Ye shall have twenty more. 110

110

Will. My fingers itches to be at the peasant. Ah, that

I might be set a work thus through the year, and

that murder would grow to an occupation, that a

man might follow without danger of law:—zounds, I

warrant I should be warden of the company! Come,

let us be going, and we’ll bait at Rochester, where

I’ll give thee a gallon of sack to handsel the match

withal.

[32]

II. i. 51. Mr. Bullen says that such a line as this ‘might have come straight out of Tamburlaine.’ He goes on, ‘but in no other part of the play can we find a trace of Marlowe’s influence.’ Cf.—

II.

‘He sent a shaggy tottered staring slave,

That when he speaks draws out his grisly beard,

And winds it twice or thrice about his ear;

Whose face has been a grindstone for men’s swords.’

Jew of Malta, IV. v. 6.

IV.

and Shakespeare’s—

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