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IN OBITUM HONORATISSIMI VIRI, ROGERI
MANWOOD, MILITIS, QUÆSTORII REGINALIS CAPITALIS BARONIS

First printed by Payne Collier ( History of the English Stage, etc.
p. xliv.–prefixed to the first vol. of his Shakespeare ) from a MS. on the back of the title-page of a copy of Hero and Leander, ed. 1629, where it is subscribed with Marlowe’s name.

NOCTIVAGI terror, ganeonis triste flagellum,
Et Jovis Alcides, rigido vulturque latroni,
Urn� subtegitur. Scelerum, gaudete, nepotes!
Insons, luctific� sparsis cervice capillis,
Plange! fori lumen, venerandæ gloria legis,
Occidit: heu, secum effœtas Acherontis ad oras
Multa abiit virtus. Pro tot virtutibus uni,
Livor, parce viro; non audacissimus esto
Illius in cineres, cujus tot millia vultus
Mortalium attonuit: sic cum te nuntia Ditis
Vulneret exsanguis, feliciter ossa quiescant,
Famaque marmorei superet monumenta sepulcri.