If he depart thus suddenly, I dye:

Run Anna, run, stay not to answere me.

Anna. I goe faire sister, heauens graunt good successe.

Enter the Nurse.

Nurse. O Dido, your little sonne Ascanius

Is gone! he lay with me last night,

And in the morning he was stolne from me,

I thinke some Fairies haue beguiled me.

Exit Anna

1620

Dido. O cursed hagge and false dissembling wretch!

That slayest me with thy harsh and hellish tale, 1625 Thou for some pettie guift hast let him goe,

And I am thus deluded of my boy :

Away with her to prison presently,

Traytoresse too keend and cursed Sorceresse.

Nurse. I know not what you meane by treason, I,

I am as true as any one of yours.

1630

Exeunt the Nurse (and Attendants`. Dido. Away with her, suffer her not to speake. My sister comes, I like not her sad lookes.

Enter Anna.

Anna. Before I came, Eneas was abourd, And spying me, hoyst vp the sailes amaine : But I cride out, Æneas, false Æneas stay.

1635

Then gan he wagge his hand, which yet held vp,

Made me suppose he would haue heard me speake
Then gan they driue into the Ocean,

Which when I viewd, I cride, Eneas stay,

1640

Dido, faire Dido wils Eneas stay:

Yet he whose heart of adamant or flint,
My teares nor plaints could mollifie a whit:
Then carelesly I rent my haire for griefe,
Which seene to all, though he beheld me not,
They gan to moue him to redresse my ruth,
And stay a while to heare what I could say,
But he clapt vnder hatches saild away.

1645

Dido. O Anna, Anna, I will follow him.
Anna. How can ye goe when he hath all your fleete?
Dido. Ile frame me wings of waxe like Icarus, 1651

1628+S.D. Enter Attendants add. Dyce, keend] to kind conj. Coll., conj. Deighton kind conj. Gros.: kenn'd Cunn., Bull. Mitford

Bull.

1629 too keend] keen Hurst: 1636 stay omit conj.

1642 heart 1594: heart's Hurst etc.

And ore his ships will soare vnto the Sunne,
That they may melt and I fall in his armes :
Or els Ile make a prayer vnto the waues,
That I may swim to him like Tritons neece :
O Anna, fetch Orions Harpe,

That I may tice a Dolphin to the shoare,
And ride vpon his backe vnto my loue:
Looke sister, looke, louely Eneas ships,
See see, the billowes heaue him vp to heauen,

O sister, sister, take away the Rockes,

1655

1660

And now downe falles the keeles into the deepe :

Theile breake his ships. O Proteus, Neptune, Ioue,
Saue, saue Eneas, Didos leefest loue!

Now is he come on shoare safe without hurt :
But see, Achates wils him put to sea,

1665

And all the Sailers merrie make for ioy,

But he remembring me shrinkes backe againe :

See where he comes, welcome, welcome my loue.

1670

Anna. Ah sister, leaue these idle fantasies,
Sweet sister cease, remember who you are.
Dido. Dido I am, vnlesse I be deceiu'd,
And must I raue thus for a runnagate ?
Must I make ships for him to saile away?
Nothing can beare me to him but a ship,
And he hath all my fleete, what shall I doe
But dye in furie of this ouersight?
I, I must be the murderer of my selfe :
No but I am not, yet I will be straight.
Anna be glad, now haue I found a meane
To rid me from these thoughts of Lunacie:
Not farre from hence

There is a woman famoused for arts,
Daughter vnto the Nimphs Hesperides,
Who wild me sacrifize his ticing relliques :
Goe Anna, bid my seruants bring me fire.

Enter Iarbus.

1675

1680

1685

Exit Anna.

Iar. How long will Dido mourne a strangers flight, That hath dishonord her and Carthage both?

1652 ship Hurst, Cunn.

to Gros.

Cunn.

1656 Anna repeat conj. Dyce, Cunn. 1660 him] 'em Dyce: them 1678 I, I] Aye,

Arions Dyce to Gros.
1676 my Hurst etc.: thy 1594

I Hurst to Bull. 1679+S.D. Aside add. Dyce, Bull. 1682 Not.. hence omit conj. Mitford 1682-3 One line 1594: div. Dyce 1684 Daughter] Guardian conj. Bull.: Drugster conj. Deighton

How long shall I with griefe consume my daies,
And reape no guerdon for my truest loue?

Dido. Iarbus, talke not of Eneas, let him goe,
Lay to thy hands and helpe me make a fire,
That shall consume all that this stranger left,
For I entend a priuate Sacrifize,

To cure my minde that melts for vnkind loue.

Iar. But afterwards will Dido graunt me loue?
Dido. I, I, Iarbus, after this is done,
None in the world shall haue my loue but thou:
So, leaue me now, let none approach this place.

1690

1695

Exit Iarbus.

Now Dido, with these reliques burne thy selfe,
And make Eneas famous through the world,
For periurie and slaughter of a Queene:
Here lye the Sword that in the darksome Caue
He drew, and swore by to be true to me,

1700

1710

Thou shalt burne first, thy crime is worse then his : 1705
Here lye the garment which I cloath'd him in,
When first he came on shoare, perish thou to:
These letters, lines, and periurd papers all,
Shall burne to cinders in this pretious flame.
And now ye Gods that guide the starrie frame,
And order all things at your high dispose,
Graunt, though the traytors land in Italy,
They may be still tormented with vnrest,
And from mine ashes let a Conquerour rise,
That may reuenge this treason to a Queene,
By plowing vp his Countries with the Sword:
Betwixt this land and that be neuer league,
Littora littoribus contraria, fluctibus vndas
Imprecor: arma armis: pugnent ipsíq nepotes :
Liue false Æneas, truest Dido dyes,

Sic sic iuuat ire sub vmbras.

1715

1720

(Stabs herself and throws herself into the flames.)

Enter Anna.

Anna. O helpe Iarbus, Dido in these flames Hath burnt her selfe, aye me, vnhappie me!

1690+S.D. Enter Attendants with wood and torches add. Dyce 1691 Iarbus] Oh conj. Mitford

1698 +S.D. They make a fire

1721 S.D. add.

add. Dyce 1703, 1706 lies Hurst, Dyce Gros. 1723, 1726 aye] ah Hurst, Cunn.

Enter Iarbus running.

Iar. Cursed Iarbus, dye to expiate

The griefe that tires vpon thine inward soule,
Dido I come to thee, aye me, Æneas.

1725

(Kills himself.)

1730

Anna. What can my teares or cryes preuaile me now? Dido is dead, Iarbus slaine, Iarbus my deare loue. O sweet Iarbus, Annas sole delight, What fatall destinie enuies me thus, To see my sweet Iarbus slay himselfe ? But Anna now shall honor thee in death, And mixe her bloud with thine, this shall I doe, That Gods and men may pitie this my death, And rue our ends senceles of life or breath: Now sweet Iarbus stay, I come to thee.

1726 S.D. add. Hurst

1735

(Kills herself.)

FINIS.

1736 S.D add. Hurst

v. i. 1724-1736

THE MASSACRE AT PARIS

Date. The play of The Massacre at Paris or The Guise, as Henslowe sometimes terms it with rather more propriety, must have been composed between August 2, 1589, and January 30, 1593. On the first of these dates occurred the event with which the tragedy closes, the death of Henri III of France; on the latter occasion the play was performed at Henslowe's theatre by the company of the Lord Strange. Since Henslowe marks 'the tragedey of the gvyes' as a new play on January 30, 1593, it was probably composed pretty shortly before, and is therefore to be reckoned one of the latest of Marlowe's dramatic works. Crude as the play undoubtedly is, there is nothing to indicate that it was written very immediately after the assassination of the French king, for that event, which in a contemporary topical' drama would naturally have formed the mainstay of the plot, is here given very little importance, while the principal interest centres about the ancient history of St. Bartholomew and the animosities of Guise and Navarre.

Stage history. In addition to the single performance by Lord Strange's servants already mentioned, which produced the large sum of £3 14s., Henslowe records ten representations by the Admiral's company between June 19 and September 25, 1594. Notes of expenditure for stage properties show that The Guise was revived in 1598, and again in 1601, and a further memorandum records the disbursement of £6 pd at the apoyntment of the companye the 18 of Janewary 1601 [1602, N.S.] vnto E. Alleyn for iij. boockes wch were played', second on the list being 'the massaker of france". Mr. Greg is no doubt correct in his opinion1 that the manuscript of our play had been brought to the Admiral's company by Alleyn, when that famous actor left Lord Strange's men to join the other troupe.

Text. The Massacre at Paris does not appear to have