362 Tucker Brooke, 



Raleigh and Drayton others which are less conventional.^^ Shake- 

 speare, besides his direct quotation in As You Like It,-^ perhaps 

 alludes to Marlowe's Leander in The Tzvo Gentlemen of Verona 

 (I. i. 20 ff. ; III. i. 127 ff.), Much Ado about Nothing (V. ii. 30 

 fi.), A Midsummer Night's Dream (V. i. 199 ff.), and As You 

 Like It (IV. i. 103 ff.) The anthology, England's Parnassus 

 (1600) quotes about 140 lines from Marlowe's portion of the 

 poem, and Bodenham's Belvedere, in the same year, cites many 

 more.-^ In Every Man in his Humour (IV. i) Jonson bears 

 witness to the surpassing popularity of Marlowe's lines with one 

 type of contemporary society, the plagiarizing poetaster ;-- while 

 Middleton, coupling Hero and Leander with Venus and Adonis, 

 notes its appeal with another {A Mad World, My Masters, 1608, 

 I. ii) : 



I have conveyed away all her wanton pamphlets ; as Hero and Leander, 

 Venus and Adonis; O, two luscious marrow-bone pies for a young married 

 wife! 



Richard Carew, on the Excellencies of the English Tongue (ed. 

 1602, p. 13), similarly pairs the poems of Shakespeare and 

 Marlowe, but with more respect : 



Would you read Catullus ? Take Shakespeare and Marloe's fragment ; 

 that is the Venus & Adonis or Lucrece of the one and the Hero and Leander 

 of the other. 



^^ 'On Sestus' shore, Leander's late resort. 



Hero hath left no lamp to guide her love. 



Thou lookest for light in vain, and storms arise ; 



She sleeps thy death, that erst thy danger sighed.' {Cynthia, bk. xxi.) 

 Compare Drayton's Heroical Epistles (1598), Mary to Charles Brandon: 



'Here is no Bedlam Nurse, to pout nor lour. 



When wantoning, we revel in my Towre, 



Nor need I top my Turret with a Light, 



To guide thee to me, as thou swim'st by Night.' 

 *' Chapman himself quoted tlie line, 'Whoever loved that loved not at first 

 sight?' — inaccurately and without acknowledgment — near the end of his 

 Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1598). Heywood gives it correctly as 'the 

 poet's excellent saying' in The Captives (Judson's ed., H. ii. 140). 



"^ Charles Crawford {Englische Studien 43. 206) identifies fifty quotations 

 from Marlowe in Belvedere, of which forty-three arc from Hero and 

 Leander and seven from Edward IL 



^Master Matthew misquotes eight lines of the first Sestiad (199-204, 

 221 f.). Lines 199-204 (the opening of Leander's first speech to Hero) are 

 again misquoted, with ludicrous intention, in Act I of The Fleire by Edward 

 Sharpham (1607: ed. H. Nibbe, il/a/rr;'a/iV«, 1912, p. 10, 11. 195 flf.). 



