Note 371 — ACT V.
Reading edition
It has been suggested, without the slightest shadow of foundation, that the allusion is to the death of Marlowe. Dr. Nicholson (Grosart’s Marston, p. xlvi.) says:—“If Tubrio be Marlowe, then the hitherto unknown courtesan was the hermaphroditic ‘Moll Cutpurse’” At the earliest computation Moll was born in 1584-5 (see Middleton, iv. 3); and Marlowe died in 1593.—(In old ed. the line runs:—“For from good Tubrio looke the mortall stab.” The correction is made in the author’s list of errata.)