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IN CYPRIUM. XXII. - 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 CYPRIUM. XXII.

  • The fine youth Cyprius is more terse and neat
  • Than the new garden of the Old Temple is;
  • And still the newest fashion he doth get,
  • And with the time doth change from that to this,
  • He wears a hat now of the flat-crown block,2
  • The treble ruff,3 long coat, and doublet French;
  • He takes tobacco, and doth wear a lock,4
  • And wastes more time in dressing than a wench.
  • Yet this new-fangled youth, made for these times,
  • Doth, above all, praise old George5 Gascoigne's rhymes.6

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[2]Shape or fashion; properly the wooden mould on which the crown of a hat is shaped.

[3]So MS.—Old eds. “ruffes.”

[4]Love-lock; a lock of hair hanging down the shoulder in the left side It was usually plaited with ribands.

[5]So MS. and eds. B, C.—Not in Isham copy or ed. A.

[6]Gascoigne's “rhymes” have been edited in two thick volumes by Mr Carew Hazlitt. He died on 7th October 1577. In Gabriel Harvey's Letter Book (recently edited by Mr. Edward Scott for the Camden Society) there are some elegies on him.