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Old eds. "crau'd." [31] Some eds. give "O, none have power but gods." [32] "In ages and countries where mechanical ingenuity has but few outlets it exhausts itself in the constructions of bits, each more peculiar in form or more torturing in effect than that which has preceded it. I have seen collections of these instruments of torments, and among them some of which Marlowe's curious adjective would have been highly descriptive. It may be, however, that the word is 'ring-led,' in which shape it would mean guided by the ring on each side like a snaffle."--_Cunningham._ [33] Some eds. give "so faire and kind." Cf. _Othello_, iv. 2-- "O thou wind Who art so _lovely-fair_ and smell'st so sweet." [34] Ed. 1613 and later eds. "upstarting." [35] Fetched [36] Some eds. give "shallow." [37] In the old eds. this line and the next stood after l. 300. The transposition was made by Singer in the edition of 1821. [38] Old eds.--"then ... displaid," and in the next line "laid." [39] Old eds. "heare" and "haire." [40] Old eds. "glympse." [41] Pluto was frequently identified by the Greeks with Plutus. [42] Old eds. "day bright-bearing car." [43] Dinged, dashed. Some eds. give "hurled."--Here Marlowe's share ends. THE EPISTLE[44] DEDICATORY TO MY BEST ESTEEMED AND WORTHILY HONOURED LADY THE LADY WALSINGHAM, ONE OF THE LADIES OF HER MAJESTY'S BED-CHAMBER. I present your ladyship with the last affections of the first two Lovers that ever Muse shrined in the Temple of Memory; being drawn by strange instigation to employ some of my serious time in so trifling a subject, which yet made the first Author, divine Musaeus, eternal. And were it not that we must subject our accounts of these common received conceits to servile custom, it goes much against my hand to sign that for a trifling subject on which more worthiness of soul hath been shewed, and weight of divine wit, than can vouchsafe residence in the leaden gravity of any money-monger; in whose profession all serious subjects are concluded. But he that shuns trifles must shun the world; out of whose reverend heaps of substance and austerity I can and will ere long single or tumble out as brainless and passionate fooleries as ever panted in the bosom of the most ridiculous lover. Accept it, therefore, good Madam, though as a trifle, yet as a serious argument of my affection; for to be thought thankf
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