Note 8 — Library of Canterbury.

From an address prefixed to the Satires, and from another prefixed to the Certaine Poems, it is evident that they were intended for, if not committed to, the Press. The former appear, from various allusions to Marston’s Scourge of Villanie, published in 1598, to have been written near that period. Probably they might be suppressed, in consequence of the order towards the close of Elizabeth’s reign, signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, that Marston’s Pigmalion’s Image and Certaine Satyres, Hall’s Satires, Snarlinge Satires, &c., should be burnt, and “that no Satyres or Epigrams be printed hereafter.”