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Ills “ Groat/worth of Witte bought with a Million of 
Repentance,” addrefles him, “Thor, famous gracer of 
tragedians on which Mr. Malone obl'erves, that Mar- 
loe was “ the moft famous and admired poet of that age, 
previous to the appearance of Shakefpeare.” In Francis 
More’s Second Part of Wits Common Walk, he is ranked 
with a bevy of firft-rate genius, “ who mightily enriched, 
and gorgeoufly inverted in rare ornaments and refplendent 
liabilements, the Englifli tongue.” Heywood, in his pro- 
Jogue to the revival of the Jew of Malta, ftyles him “ the 
belt of poets.” Ben Jonfon notices “ Marloe’s mighty 
line.” And Drayton has bellowed a high panegyric on 
him, in a copy of verfes called The Cenfure of the Poets, 
in which he fpeaks of him in the following manner: 
Next Marloe, bathed in the Thefpian fprings. 
Had in him thofe brave tranflunary things 
That your fir It poets had ; his raptures were 
All air and fire, which made his verfes clear 
For that fine madnefs Hill he did retain, 
Which rightly fhould poflefs a poet’s brain. 
Marloe may be faid to have attached himfelf entirely to 
tragedy; the Maiden’s Holyday being the only exception. 
If as a dramatic poet he will not bear comparifon with 
fome of the writers whofe works have fince been fubmitted 
to the public, it fhould be remembered that he preceded 
the new era which Shakefpeare’s productions may be fup- 
pofed to have produced ; yet, if juftice be fairly dealt out 
to him, and a comparifon made between himfelf and the 
writers of his own time, he will be found to claim a re- 
fpeftable rank. Of his Edward the Second, Mr. Lamb 
obferves, “ the reluflant pangs of abdicating royalty in 
Edward, furnilhed hints which Shakefpeare fcareefy im¬ 
proved in his Richard the Second ; and the death-feene of 
Marloe’s King moves pity and terror beyond any feene, 
ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted.” He 
tranllated Coluthus’s Rape of Helen, and the Elegies of 
Ovid ; the latter, printed at Middleburgh, without date, 
“ was ordered to be burnt at Stationer’s Hall, in 1599, by 
command of the archbifhop of Canterbury and the birtiop 
of London.” At his death, the poem of Hero and Leander 
■was found incomplete: it was afterwards finifhed, fays 
Wood, by Chapman, and publifhed in 1606 ; but a con¬ 
tinuation of it, a mere tranflation from the Italian, dedi¬ 
cated to fir H. Guildford, had appeared as early as 1598, 
by Henry Petowe. Perhaps the generality of perfons are 
not aware that the celebrated and Hill-popular poem of 
The Paffionate Shepherd, beginning, “Come live with 
me, and be my love,” is the produdion of this author. 
Marloe has been charged with irreligion and infidelity ; 
and he appears to have been licentious in his manners. 
His end was tragical; having quarrelled about a low girl 
with a footman of whom he was jealous, he was dabbed 
■with his own dagger which he had drawn upon his rival. 
This happened in or before the year 1593. The follow¬ 
ing is a lift of his plays : 1. Tamberlaine the Great, a tra¬ 
gedy in two parts, 4to. 1590 and 1606. 2. The Maftacre 
of Paris, a tragedy, 8vo. no date. Mr. Malone fuppofes 
this and the Tragedy of Guyes, mentioned in a manu- 
icript of Henllowe’s, as afted on January 30, 1592, to be 
the fame play. 3. Dido, Queen of Carthage, a tragedy, 
which was completed and pnblifhed by his friend Thomas 
Nafli, in 1594, fays Dr. Warton. It is a very fcarce play ; 
at Dr. Wright’s fale it brought fixteen guineas, and at the 
Roxburgh fale feventeen. 4. Edward the Second, a tra¬ 
gedy, 4to. 1598. 5. The Tragical Hiltorie of Dr. Fauftus, 
4to. 1604; re-publifhed 1814, with a preface, from which 
this article is felefted. 6. The Rich Jew of Malta, a tra¬ 
gedy, 4to. 1633. Though not publifhed till fo long after 
the deceafe of the author, it had been aded as early as 
February 26, 1591. 7. The Maiden’s Holyday, a comedy, 
in conjunction with Mr. Day, 3654, not printed. 8. Lull’s 
Dominion, orthe Lafcivious Queen, a tragedy, 12010. 1657. 
Mr, Malone, perhaps the firlt authority on this fubjed, 
and other eminent critics, have fuppofed The Firlt Part of 
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The Contention of the two famous Houfes of York and 
Lancaller,and ThetrueTragedy of Richard Duke of York, 
which form, with trifling variation, two parts of King 
Henry the Sixth, publifhed as Shakefpeare’s, and Titus 
Andronicus, to have been written by Marloe. The latter, 
like his Edward the Second, was performed by the earl of 
Pembroke’s fervants, (who are not known, fays Mr. Ma¬ 
lone, to have performed any one of Shakefpeare’s un¬ 
doubted dramas.) Like Fauflus, it abounds in feraps of 
Latin and claflical allufions; and, like the Jew of Malta, 
in blood and murder. “ I fhould be gratified (fays his 
biographer) on finding thefe conjedures ertablilhed ; for, 
though thefe plays have been rejected as unworthy the 
tranfeendent genius of Shakefpeare, they would Shed a 
lullre round any other name.” 
MARLOE’s BA'Y, a bay of South Wales, on the weft 
coafl of the county of Pembroke, between St. Bride’s 
Bay and Milford Haven. 
MARLORAT' (Auguftine), a celebrated Calvinift 
divine, was a native of Lorraine, and born in the year 
1506. When very young, he was perfuaded by fome re-, 
lations who coveted his little patrimonial property, to en¬ 
ter a monaftery of Augulfinian mendicant friars. Here 
he purfued his ftudies with great diligence and fuccefs; 
and, after deliberate enquiry, determined to abjure the 
catholic, and to adopt the reformed, religion. Taking 
leave of the cloifier, he commenced preacher among the 
French protertants ; and appeared in the pulpit with great 
acceptance at Bourges, Poitiers, and Angers. Afterwards 
lie went for further improvement to the college of Lau- 
fanne ; and from thence went to fettle as paltor at Vevay 
on the banks of the lake of Geneva. Here he acquired 
great reputation, not only by his minifterial labours, but 
by his ufeful publications which are noticed at the end 
of this article. This reputation occafioned an invitation 
to be fent to him from the protellant church at Rouen, 
which he thought proper to accept; and he condufled 
himfelf in his new relation with tlie moft exemplary piety 
and prudence, and to the entire fatisfadion ot his flock. 
In 1562, the civil war having broken out, Rouen was 
befieged by the royal army, and after a brave defence 
compelled tofurrender; on which event, notwithftanding 
that no charges were preferred againft him, and many 
even of his adverfaries interefted themfelves for his fafety, 
by a cruel order from the conitable Montmorency and the 
duke of Guife, Marlorat and three other of the principal 
citizens loft their lives on tile gallows. At this time our 
author was about the age of fifty-iix. With equal induf- 
try and judgment he compiled Commentaries on feveral 
of the books of Scripture, from the labours of the moft 
learned writers of the age, with diftinds acknowledgements 
of his obligations, and much original matter of his own. 
They appeared in 1562, 1364, and 1605, in 5 vols. folio; 
and lie left behind him, in an impeded hate, “ Prophetic33 
et Apoftolicae Doclrinae Thcfaurus in Locos communes 
Rerum, Dogma turn et Phrafium, Qrdine Alpbabetico di- 
geftus;” which was completed by William Feugere, pro- 
feffor of divinity at Leyden, and publifhed in 1574, in 
folio. Beza leones Vir. llluji . 
MAR'LOW, a village in Herefordshire, beyond Kin- 
ton, on the borders of Sliropftiire. 
MAR'LOW, a town of America, in Chefliire county. 
New Hampfliire, containing 543 inhabitants : twenty-five 
miles weft of Concord. 
MAR'LOW (Great), a borough, market-town, anci 
parish, in Buckinghamshire, is fituated near the banks of 
the river Thames. The manor, called in Domefday book 
Merlaw, belonged, previous to. the Norman conquest, to 
the earls of Mercia ; but, being feized by king William., 
was given by him to hia queen Matilda. Henry I. who 
inherited it from his mother, beftowed it on his natural 
foil Robert de Melhent, afterwards earl of Glouceiter, 
from whom it palled with that title to the Clares and De- 
fpencers, and from the latter, by female heirs, to the Beau¬ 
champs and Nevilles, earls of Warwick. It continued 
