MARSTON 337 have published are his satires, called The Scourge of Villany, and the voluptuous, half-sarcastic romance in six-line stanza, The Metamorphosis of Pygmalion's Image, both of 1598. His bitterness of tongue was so great that he was nicknamed "Kinsayder," one who crops or "kinses" the tails of dogs. From 1601 to 1607 he seems to have lived by writing for the stage. His most important pieces are Antonio and Mellida, in two parts (1602); The Malcontent (1604); The Dutch Courtezan (1605); Parasitaster; or, The Fawn (1606); and What You Will (1607). He entered the Church, long held an incumbency in Hampshire or Wiltshire, and died in the parish of Aldermanbury on June 25, 1634. THE PROLOGUE TO THE SECOND PART OF" ANTONIO AND MELLIDA " ("ANTONIO'S REVENGE ") The rawish dank of clumsy winter ramps The fluent summer's vein and drizzling sleet Chilleth the wan bleak cheek of the numb'd earth, Whilst snarling gusts nibble the juiceless leaves From the naked shuddering branch, and pills the skin From off the soft and delicate as pects. O, now methinks a sullen tragic scene Would suit the time with pleasing congruence! May we be happy in our weak devoir, And all part pleased in most wish'd content. But sweat of Hercules can ne'er beget So blest an issue. Therefore we proclaim, If any spirit breathes within this round Uncapable of weighty passion, VOL. II THE HISTORY OF Antonio and let such (As from his birth being hugged in the arms Y Cyril Tour neur If aught of these strains fill this consort up, TRAGEDIES AND COMEDIES COLLECTED INTO Viz. L. Antonio and Mellida. 2. Antonio's Revenge. 3. The Tragedie of Sophonisba. 4. What you will. 5. The Fawne. 6. The Dutch Courtezan. LONDON, Ben. Jonson Printed by A.M for William Sheares, Title-page of Marston's "Tragedies From Ben Jonson's copy, with his autograph THE SCHOLAR AND HIS DOG, from I was a scholar seven useful springs Of cross'd opinions 'bout the soul of man ; Delight, my spaniel, slept, whilst I baused (kissed) leaves, Toss'd o'er the dunces, pored on the old Of titled words and still my spaniel slept. And still, I held converse with Zabarell Of antique Donate: still my spaniel slept. Then, an it were mortal. O hold, hold; at They're at brain-buffets, fell by the ears Pell-mell together: still my spaniel slept. Stood banding factions, all so strongly I stagger'd, knew not which was firmer part, But thought, quoted, read, observed, and pryed, Stuff'd noting-books and still my spaniel At length he waked, and yawn'd; and by yon sky, It is believed that Cyril Tourneur (1575 ?-1626) was the son of Richard Tourneur, Governor of the Brill in Holland. Much of his life was probably spent in service in the Netherlands. In 1600 was published his outrageously metaphysical and obscure poem, The Transform'd Metamorphosis. His earliest play, The Revenger's Tragedy, was printed in 1607, and The Atheist's Tragedy in 1611. A third, The Nobleman, was licensed in 1612, but has been lost. Cyril Tourneur acted as the secretary of Sir Edward Cecil in the Cadiz expedition of 1625, and was among those disbanded soldiers who were put ashore at Kinsale on the return of the fleet. He was already ill, and he died in Ireland, in utter destitution, on February 28, 1626. Able to tempt a great man-to serve God; A pretty hanging lip, that has forgot now to dissemble. A drunkard clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em. Here's a cheek keeps her colour let the wind go whistle; Does the silkworm expend her yellow For thee? for thee does she undo herself? Why does yon fellow falsify highways, men, To beat their valours for her? Surely we're all mad people, and they Does every proud and self-affecting dame In sinful baths of milk, when many an in- For her superfluous outside, for all this? Who now bids twenty pound a night? prepares Music, perfumes, and sweetmeats? all are hush'd. Thou mayst lie chaste now! it were fine, To have thee seen at revels, forgetful feasts, the sinner, And make him a good coward: put a reveller Out of his antick amble, And cloy an epicure with empty dishes. THE 339 REVENGERS TRAGEDIE. As it hath beene fundry times Acted, by the Kings Maiesties Seruants. AT LONDON Printed by G. ELD, and are to be fold at his hocfe in Fleete lane at the figne of the Printers-Presse. 1607. Title page of Cyril Tourneur's "The Here might a scornful and ambitious woman A man that folds his arms, or wrings his hands, For grief) ebb'd from the body, and descends; As if it would sink down into the earth, And hide itself for shame of such a deed. The one fact about THOMAS HEYWOOD which is universally known is that Charles Lamb called him "a sort of prose Shakespeare." This genial expression, divorced from its context, has been a stumbling-block to many readers who have turned to A Challenge for Beauty or to The Fair Maid of the Exchange, and have been disappointed to meet there with some beauty, indeed, but with slovenly qualities the reverse of Shakespearean. But Lamb's too-telling phrase should not be quoted alone; it is true that he was carried away. 341 Allegorical plate from the "Hierarchy of the Blessed 66 scenes by the enthusiasm of the discoverer so far as to say that Heywood's Thomas Heywood |