Note 9 — THE COMPLETE PLAYS OF ROBERT GREENE
Reading edition
If we are to believe that Edward III. is Marlowe's play the reference of this passage to Marlowe is made certain, for Greene ridicules the words 'Ave Cæsar' that occur in the play. The only other play in which the words are known to occur is Orlando Furioso by Greene himself. It would be too much to say that their use there is in ridicule of Marlowe, though even that is possible.