, ii. 93
injury (verb), i. 16
intire, iii. 49
investion, i. 16
ippocras, i. 256
Irish kerns, ii. 160

jesses, ii. 155
jig, ii. 161
John the Great, i. 128
Jubalter, i. 128
Judas, ii. 95

keend, ii. 372
keep, ii. 245
Knave's acre, i. 229
knights of the post, iii. 128
known of, i. 266

lake, ii. 226
lanch, i. 22
Lantchidol, i. 114
lawnds, ii. 312
leaguer, i. 127
leave, ii. 327
Lepidus, his printed dog, iii. 245
let, i. 80
liefest, ii. 373
lightly borne, iii. 107
linstock, ii. 107
Lopez, Doctor, i. 266
love-lock, iii. 226
lown, ii. 135

mails, i. 22
malgrado, ii. 169
malice (verb), i. 15
mandrake juice, ii. 99
March beer, i. 247
Martlemas beef, i. 247
mate, i. 13, 211
measures, i. 188
merchants, i. 24
mere, iii. 44
merit, iii. 266
Milton quoted, ii. 38; iii. 22
minions, i. 152
miss, i. 173
Mithridate, i. 89
moorish fool, iii. 50
More, Sir Thomas, allusion to a Latin epigram by, iii. 235
Moroccus, i. 58
mottoes at the end of plays, i. 283
Mount Falcon, ii. 253
mounted his chariot, i. 183
muschatoes, ii. 84
Muse (masculine), i. 211
muted, iii. 241

neck-verse, ii. 83
need, i. 119
nepenthe, iii. 234
nephew, ii. 329
no way but one, i. 92
nymph, ii. 360

old Edward, ii. 218
on cai me on, i. 213
ostry, i. 267
other some, iii. 85
Ovid imitated, i. 25
packed, ii. 359
paised, iii. 25
parbreak, i. 95
Paris-Garden, iii. 241
pash, i. 59
pass, i. 13
Paul's churchyard, iii. 251
Paul's steeple struck by lightning, iii. 225
pentacle, iii. 45
Perkins, Richard, ii. 6.
Petrarch's _Itinerarium Syriacum_ quoted, i. 250
pheres, iii. 66
pickadevaunts, i. 228
pilling, i. 65
pin, i. 37
pioners, i. 50
pitch, i. 28
places, ii. 258
plage, i. 83
plat, iii. 81
plates, ii. 44
platform, ii. 363
Plato's year, i. 74
play the man, i. 159
play-houses, hours of performance at, iii. 238.
Pont Neuf, iii. 236
porcupine darting her quills, ii. 121
port, i. 30
portagues, ii. 28
prest, i. 116
pretend (_i.e._ portend), ii. 64
pretend (_i.e._ intend), ii. 104
prevail, i. 141
prize played, ii. 7
proin, iii. 66
prorex, i. 12
purchase, i. 42
put by, iii. 17

quenchless, ii. 323
qui mihi discipulus, i. 229
quit, ii. 367
quite, ii. 282
quod tumeraris, i. 224

racking, i. 179
ray, iii. 180
ream, ii. 88
rebated, i. 177
reflex, i. 50
regiment, i. 13
renied, Christians, i. 48
renowned, i. 24
resolve, i. 13
respect, ii. 142
retorqued, i. 94
Rhamnus, i. 35
Rhodes, i. 212
ringled, iii. 29
rising in the North, iii. 224
rivelled, ii. 334; iii. 124
Rivo-Castiliano, ii. 92
road, ii. 160
rod, i. 122
rombelow, with a, ii. 161
ruinate, ii. 244
run division, ii. 88
running banquet, ii. 86
rushes, rooms strewed with, iii. 27

Sabans, ii. 11
Sackarson, iii. 242
St. Quentin, storming of, iii. 224
sakers, i. 152
sarell, i. 58
saunce, iii. 127
saying, ii. 44
scald, i. 31
scambled, ii. 16
scenes, i. 215
scholarism, i. 212
schright, iii. 275
sciomancy, i. 218
sect, ii. 28
set, ii. 249
Seven deadly Sins, i. 245
shadow, ii. 175
Shakespeare quoted, i. 16, 18, 25, 29, 31, 46, 92, 97, 167, 254, 266,
275; ii. 12, 16, 36, 37, 40, 41, 44, 60, 68, 84, 86, 99, 128, 142,
158, 193, 218, 228, 304, 326; iii. 9, 12, 15, 24, 27, 31, 41, 50, 65,
89, 234
shaver, ii. 45
Shelley quoted, i. 155, 206
shine, iii. 106
silverlings, ii. 11
Skelton imitated, iii. 59
slick, i. 265
slop, i. 230
slubber, iii. 65
smell-feast, iii. 239
snicle, ii. 92
soil, ii. 343
sollars, ii. 76
sometimes, ii. 31
sonnet, i. 253
sort, ii. 288
souse, iii. 264
Spenser quoted in _Tamburlaine_, i. 183. (I neglected to point out
that in i. 173, "As when an herd of lusty Cymbrian bulls," &c., there
is an imitation of a passage of the _Faerie Queene_, Book I. canto
viii.--

"As great a noyse, as when in Cymbrian plaine
An heard of Bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting
Do for the milkie mothers want complaine,
And fill the fields with troublous bellowing,
The neighbour woods around with hollow murmur ring.")

spials, i. 32
sprung, iii. 64
staring up, hair, iii. 89
stated, ii. 39
states, i. 14
statua, i. 142
stature, i. 74
staves acre, i. 229
stems, i. 24
stern, ii. 365
stomach, ii. 129
stools on the stage, iii. 215
stoops, i. 169
strain, i. 155
subject, i. 203
supprised, ii. 306
sure, made, ii. 50
sweating sickness, iii. 224

taint, i. 122
take in, iii. 239
talents, i. 46
tall, i. 167
_tanti_, ii. 120
taxing private, iii. 213
Theatre and Curtain playhouses, iii. 218
Theocritus imitated, iii. 61
thirling, iii. 9
tho, iii. 107
three for one, iii. 240
timeless, ii. 128
tires, i. 47
to, ii. 74
tobacco, Bobadil's encomium of, iii. 235
tobacco smoked on the stage, iii. 231
topless, i. 275
tottered, ii. 89
toy, iii. 86
train, ii. 183
trannels, iii. 134
Trier, i. 250
true, true, ii. 127
Turk of tenpence, ii. 84
twigger, ii. 362
Tyrone's insurrection, iii. 244

unresisted, ii. 339
unvalued, i. 18
ure, ii. 48

vail, ii. 39
valure, iii. 80
valurous, i. 20
Vanity, Lady, ii. 45
vaut, i. 23
villainese, i. 95
villainy, i. 52
Vulcan's dancing, ii. 304

wagers laid about actors, ii. 7
wall'd in, ii. 304
water-work at London Bridge, iii. 217
watery star, iii. 9
when? ii. 63
when? can you tell? ii. 171
while, i. 80
whist, ii. 349
Wigmore, ii. 162
will, i. 136
winter's tale, ii. 36

Wordsworth, his _Power of Music_, iii. 238
wreaks, iii. 160

Zoacum, i. 135

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Transcriber's Notes:

Page 164: In amicam, quod abortivum ipsa fecrrit. Typo for fecerit. Changed.

Footnote 350: Not in Islam. Typo for 'Isham' as elsewhere. Changed.

Footnote 381: So eds. B, C.--Islam. Typo for 'Isham'. Changed.

Footnote 462: In his close nips describde a gull to thee: Possible typo 'describde for described'. Unchanged.

Page 272: Or, dropping-ripe, ready to fall with urin. Probable typo for ruin. Changed.

Page 351: a'nt for ain't. Unchanged.

Various: u and v may be reversed. i and j may be reversed.

The index applies to all three volumes.

Elegia V missing. See Footnote 368.