Note 10 — THE COMPLETE PLAYS OF ROBERT GREENE

It may be, though it is not certain, that Greene was attacking Marlowe in the epistle prefixed to his Farewell to Folly (1591), in which he tells the gentleman students that his Mourning Garment had been so popular that the pedlar found the books "too dear for his pack, that he was fain to bargain for the life of Tomliuclin to wrap up his sweet powders in those unsavoury papers." If "Tomliuclin" is a misprint for Tamburlaine this is Greene's most direct and spiteful attack on Marlowe.