Denying water to the amorous thirst. Thou taught'st fair eyes to lose The glory of their light, Restrain'd from men, and on themselves revers'd, Thou, in a lawn didst first Those golden hairs incase Late spread unto the wind. Thou madest loose grace unkind, Gav'st bridle to their words, art to their pace. Oh honour! it is thou Who mad'st that stealth which love does free allow, It is thy work that brings Our griefs and torments thus. But, thou fierce lord of nature and of love, The qualifier of kings, What dost thou here with us That art below thy power, shut from above? Go, and from us remove, Trouble the mighty's sleep, Let us neglected, base, Live still without thy grace, And th' use of th' ancient happy ages keep! Let's love! this life of ours Can make no truce with time, that all devours. SONG. [In Hymen's Triumph.] LOVE is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that most with cutting grows. Love is a torment of the mind, And Jove hath made it of a kind Not well, nor full, nor fasting: More we enjoy it, more it dies; CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Contemporary with Shakspeare, and one of the most distinguished tragic poets of his age. He translated, in 1587, Coluthus's Rape of Helen, into English rhyme. He also translated the Elegies of Ovid. This book was printed at Middleburgh, without date, and was ordered to be burnt at Stationers' Hall, in 1599, by command of the archbishop of Canterbury and bishop of London. Marlowe afterwards began a translation of the Loves of Hero and Leander, vulgarly attributed to Musæus, but the work was interrupted by his death. "I learn from Mr. Malone (says Mr. "Warton), that Marlowe finished only the two first "Sestiads, and about one hundred lines of the third; Chap66 man did the remainder." His plays were, 1. "Tamer"lane, the great Scythian Emperor, two parts." 3." The "rich Jew of Malta." 4. "The tragical History of the Life "and Death of Dr. John Faustus." 5." Lust's Dominion." 6. "The Tragedy of King Edward the Second. 7. "The "Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage. It is to be lamented that these plays have not been collected and published, because the writings of Shakspeare's distinguished contemporaries, would prove the best comment on his works. Marlowe was killed during an affray in a brothel, rather before 1593. His birth, therefore, may be placed, with some probability, about 1562; for it is unlikely that he could have acquired a great reputation as an author and actor much before the age of thirty; and it is to be hoped that he did not meet with such a death at a more advanced age. Of the two following specimens, the first exhibits the most striking beauties, and the second the characteristic defects, of his style. THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD. COME live with me, and be my love, There will I make thee beds of roses, A FRAGMENT. [From England's Parnassus.] I WALKED along a stream, for pureness rare, No molten chrystal, but a richer mine, appear, A thousand naked nymphs, whose ivory shine, Upon this brim, the eglantine and rose, |