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The Works of John Marston. Volume 3

Note 395 — ACT V.

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The allusion is to Daniel’s Complaint of Rosamond, 1592, and to Michael Drayton’s Complaint of Gaveston, 1593. I cannot discover any abuse of Daniel or Drayton in Hall’s Satires. I have elsewhere suggested (Marlowe, iii. 243) that Marston is here glancing at Sir John Davies’ forty-fifth epigram, in which a conceit from Daniel’s Rosamond is ridiculed.

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