APPENDIX. A. The Atheist's Tragedie. This ballad is printed from a manuscript copy in the possession of Mr. J. P. Collier. The "Friend once gay and greene" is, of course, Robert Greene; Wormall is the anagram of Marlow. ALL you that have got eares to heare, Now listen unto mee; Whilst I do tell a tale of feare: A true one it shall bee: A truer storie nere was told, As some alive can showe; This man did his owne God denie So he his course might run. Both day and night would he blaspheme, And day and night would sweare, As if his life was but a dreame Not ending in dispaire. A poet was he of repute, And wrote full many a playe, Now strutting in a silken sute, Then begging by the way. He had alsoe a player beene Upon the Curtaine-stage, But brake his leg in one lewd scene, He was a fellow to all those That did God's laws reject, Consorting with the Christians' foes And men of ill aspect. Ruffians and cutpurses hee Had ever at his backe, And led a life most foule and free, He now is gone to his account, And gone before his time, Did not his wicked deedes surmount But he no warning ever tooke He had a friend, once gay and greene, The wofull'st wretch was ever seene, The worst ere woman bore. Unlesse this WORMALL did exceede And terror's bitternesse. Yet Wormall ever kept his course, Since nought could him dismay; He knew not what thing was remorse Unto his dying day. Then had he no time to repent The crimes he did commit, And no man ever did lament Ah, how is knowledge wasted quite Well might learned Cambridge oft regret He ever there was bred: Brought poison forth instead. BB His lust was lawlesse as his life, Of one who was his rivall foe, moe, Pierc'd through the eye and braine. Thus did he come to suddaine ende Had he been brought up to the trade This exit he had never made, Take warning ye that playes doe make, Blaspheming Tambolin must die, What is there, in this world, of worth Our lives, then, let us mend with speed, The end of everie hainous deed, Finis. Ign. B. A Note, Contayninge the Opinion of one Christofer Marlye, concernynge his damnable Opinions and Judgment of Relygion and Scorne of God's Worde. FROM MS. HARL. 6853, FOL. 320. This paper was first printed by Ritson in his Observations on Warton's Hist. of E. P., P. 40. In a volume, now in the Bodleian Library, Malone has written as follows: "This Richard Bame or Banes was hanged at Tyburn on the 6th of Dec. 1594. See the Stationers' Register, Book B, p. 316. "It is obvious to remark upon this testimony, that it is not upon oath; that it contains some declarations which it is utterly incredible that Marlowe should have made (as that concerning his intention to coin, which he must have known to be penal); that Bane does not appear to have been confronted with the person accused, or cross-examined by him or any other person; and that the whole rests upon his single assertion. This paper, however, may derive some support from the verses quoted at the other side [of the page in Malone's book] from The Returne from Parnassus, which was written about 10 years after Marlowe's death." THAT the Indians and many Authors of Antiquitei have assuredly written of aboue 16 thowsande years agone, wher Adam is proved to have leyved within 6 thowsande yeers. He affirmeth That Moyses was but a Juggler, and that one Heriots can do more than hee. That Moyses made the Jewes to travell fortie yeers in the wildernes (which iorny might have ben don in lesse then one yeer) er they came to the promised That he [Christ] was the sonne of a carpenter, and that yf the Jewes amonge whome he was borne did crvcifye him, thei best knew him and whence he came. That Christ deserved better to dye then Barabas, and that the Jewes made a good choyce, though Barrabas were both a thiefe and a murtherer. That yf ther be any God or good Religion, then it is in the Papistes, becavse the service of God is performed with more ceremonyes, as elevacion of the masse, organs, singinge men, shaven crownes, &c. That all protestantes ar hipocriticall Asses. That, yf he wer put to write a new religion, he wolde vndertake both a more excellent and more admirable methode, and that all the new testament is filthely written. the Queen of Englande, and that he was acquainted with one Poole, a prisoner in newgate, whoe hath great skill in mixture of mettalls, and, havinge learned some thinges of him, he ment, thorough help of a cunnynge stampemaker, to coyne french crownes, pistolettes, and englishe shillinges. That, yf Christ had instituted the Sacramentes with more ceremonyall reverence, it wold have ben had in more admiracion, that it wolde have ben much better beinge administred in a Tobacco pype. * That one Richard Cholmelei hath confessed that he was perswaded by Marloes reason to become an Athieste. Theis thinges, with many other, shall by good and honest men be proved to be his opinions and common speeches, and that this Marloe doth not only holde them himself, but almost in every company he commeth, perswadeth men to Athiesme, willinge them not to be afrayed of bugbeares and hobgoblins, and utterly scornynge both God and his ministers, as I Richard Bome [sic] will justify both by my othe and the testimony of many honest men, and almost all men with whome he hath conversed any tyme will testefy the same: and, as I thincke, all men in christianitei ought to endevor that the mouth of so dangerous a member may be stopped. He sayeth moreover that he hath coated [quoted] a number of contrarieties out of the scriptures, which he hath geeven to some great men, whoe in convenient tyme shal be named. When theis thinges shalbe called in question, the witnesses shall be produced. (Endorsed) RYCHARD BAME. Copye of Marloes blasphemyes as sent to her Highness]e. INDEX TO THE NOTES. BOVE (or about), 200 b. 346 Aby thy conquest past, 281 b. 366 Actors, best of, 87 323 Adolesche, 221 6. 352 Edone, 215 a. 351 Affect, 186 a. 341 Agood, 99 b. 325 Air (for hair), 173 a. 338 Albertos Magnus, 61 a. 320 Alcmane (Alcmæon), 217 a. 352 And actions (or audacious), 207 b. 348 Argins, 41 b. 316 43 a. 316 Argumentum testimonii, 161 a. 335 BANDY, 120 a. 329 Barbarian steeds, 33 a. 315 Basilisks, 18 a. 314 Behight, promisit, 253a, 361 Bird-bolt's shoot, 225 a. 353 Broth by the Eye, 104 b. 326 Bussorah, 42 b. 316 CANONIZE, 61 a. 320 Carbonades, 21 b. 314 Carcanet, 207 b. 348 Carouse the sea, 245 b. 359 Cassandra, 232 a.3 55 Cast, 115 a. 328 147 6. 332 150 b. 333 149 a. 333 142 a. 332 Cherup through the bills, 197 a. 344 Chides, evocat, 233 b. 356 Cleapt (embraced), 225 a. 353 Clips (mistranslation), 230 6. 355 Cock-horse peasantry, 225 a. 353 Coll (or coil), 188 b. 341 Crown, smooth way's, 249 a. 361 Defend (prohibit), 155a. 335 Devotes, 223 a. 353 Dipsas (Thirsty one), 233 a. 356 220 b. 352 Dusty honours, 238 a. 357 ECSTASY, 93 a. 324 Ecus (crowns), 147 a. 334 Electra, 260 b. 364 Elizabeth Woodville, 203 a. 347 Enforced, 215 b. 351 2186. 352 Envied, 1206 329 176a. 339 Eronusis, 216 a. 351 Euphrates, 28 a. 314. Europa (for Eurotas), 235 a. 356 'Every Man in his Humour,' 199a. 346 Exhibition, 167 a. 337 Expugnèd, 209 a. 348 Eyas thoughts, 213 b. 351 French rout, 247 a. 360 GABIONS, 436. 317 Gallop amain, 198 a. 34 Gobbets (not goblets), 230 a. 355 HAD I wist,' 135 a. 331 Hale, 179 a. 339 Harness, 66 a. 321 179 b. 339 IBERIAN City (Cadiz), 209 a. 348 |