PROLOGUE

6 JUNE 1588

Four years, eleven months, twenty-four days

Marloe admir’d, whose honey-flowing vaine,

No English writer can as yet attaine.

Whose name in Fames immortall treasurie,

Truth shall record to endless memorie,

Marlo, late mortall, now fram’d all divine,

What soule more happy, than that soule of thine?

HENRY PETOWE, THE SECOND PART OF HERO & LEANDER, CONTEYNING THEIR FURTHER FORTUNES, 1598