Note 75a — VI—THE FIRST APPEAL TO THE READING PUBLIC

See Ovid’s Amores, liber i. elegy xv. ll. 35-6. Ovid’s Amores, or Elegies of Love, were translated by Marlowe about 1589, and were first printed without a date on the title-page, probably about 1597. Marlowe’s version had probably been accessible in manuscript in the eight years’ interval. Marlowe rendered the lines quoted by Shakespeare thus: