_b¢ lEnoIi_b Dramati_t_ CHRISTOPHER MARLO\VE VOLUME THE SECOND PINDAR, Olym$. vii. THE WORKS OF (,HT , ,.;_ EDITED BY A. H. BULLEN, B.A. HPfRkOt_OE _ CHi_"_'I'OPHER IN THREE VOLUMES VOLUME THE SECOND LONDON 14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND, W.C. MDCCCLXXXV _ ___ BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE THE JEW OF MALTA . :t EDWARD THE SECOND IX5 THE MASSACRE AT PARIS . 235 THE TRAGEDY OF DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE • 299 PUBLISHER'S NOTICE. Four hundred copies of this Edition have been pnnted and the type distributed. No more will be]mblished. THE JEW OF MALTA. VOL. If. A OF the few of Malta there is no earlier edition than the 4to. of z633 , whichwas pubhshed under theauspicesofthewell-knowndramatist Thomas Heywood. The title is :--The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iao of Malta. As it was playd before the aYing and Queene, zn His Majesties Theatre at White.IlalI, by her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit. Written by Christopher Marlo. London : Prtnled by Z B. for Nicholas Vavasour, and are to be sold at his Shop in the Inner-Temple, neer¢ the Church. x633. No later 4to. appeared. TO MY WORTHY FRIEND_ MASTEK THOMAS HAMMON, OF GRAY'S INN_ ._'C. THIS play, composed by so worthy an author as Mr. Marlowe, and the part of the Jew presented by so unimitable an actor as Mr. Alleyn, being in this later age commended to the stage ; as I ushered it unto the Court_ and presented it to the Cock-pit, with these prolog'ues and epilogues here inserted, so now being newly brought to the press, I was loth it should be published v_thout the ornament of an Epistle ; making chome of you unto whom to devote it ; than whom (of all those gentlemen aud acquaintance, within the compass of my long knowledge) there is none more able to tax ignorance, or attribute right to merit. Sir, you have been pleased to grace some of mine own works with your courteous patronage ; 1 I hope this wil| not be the worse accepted, because commended by me ; over whom, none can claim more power or privilege than yourself. I had no better a new-year's gift to present you with ; receive it therefore as a continuance of that inviolable oblLgement, by which, he rests still engaged ; who as he ever hath, shall always remain, Tuissimus : THo. HEYWOOD. ' 1 Heywood dedicated to Thomas Hammon the Second Part of the Fair M_dd e/the _Ve_t {I63I), and the _irst Part of the.Iron Age (x632) THE JEW OF MALTA. '- 0 THE PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT COURT. GRACIOUS and Great, that we so boldly dare, ('Mongst other plays that now in fashion are) To present this, writ many years agone, And in that age thought second unto none, We humbly crave your pardon : We pursue The story of a rich and famous Jew Who lived ill Malta : you shall find him still, In all his projects, a sound Machxavill; And that's his character. He that hath past So many censures, is now come _t last To have your princely cara " grace you him ; then You crown the action, and renown the pen. EPILOGUE. IT is our fear (dread sovereiga) we have bin Too tedious; neithercan'tbe lessthansin To wrong yourprincelpay tience: Ifwe have, (Thus low dejectedw)e your pardoncrave: And ifaughthereoffendyour carorsight, We onlyactand speak what otherswrit_ THE PROLOGUE TO THE STAGE. AT THE COCK-PIT. VIE know not how our play may pass this stage, But by the best of poets i in that age The Malta Jew had being, and was made ; And he, then by the best of actors s played ; In Hero and Leander, one did gain A lasting memory : m Tamburlmne, This Jew, with others many, th' other wan The attribute of peerless, being a man Whom we may rank with (domg no one wrong) Proteus for shapes, and Roscius for a tongue, So could he speak, so vary ; nor is't hate To merit, in him s who doth personate Oar Jew thin day ; nor is it his ambition To exceed or equal, being of condition More modest : this is all that he intends, (And that too, at the urgence of some friends) To prove his best, and, if none here gainsay it, The part he hath studied, and mtends to play it. 1 "Ma.rlo." Marginal note in the old copy. s "Allin." Marginalnote mthe old copy. In the (old) ShakespeareSociety's pubhcatmns there Is a memoirby J. P. Collierof the celebratedactor, the founder of Dulwich College, Edward Alleyn. "Perkins." Marginal note in the old copy Richard Perkinswas an actor of great abthty. At the end of the W'Mtt/)ev2d Webster speaks of the "we/l- approvedindustryof my friend Master Perkins," and adds that l, the worth of hts actmn dtd crown both the beginning and end." He took the part of Capt. Goodlackm Heywood'sFa_r_faido/_ /.Vest,of Sir Jolm Bclfare m Shirley's ;_'ea_'_ofg,Hanno in Nabbed Hannibal a_d Sci_'o, and of Fita- water in Davenport'sKtngJok.n a_l _liIda. From Wright'sHLrt.ar_ Ha.._ D'_mscawe learn that he dted "some years beforethe Restoration." EPILOGUE, IN graving, with Pygmalion to contend ; Or painting, with Apelles ; doubtless the end Must be disgrace : our actor did not so, He only aimed to go, but not out-go. Nor think that this day any prize 1 was played ; Here were no bets at all, no wagers laid ; 2 All the ambition that his mind doth swell, Is but to hear from you (by me) 'twas well. 1 "A metaphor borrowed from the fencing-school, priz¢_ being played for certain degrees in the schools where the Art of Defence was taught,--degrees it appears, of Masters Provost, and Scholar "_Dyce's Ska&e$_eare G/o._ra_y. 2 A friend of Aileyn's backed him for a wager to excel George Peele m acting any part that had been sustained by Knell or Bentley. See Dyce's Greene a_d Peele (ed. zB6x, pp. 330, 33x)- In the Intraducgio_ to the KmgI_t of eke Burm=g Pestle the Cttxzen says that his pre.ntt=¢ ]Ralph "should have played Jerontmo with a shoemaker for a wager." PERSONS REPRESENTED. FERNEZE, Gover#or of Malta. SEL1M CALYMATH, SOn Of the Grand Seignior. DON LODOWICK t g._e Governor's Son, in love with ABIGAIL. DON MATHIAS, also in love _ilh her. MARTIN DES BOSCO, V_ce-AdmtralofSgOaln. BARABAS, tke Jew of Malta. ITHAMORE_, Barabas' slave, ]_ARNARD INE_ JAco_o, I Friars. PILIA-BORSA, a Bully. Two Merchants. Three Jews. Bassoes, Knights, Officers, Reader, Messengers, Slaves, " and Carpenters. KATHARINE, motker of DON MATHIAS. AI_IGAIL, tke Jew's Dau£Mer. Abbess. Two Nuns. BELLAMIR/_ a Courtesan. _L_CHIAVEI o t]_t Prologue. "* Scene--MaRa. THE JEW OF MALTA. o Enter MACHIAVEL. MacMavel. Albeit the world thinks Machiavel is dead, Yet was his soul but flown beyond the Alps ; And now the Guise 1 is dead, is come from France, To view this land, and frolic with his friends. To some perhaps my name is odious, But such as love me guard me from their tongues ; And let them know that I am Machiavel, And weigh not men, and therefore not men's words. Admired I am of those that hate me most. Though some speak openly against my books, xo Yet they will read me, and thereby attain To Peter's chair : and when they cast me off, Are poisoned by my climbing followers. I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past ! I am ashamed to hear such fooleries. Many will talk of title to a crown : 1The Duede Guise.who orgamsed the Massacreof St. Bartholomew. He wasassassinatedinx588. Io Tke 7ew of Malta. What right had Casar to the empery ?1 Might first mad e kings t and laws were then most sure ao When li'_ethe Draco's _ they were writ in blood. Hence comes it that a strong-built citade-T-'_ Commands much more than letters can import ; Which maxim had [but s] Phalaris observed, He had never bellowed, in a brazen bull, Of great one's envy. Of the poor petty wights Let me be envied and not pitibd ! But whither am I bound ? I come not, I, To read a lecture here in Britainy, _ But to present the tragedy of a Jew, 30 Who smiles to see how full his bags are crammed, Which money was not got without my means. I crave but this--grace him as he deserves, And let him not be entertained the worse Because he favours me. [Exit. 1 Thls is Dyce's correction for _'emplre." Old ed. "the Draneus." s As a word Is required to complete the verse, I have followed Cunning- ham in Inserting "but." • All the ediuons give "Britain." For the sake of the metre I read "Brittany "--a form found m lldzoard II., il. a, 1. 4a. i ( II ) ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. Enter BARABAS in Ai$ caunting-/wuse , with hea2Osof gold before him. Bar. So that of thus much that return was made : And of the third part of the Persian ships, There was the venture summed and satisfied. As for those Sabans, x and the men of Uz, That bought my Spanish oils and wines of Greece, Here have I purst their paltry silverlings. _ Fie ; what a trouble 'tis to count this trash.