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IN DACUM. XXX. - 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 DACUM.1 XXX.

  • Amongst the poets Dacus number'd is,
  • Yet could he never make an English rhyme:
  • But some prose speeches I have heard of his,
  • Which have been spoken many a hundred time;
  • The man that keeps the elephant hath one,
  • Wherein he tells the wonders of the beast;
  • Another Banks pronounced long agone,
  • When he his curtal's2 qualities express'd:
  • He first taught him that keeps the monuments
  • At Westminster, his formal tale to say,

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  • And also him which puppets represents,
  • And also him which with the ape doth play
  • Though all his poetry be like to this,
  • Amongst the poets Dacus numbered is.

[1]Samuel Daniel. See Ep. xlv,

[2]All the information about Banks‘wonderful horse Moroccus (” the little horse that ambled on the top of Pauls”) is collected in Mr. Halli-well-Phillpps’ Memoranda on Love's Labour Lost.