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Title: Hero and Leander and Other Poems

Author: Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman

Editor: Ernest Rhys

Release Date: January 14, 2007 [EBook #20356]

Language: English - Latin

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HERO AND LEANDER

AND OTHER POEMS

BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

CONTENTS

Hero and Leander, by Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman

Minor poems by Christopher Marlowe

- The Passionate Shepherd To His Love

- Fragment, first printed in "England's Parnassus," 1600

- In obitum honoratissimi viri, Rogeri Manwood, militis,
Quaestorii Reginalis Capitalis Baronis

- Dialogue in Verse

HERO AND LEANDER

By Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman

TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL SIR THOMAS
WALSINGHAM, KNIGHT.

Sir, we think not ourselves discharged of the duty we owe
to our friend when we have brought the breathless body to
the earth; for, albeit the eye there taketh his ever-farewell
of that beloved object, yet the impression of the man that
hath been dear unto us, living an after-life in our memory,
there putteth us in mind of farther obsequies due unto the
deceased; and namely of the performance of whatsoever we
may judge shall make to his living credit and to the effecting
of his determinations prevented by the stroke of death.
By these meditations (as by an intellectual will) I suppose
myself executor to the unhappily deceased author of this
poem; upon whom knowing that in his lifetime you bestowed
many kind favours, entertaining the parts of reckoning and
worth which you found in him with good countenance and
liberal affection, I cannot but see so far into the will of him
dead, that whatsoever issue of his brain should chance to
come abroad, that the first breath it should take might be
the gentle air of your liking; for, since his self had been
accustomed thereunto, it would prove more agreeable and
thriving to his right children tha