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AD MUSAM. I. - Christopher Marlowe, The Works of Christopher Marlowe, vol. 3 (Poems) [1598]

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The Works of Christopher Marlowe, ed. A.H. Bullen (London: John C. Nimmo, 1885). Vol. 3.

Part of: The Works of Christopher Marlowe, 3 vols.

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AD MUSAM. I.

  • Fly, merry Muse, unto that merry town,
  • Where thou mayst plays, revels, and triumphs see:
  • The house of fame, and theatre of renown,
  • Where all good wits and spirits love to be.
  • Fall in between their hands that praise and love thee.2
  • And be to them a laughter and a jest:
  • But as for them which scorning shall reprove3 thee,
  • Disdain their wits, and think thine own the best.
  • But if thou find any so gross and dull,
  • That thinks I do to private taxing4 lean,

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  • Bid him go hang, for he is but a gull,
  • And knows not what an epigram doth1 mean,
  • Which taxeth,2 under a particular name,
  • A general vice which merits public blame.

[2]So Dyce.—Old eds. “loue and praise thee,” MS. “Seeme to love thee.”

[3]So Isham copy and MS. Ed A “approve.”

[4]Censuring. Dyce compares the Induction to the Knight of the Burning Pestle

  • “Fly far from hence
  • All private taxes.”

[1]So MS.—Old eds. “does.”

[2]MS. “Which carrieth under a peculiar name”