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(27) True Tragedy, p. 71, 11. 35-37: 



" See brothers, yonder stands the thornie wood, 



Which by Gods assistance and your prowesse, 



Shall with our swords yer night be cleane cut downe." 



Tamburlaine, 11. 1397-1399: 



" Shaking their swords, their speares and yron bils, 

 Enuironing their standard round, that stood 

 As bristle-pointed as a thorny wood." 



(28) True Tragedy, p. 76, 11. 50 f . : 



" What ? will the aspiring bloud of Lancaster 



Sinke into the ground ? I had thought it would haue mounted." 



Edward II, 1. 93 : 



" Frownst thou thereat, aspiring Lancaster ? " 



Ibid., 11. 2000 f. : 



" Highly scorning that the lowly earth 



Should drinke his bloud, mounts vp into the ayre." 



In a number of the passages just quoted {e. g., nos. 3, 9, 12, 14), 

 parallels appear not only with the accepted plays of Marlowe, but 

 also between the various parts of the Contention and True Tragedy. 

 In the following additional instances the plays we are considering 

 exhibit parallels for which the acknowledged plays offer no suggestion 

 or counterpart : 



(29) Contention, p. 4, 1. 39 : 



" Till terme of eighteene months be full expired." 

 Ihid., p. 5, U. 60 f.: 



" Till terme of 18. months be full expirde," 



(30) Contention, p. 6, 11. 98-101: 



" The common people swarme about him straight. 

 Crying lesus blesse your royall exeUence, 

 With God preserue the good Duke Humphrey, 

 And many things besides that are not knowne." 

 Ihid., p. 30, U. 9-12: 



" See you not how the Commons follow him 

 In troupes, crying, God saue the good Duke Humphrey, 

 And with long life, lesus preserue his grace. 

 Honouring him as if he were their King." 



(31) Contention, p. 6, 1. 104: 



" He laie a plot to heaue him from his seate." 



