and in blank verfe, in 1600. At length George Chapman, the tranflator of Homer, completed, but with a striking inequality, Marlow's unfinished verfion, and printed it at London in quarto, 1606. His plays were-I. Tamerlane, the great Scythian Emperor, 2 parts, afcribed by Philips erroneously to Newton (fee p. 98.) -II. The rich Jew of Maltha.-III. The tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. John Fauftus.-IV. Luft's Dominion; publifhed at London in 1661 in 80. by Francis Kirkman, jun. a bookfeller and great trader in plays; from which was ftolen the greater part of Aphra Behn's Abdelazer, or the More's Revenge, Lond. 1677.-V. The tragedy of King Edward II.-VI. The tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage, of which he was affifted in the compofition by Thomas Nash, who published it in 1594.*

He was a man of licentious manners and free opinions, which were probably much exaggerated by the severity of the Puritans. He died before 1593 of a wound which he fuffered in a a fray at a brothel, from his own fword being forced upon him.t

His tragedies, fays Warton, manifeft traces

* Wood's Ath. I. p. 338-Tann. Bib. p. 512-Wart. III. p. 434,

435.

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of a juft dramatic conception, but they abound with tedious and uninterefting fcenes, or with fuch extravagances as proceeded from a want of judgment, and thofe barbarous ideas of the times, over which it was the peculiar gift of Shakespeare's genius alone to triumph and predominate. Although Jonfon mentions Marlow's "Mighty Mufe," yet the higheft teftimony Marlow has received is from his cotemporary Drayton.*

But one of his poems has retained a just popularity to the present day, by which his genius may be estimated. This is The Paffionate Shepherd to his Love, beginning "Come live with me, and be my love," to which Sir Walter Raleigh wrote a reply.

On Philips's character of Marlow, Warton remarks, that the Theatrum Poetarum" is a work which difcovers many touches of Milton's hand;" and after citing this character, he adds, "criticifms of this kind were not common, after the national taste had been just corrupted by the falfe and capricious refinements of the court of Charles the fecond."+

In this Elegy " To this dearly beloved friend Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poefie."-Wart, ibid. † P. 440.

GEORGE

GEORGE TURBERVILLE

Is merely named by Philips amongst several other poets of Elizabeth's reign. He was a younger fon of Nicholas Turberville of Whitchurch in Dorsetshire, fon of Henry TurberIville of the fame place, who was the fifth fon of John Turberville of Bere-Regis, a very ancient and refpectable family. He was born at Whitchurch, educated at Wickham's fchool at Winchester, became perpetual Fellow of Whitchurch 1561, left it before he was graduated the year following, and went to one of the Inns of Court, where he was much admired for his poetical talents. Afterwards his ready command of his pen obtained him the reputation of a man of bufinefs, and he was appointed Secretary to Thomas Randolph, Efq. on his embaffy to the Emperor of Ruffia. On his arrival in that country, he employed his leisure hours in writing "Poems defcribing the places and manners of the country and people

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of Ruffia," 1568. Written to Edw. Dancie, Edm. Spenfer, &c. at London. See in the Voyages of R. Hakeluyt, printed 1598, vol. I. p. 384, 385, &c. After his return he was esteemed a very accomplished gentleman, and his company was much fought by all ingenious men, especially after he published his "Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs, and Sonnets, Lond. 1570, 8°. fome, if not most of which, were published a little before that time. This book seems to be the fame, which was printed with additions, under his name, in 8°. 1587, with the title of "Tragical Tales,* Epitaphs and Sonnets," &c. He also tranflated into English, The Eclogues of John Bapt. Fiera Mantuan, Lond. 1594, which eclogues Turberville turned into English verse, and added an argument to every eclogue. About the fame time he tranflated into English verfe, The heroical Epiftles of the learned Poet, Pub. Ovid. Nafo, with Aulus Sabinus's anfwers to certain of the fame,t 1567, followed by two editions, in 1569, and 1600 It is dedicated to Thomas Howard, Viscount Bindon. Six of the epiftles are rendered in blank verfe; the reft in fourlined ftanzas. The printer is John Charle

*In profe, felected from various Italian Novelifts, Wart. III. p. 475. † Wood's Ath. I. p. 275. Wart. III. p. 420.

wood,

wood, who appears to have been printer to the family of Howard, and was probably retained as a domestic for that liberal purpose in Arundel-Houfe, the feat of elegance and literature till Cromwell's ufurpation. Turberville was a polite fcholar, and fome of the paffages are not unhappily turned.*+

He was living in great efteem in 1594, but it is not known when he died. He was a skilful mafter of the modern languages.

There were two other George Turbervilles living in this reign, both natives of Dorsetfhire, of whom one was a Commoner of Gloucefter-Hall, 1581, at the age of 18, and the other a Student of Magdalen Hall, 1595, aged 17. But which of the three was the author of the following books Wood could not tell.-I. Effays politic and moral, 1608, 80-II. The Book of Falconrye or Hawking, heretofore published by G. Turberville, Gent. and now newly revived, corrected, and augmented by another hand, Lond. 1611. qu. adorn'd with various cuts. With this book is printed and bound The Noble Art of Venery or Hunting, &c. tranflated and collected out of the best ap

*Wart. III. p. 421. † Thomas Harvey, Gent. afterwards tranflated the Eclogues, and borrowed without acknowledgment from Turberville. Qu. Whether the fame, who was first Master of Kington School, Herefordshire, founded 1610? Wood ut fupra.