CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

EDITED BY HAVELOCK ELLIS.

WITH A

GENERAL INTRODUCTION ON THE ENGLISH DRAMA DURING

THE REIGNS OF ELIZABETH AND JAMES I.

“I lie and dream of your full MERMAID wine."--Beaumont.

UNEXPURGATED EDITION.

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“What things have we seen
Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been
So nimble, and so full of subtle flame,
As if that every one from whence they came
Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,
And had resolved to live a fool the rest
Of his dull life.”

Master Francis Beaumont to Ben Jonson

“ Souls of Poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern ?”

Keats,

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