The Author ship of " King Henry VI." 185 



2 Henry VI, I, iii, 83 : 



" She bears a duke's revenues on her back." ^ 

 Edward II, 1. 704: 



"He weares a lords revenewe on his back." 



3 Henry VI, I, ii, 28-31 : 



" And, father, do but think 



How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, 



Within whose circuit is Elysium, 



And all that poets feign of bliss and joy." 



Tamhurlaine, 11. 763—765 : 



" I thinke the pleasure they enioy in heaven 

 Can not compare with kingly ioyes in earth, 

 To weare a Crowne enchac'd with pearle and golde." 



Ihid., U. 863, 879 f. : 



" The thirst of raigne and sweetnes of a crowne — 



That perfect blisse and sole felicitie, 



The sweet fruition of an earthly crowne." 



3 Henry VI, H, iii, 56 : 



" Forslow no longer; make we hence amain." 

 Edward II, 1. 1138: 



" Forslowe no time, sweet Lancaster, lets march." 

 3 Henry VI, H, v, 14 f. : 



" These arms of mine shall be thy winding-sheet ; 



My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre." 



Jew of Malta, 1. 1192 : 



"These armes of mine shall be thy Sepulchre." 



There would thus seem, on prima facie evidence and on the testi- 

 mony of parallels, very good reason to believe that Millington's 

 version of the Contention and True Tragedy, printed in 1594/5, gave 

 a corrupt text of the plays and omitted certain passages belonging 

 to Marlowe's original draft. This suspicion is rendered almost a 

 certainty when we consider the intermediate version printed by 

 Pavier in 1619. In the preceding pages there has been httle occasion 

 to mention Pa\aer's edition, which inherently possesses very small 



See p. 187. 



