A select collection of old plays . bea Deceiver, Mofes a Conjurer, the Bible to contain onlyvain and idle Stories, and ail Religion to he a PoliticalDevice. Having an Intrigue with a Woman of the Townrhe one Night caught another Man with her, and rujhinginto the Room, attempted to fitab him: but the Man avoidedthe Stroke, and catching hold of MarlowV Wrifi, tuni dthe Dagger into his own Head, and hi IP d him* Anthony-Wood fays, this happened in In the Return fromParnafTus, his Char after for Wit is allow d, and forHrickednefs lamented in thefe Lines, Mar low ( i l7 ) Mat-low was happpy
A select collection of old plays . bea Deceiver, Mofes a Conjurer, the Bible to contain onlyvain and idle Stories, and ail Religion to he a PoliticalDevice. Having an Intrigue with a Woman of the Townrhe one Night caught another Man with her, and rujhinginto the Room, attempted to fitab him: but the Man avoidedthe Stroke, and catching hold of MarlowV Wrifi, tuni dthe Dagger into his own Head, and hi IP d him* Anthony-Wood fays, this happened in In the Return fromParnafTus, his Char after for Wit is allow d, and forHrickednefs lamented in thefe Lines, Mar low ( i l7 ) Mat-low was happpy in his Bufkind Mufe,Alas! unhappy in his Life and End :Pity it is that Wit fo ill ihould dwell,Wit lent from Heaven, but Vices fent from HelL This Tragedy was aSled by the Earl of Pembroke^Servants, but not printed till 1598. The reji of hisFlays are3 The Tragical Hiftory of Dr. Faufus, theJew of Malta, Lulls Dominion, or the LafciviousQueen, Maffacre of Paris, and Tamburlain the Great,«>r the Scythian Shepherd, in two Farts*. Dramatis I nS ]
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