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IN PLURIMOS. V. - 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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IN PLURIMOS. V.1

  • Faustinus, Sextus, Cinna, Ponticus,
  • With Gella, Lesbia, Thais, Rhodope,
  • Rode all to Staines,1 for no cause serious,
  • But for their mirth and for their lechery.
  • Scarce were they settled in their lodging, when
  • Wenches with wenches, men with men fell out,
  • Men with their wenches, wenches with their men;
  • Which straight dissolves2 this ill-assembled rout.
  • But since the devil brought them thus together,
  • To my discoursing thoughts it is a wonder,

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  • Why presently as soon as they came thither,
  • The self-same devil did them part asunder.
  • Doubtless, it seems, it was a foolish devil,
  • That thus did part them ere they did some evil.

[1]MS. “In meritriculas Londinensis.”

[1]MS. “Ware.”

[2]MS. “dissolv'd”