The Poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson
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Excerpt from The Poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson: Edited, With Critical and Historical Notes Historical Separate, Memoirs of the Three Writers Robert Greene was born at Norwich in 1560; or, as some of his biographers state, 1550, which is scarcely reconcilable with the probable date of his matriculation at the University. We learn upon his own authority that his parents were persons well-known and respected amongst their neighbours for ´their gravity and honest life;´ and it may be presumed that they were in good circumstances, as they not only placed their son at Cambridge, where he took his degree of A.B. at St, John´s College in 1578, but afterwards sent him to travel through Spain and Italy and other parts of the continent - a costly undertaking in the sixteenth century. The grand tour, fruitful of advantages to those who knew how to profit by it, was productive only of evil to Greene; for it is certain that he brought back with him from his foreign experiences those habits of profligacy which corrupted the remainder of his life. ´At that time,´ he tells us, ´whosoever was worst, I knew myself as bad as he; for being new come from Italy (where I learned all the villanies under the heavens), I was drowned in pride, whoredom was my daily exercise, and gluttony with drunkenness was my only delight.´ This is a miserable opening to the life of a man of genius; and, unfortunately, the vest of the scanty narrative is of the same character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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