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The Works of Christopher Marlowe [ed. by G. Robinson].
The Works of Christopher Marlowe - ed. by G. Robinson Author:Christopher Marlowe General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1826 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Hero and Leander: Begunne by Christopher Marloe, and finished by George Chapman. Ut nectar, Ingenium. At London. Imprinted for John Flasket, and are to be sold in Faille's Church Yard, at the signe of the Blacke Beare, 1606. This poem, founded on the story of Hero and Leander, as related by Musaeus, was projected by Marlowe, who, however, only lived to finish the first and second Sestyads, and to commence the third. The part completed by Marlowe was published in 1598, and was reprinted, with a continuation by George Chapman in 1600, and again in 1606 and 16S7. Sir Egerton Bridges almost entirely reprinted it in his Restitnta, and a complete edition forms No. VIII. of the Select Early Engliih Poets. Another continuation of Marlowe's unfinished poem was written by Henry Petowe, and published in 1598. chapter{Section 4 THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST SESTYAD. Hero's description, and her loves; The Fane of Venus, where he moves His worthy love-suit, and attains ; Whose bibs the wrath of Fates restrains, For Cupid's grace to Mercury: Which tale the author doth imply. HERO AND LEANDER. THE FIRST SESTYAD. On Hellespont, guilty of true love's blood, In view and opposite two cities stood, Sea-borderers, disjoin'd by Neptune's might: The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight. At Sestos Hero dwelt; Hero the fair, Whom young Apollo courted for her hair; And offer'd as a dower his burning throne, Where she should sit for men to gaze upon. The outside of her garments was of lawn, The lining, purple silk, with gilt stars drawn, Her wide sleeves green, and border'd with a grove, Where Venus...« less