Even ashes of lovers find no rest. and this which is (as he said) a picture of himselfe. I doubt that love is rather deafe than blinde for else it could not bee that shee. Whom I adore so much should so slight mee, and cast my sute behinde. I'm sure my Language to her is as sweet In numbers of as subtile feete, that sits in shadow of Apollos tree. O, but my conscious feares that flye my thoughts betweene, prompt mee, that shee hath seene my hundred of Gray haires. told Six and forty yeares. read so much Waste as she cannot embrace my Mountaine belly and my rockye face. and all these through her eies, have stop'd her eares. Ianuary 19. 1619. He is a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and Scorner of others, given rather to losse a friend, than a jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him (especiallie after drink) which is one of the Elements in which he liveth, a dissembler of ill parts which raigne in him, a bragger of some good that he wanteth, thinketh nothing well bot what either he himself, or some of his friends and Countrymen hath said or done. he is passionately kynde and angry, carelesse either to gaine or keep, vindicative, but if he be well answered, at himselt. for any religion as being versed in both. Interpreteth best sayings and deeds often to the worst: oppressed with fantasie, which hath ever mastered his reason, a generall disease in many poets. his inventions are smooth and easie, but above all he excelleth in a translation. when his Play of a Silent woman was first acted, ther was found Verses after on the stage against him, concluding that, that play was well named the Silent Woman. ther was never one man to say Plaudite to it Finis THE BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS EDITED BY G. B. HARRISON A Series of reprints of Elizabethan and Jacobean pamphlets, plays, etc., which will appeal to all who are interested in English Literature, especially of the Shakespearean period. Each Quarto will be an exact reprint of the original text. Cloth, 3/- net; Paper Covers, 2/6 net. ROBERT GREENE: 'A Notable Discovery of Coosnage.' (1591) Conny Catching.' Part II. I. { III. { (1592) (1592) 'A Disputation between a Hee Conny Catcher and a Shee Conny Catcher.' (1592) GABRIEL HARVEY: II. Fovre Letters Greene.' (1592) HENRIE CHETTLE: IV. especially touching Robert 6 Kind-Hartes Dreame.' (1592) BEN JONSON: 'Discoveries.' (First printed 1640) V. {Notes of Conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden.' (1619) ROBERT GREENE: VI. 'The Groatsworth of Witte bought with a Million of Repentance.' (1592) "The Repentance of Robert Greene Maister of Artes.' (1592) Other Volumes in Preparation LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD. |