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IN MARCUM. XXI. - 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 MARCUM. XXI.

  • When Marcus comes from Mins',6 he still doth swear,
  • By “come7 on seven,” that all is lost and gone:
  • But that's not true; for he hath lost his hair,
  • Only for that he came too much on1 one.

[6]Dyce conjectures that this was the name of some person who kept an ordinary where gaming was practised. (MS. “for newes.”)

[7]So eds. B, C.—Isham copy and ed. A “a seaven.”

[1]So MS. with some eccentricities of spelling (“to much one one”) Old eds. “at.”