Christopher Marlowe - The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Gr. ἡδονη.

From Lat. crista ?

Prune.

Gr. λευκοτης.

Gr. δαψιλης.

Some eds. read "Coyne and impure."

From Gr. οικτος?

Some eds. "in."

"A compound, probably, from ερως and νοσος or νουσος Ionice ." Ed. 1821.

Some modern editors read "sat."

Singer suggested "Alcmaeon."

"Chapman has a passage very similar to this in his Widow's Tears , Act iv.:—

"Old eds. 'prayes,' 'praies,' 'preies,' and 'pryes.'"— Dyce.

Dyce reads "enthrill'd" (a word that I do not remember to have seen).

Did make to spring. Cf. Fourth Sestiad, l. 169.

So the Isham copy. All other editions omit the words "the blood."

"Valure" is frequently found as a form of "value;" but I suspect, with Dyce, that it is here put ( metri causa ) for "valour."

Plot.

Gr. αδολεσχης.

Some eds. "price."

Gr. ἁγνεια

Singer gives a reference to Pausan, x. 5.—Old eds. "Phemonor" and "Phemoner."

Comfits.

"Other some" is a not uncommon form of expression. See Halliwell's Dict. of Archaic and Provincial Words .

Old eds. "their."

Old eds. "his."

A sudden pettishness or freak of fancy. Cf. Two Noble Kinsmen :—

Former editors have not noticed that Chapman is here closely imitating Catullus' Carmen Nuptiale —

Some eds. "starting." Cf. Julius Cæsar , iv. 3, ll. 278-9—

"Old eds. 'much-rong,' 'much rongd,' and 'much-wrong'd.'"— Dyce (who reads "much-wrung").

It should be binds : i.e. , "Leucote flies to the several winds, and, commissioned by the Fates, commands them to restrain their violence." Broughton.