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IN HEYWODUM. XXIX. - 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 HEYWODUM. XXIX.

  • Heywood,2 that did in epigrams excel,
  • Is now put down since my light Muse arose:3
  • As buckets are put down into a well,
  • Or as a schoolboy putteth down his hose.

[2]John Heywood, the well-known epigrammatist and interlude-wnter. His Proverbs were edited in 1874, with a pleasantly-written Introduction and useful notes, by Mr. Julian Sharman.

[3]Dyce refers to a passage of Sir John Harmgton's Metamorphosis of Ajax, 1596 —” This Haywood for his proverbs and epigrams is not yet put down by any of our country, though one [marginal note, M. Davies] doth indeed come near him, that graces him the more in saying he puts, him down.” He quotes also from Bastard's Ckrestoleros, 1598 (Lib. II. Ep. 15; Lib. in. Ep. 3, and Freeman's Rubbe and a Great Cast (Pt in Ep. 100), allusions to the present epigram.