162 C. F. Tucker Brooke, 



All times and seasons rest you at a stay, 

 That Edward may be still faire Englands king : 

 But dayes bright beames dooth vanish fast away, 

 And needes I must resigne my wished crowne." 



(c) Edward II, 11. 343 f. : 



" Ere my sweete Gaiiesion shall part from me, 

 This He shah fleete vpon the Ocean." 

 Dido, 11. 1340 f. : 



" And let rich Carthage fleete vpon the seas. 

 So I may haue Aeneas in mine armes." 



(d) Edward II, 11. 393-397 : 



" Proud Rome, that hatchest such imperiall groomes. 



For these thy superstitious taperlights, 



Wherewith thy antichristian churches blaze, 



He fire thy crazed buildings and enforce 



The papall towers to kisse the lowhe ground." 



Massacre at Paris, 11. 1210-1215 : 



" Which if I doe, the Papall Monarck goes 

 To wrack and antechristian kingdome falles. 

 These bloudy hands shaU teare his triple Crowne, 

 And fire accursed Rome about his eares. 

 He fire his erased buildings and inforse 

 The papall towers to kisse the holy earth." 



Jew of Malta, 11. 2066 f.: 



" I'le helpe to slay their children and their wiues. 

 To fire the Churches, pull their houses downe." 



(e) Doctor Faustus, 11. 1328 f. : 



" Was this the face that lancht a thousand shippes, 

 And burnt the toplesse Towres of Ilium ? " 

 Dido, 11. 481 f.: 



" In whose sterne faces shin'd the quenchles fire, 

 That after burnt the pride of Asia." 



(f) Edward II, 11. 117 f. : 



" Brother, reuenge it, and let these their heads 

 Preach vpon poles for trespasse of their tongues." 

 Ibid., 1. 1326: 



" Strike off their heads, and let them preach on poles. 



(g) Massacre at Paris, 1. 289 : 



" Cheefe standard bearer to the Lutheranes." 



