IN OBITUM+ HONORATISSIMI VIRI, ROGERI MANWOOD, MILITIS, QUÆSTORII REGINALIS CAPITALIS BARONIS. NOCTIVAGI terror, ganeonis triste flagellum, * Nan] MS. "Wen." (i. e. Wench), In obitum, &c.] This epitaph was first printed by Mr. Collier (History of the English Stage, &c. 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.-For a notice of Sir Roger Manwood, see Account of Marlowe and his Writings. |