400 Tucker Brooke, 



This isle itself, shall fleet upon the ocean, 

 And wander, to the unfrequented Inde. 

 So well Mathias has deserv'd of Abigail. 

 (Cf. Edivard II, 11. 343-345) 



The scene then continues with the conversation between Barabas 

 and Ithamore (11. 928 ff.). Instead of 11. 1126-1128, a new 

 speech of nine lines by Abigail is insetted. The scene of the death 

 of Mathias and Lodowick is expanded, seven lines being added 

 after Marlowe's 1183 and nearly fifty lines after 1185. Between 

 11. 1247 and 1248 of Marlowe the reviser again introduces a 

 plagiarism from Edzvard II: 



Oh day ! the last of all my bliss on earth, 



Centre of all misfortunes ! — heavenly powers ! 



Why do you low'r thus unkindly on me? (Edivard II, 1928-30.) 



Oh might I never ope these eyes again 1 

 Never again, lift up this drooping head! 

 Oh! never more lift up this dying heart. 

 Ith. How now mistress — wherefore this lament? 

 Abi. Yes — 'tis my only home, for whither else 

 Shall wretched Abigail presume to fly? 

 Oh never to an unrelenting Father, 

 Whose eyes vindictive, being turn'd to steel, 

 Will sooner sparkle fire, than shed a tear. (Edzcard II, 2090 f.) 



Before line 1258, two other lines from Edzvard II (2097 f.) are 

 given to Abigail : 



Come death, and with thy fingers close my eyes, 

 Or if I live, let me forget myself. 



Lines 1270-1278 are replaced by the following: 



(Enter Jacomo.) 



(.■ll'igail). Oh holy friar to thee I fly for comfort — ■ 

 Cheer, I beseech thee, a distressed soul. 

 And all in pity of my wretched state. 

 Assuage the horrors of a fell despair. 

 Jacomo. Wherein good daughter is it, I can serve thee? 

 ,-lbi. By shielding" me within some holy walls 

 In true contrition for — another's crimes. 



After 1. 1302, which closes Act III, sc. i, of Penley, the reviser 

 transposes the order of scenes. Lines 1420-1456 follow as scene 

 ii ; then, as scene iii, a largely rewritten version of 11. 1465-1496. 

 which represent Abigail as dying from natural causes. In the 



