164 C. F. Tucker Brooke, 



realized by the writer, but more clearly demonstrative of unity of 

 authorship than any number of mere word echoes. 



Now, if Marlowe wrote the Contention and True Tragedy, we 

 should normally expect to find both these types of parallels there 

 illustrated. We should expect to find the poet introducing parallels 

 of language and thought from his other plays — particularly from 

 those nearly contemporary with the ones in question ; and we should 

 also expect to find him continuing the same practice of repetition 

 within the new plays themselves. That is, we should expect to 

 find the same similarities of language and idea between the different 

 parts of the Contention and True Tragedy as between those plays 

 and accepted works like the Massacre at Paris and Edward II. This 

 is precisely what we do find. It will be well to take up first the 

 passages which show the plays under consideration echoing lines in 

 Marlowe's acknowledged dramas. I give a list of all the instances 

 I have noted in the order in which they appear. The references 

 allude, as before, to the page and line number in the Praetorius 

 facsimiles of Contention and True Tragedy and to the line number 

 in my edition of Marlowe : — 



(1) Contention, p. 4, 1. 30 : 



" Her lookes did wound, but now her speech doth pierce." 

 Dido, 1. 1007 : 



" Aeneas, no, although his eyes doe pearce." 



(2) Contention, p. 5, 1. 79 : 



" Ah Lords, fatall is this marriage canselling our states." 

 Massacre at Paris, 1. 206 : 



" Oh fatall was this marriage to vs all." 



(3) Contention, p. 7, 11. 149 f. : 



" And when I spie aduantage, claime the Crowne, 



For thats the golden marke I seeke to hit." 

 Ihid., p. 32, 1. 80: 



" And dogged Yorke that leuels at the Moone." 

 Ihid., p. 53, 1. 94: 



" If honour be the marke whereat you aime." 

 True Tragedy, p. 28, 1. 18 : 



" Ambitious Yorke did leuell at thy Crowne." 

 Edward II, 11. 1581 f. : 



" Thats it these Barons and the subtill Queene 



Long leueld at." 



