Note 14 — THE COMPLETE PLAYS OF ROBERT GREENE

Greene's satirical use in Never too Late of the words "Ave Cæsar," which occur in Edward III., Act i. Sc. I, and his connecting of them with a cobbler, seem to constitute Fleay's case. The matter has already been mentioned in connection with Greene's jealousy of Marlowe. The latest editor of Edward III., C. F. Tucker Brooke, in The Shakespeare Apocrypha, ignores the supposition that the play may be by Marlowe and dismisses the theory that it was by two hands. He puts forward the claims of Peele, not, however, with great weight.