THE COLLECTED POEMS OF
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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EDITED BY
Patrick Cheney
Pemsyhania State Unversity
Brian J. Striar
Unser Fide
New York Oxford
‘OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
2006EusciaV
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Bind fase my hands, chey have deserved chains,
‘While rage is absent, eake some fiend the pains;
For rage against my wench moved my rash arm,
(My mistress weeps whom my mad hand did harm.
might have chen my parents deat misused, 5
Or holy gods with cruel strokes abuse.
‘Why, Ajax, master of che seven-fold shield,
Butchered the flocks he found in spacious eld,
‘And he who on his mother venged his sce
‘Against the Destiniesdurse sharp darts séquite, 10
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fone the Fates and the Fuses eg, Stes snd Taber 360),46 ‘THE COLLECTED POEMS OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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So ir she was, Atalanta she resembled,
‘Before whose bow th’ Arcadian wild beasts trembled;
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‘Her perjuted Theseus’ ying vows and sis;
So, chaste Minerva, did Castander fall,
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‘That I was mad, and barbarous all mea cried,
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Nor shrill her coup
Which oer wast her
Like water gushing from consuming snow.
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[My blood the ears wete that from her descended. 60
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‘My feared hands thrice buck she did repel.
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