That Rome, and all those popish prelates there,
Shall curse the time that e'er Navarre was king,
And rul'd in France by Henry's fatal death.

[They march out, with the body of the king lying
on four men's shoulders, with a dead march,
drawing weapons on the ground.

DIDO,

QUEEN OF CARTHAGE.

DIDO QUEEN OF CARTHAGE. This is a very scarce play, only three copies being known to be extant, one in the Bodleian library, one in the Marquis of Stafford's collection, and the third in the possession of Mr. Heber. Mr. Malone only knew of two in the possession of Dr. Wright and Mr. Reed. To one of these, now in the Bodleian, he has appended a note from which the following extract is copied

"Mr. Warton speaks in his Hist. of Eng. Poetry, (III. p. 435.) of an Elegy being prefixed to it [Dido] on the death of Marlowe; but no such is found in either of those copies. In answer to my enquiries on this subject, he informed me, by letter, that a copy of this play was in Osborn's Catalogue in the year 1754; that he then saw it in his shop (together with several of Mr. Oldys's books that Osborne had purchased) and that the elegy in question "On Marlowe's untimely death," was inserted immediately after the title page: that it mentioned a play of Marlowe's, entitled the "Duke of Guise," and four others, but whether particularly by name, he could not recollect. Unluckily he did not purchase this rare piece, and it is now God knows where.

"Bishop Tanner likewise mentions this elegy, in so particular a manner, that he must have seen it. Marlovius (Christopherus) quondam in Academiâ Cantabrigiensi, Musarum Alumnus; postea actor scienicus; deinde poeta dramaticus tragicus, paucis inferior. Scripsit plurimas Tragedias, Sc. Tamerlane, Tragedie of Dido, Queen of Carthage,-Pr. Come gentle Ganymed.' Hanc perfecit et edidit Tho. Nash, Lond. 1594. 4to. Petowius in præfatione ad secun

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