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IN TITUM. VI. - 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 TITUM. VI.

  • Titus, the brave and valorous young gallant,
  • Three years together in this town hath been;
  • Yet my Lord Chancellor's3 tomb he hath not seen,
  • Nor the new water-work,4 nor the elephant.
  • I cannot tell the cause without a smile,—
  • He hath been in the Counter all this while.

[3]Sir Christopher Hatton's tomb. See Dugdale's History of St. Paul's Cathedral, ed. 1658, p. 83.

[4]“The new water-work was at London Bridge. The elephant was an object of great wonder and long remembered. A curious illustration of this is found in the Metamorphosis of the Walnut Tree of Borestall, written about 1645, when the poet [William Basse] brings trees of all descriptions to the funeral, particularly a gigantic oak—

  • “The youth of these our times that did behold
  • This motion strange of this unwieldy plant
  • Now boldly brag with us that are men old,
  • That of our age they no advantage want,
  • Though in our youth we saw an elephant.”

Cunningham