...edax rerum, whats that will last alwayes ? The Sea exhaled by droppes will in continuance bee drie, and Seneca, let blood line by line and page by page, at length must needes die to our Stage ; which makes his famished followers to imitate the Kidde in Msop, who, enamoured...

...edax rerum, whats that will last alwayes? The Sea exhaled by droppes will in continuance bee drie, and Seneca, let blood line by line and page by page, at length must needes die to our Stage; which makes his famished followers to imitate the Kid in Msop, who, enamoured...

...whole Hamlets, — I should say, handfuls of tragical speeches. But, oh, grief ! Tempus tdax renim, — what is that will last always? The sea, exhaled by...page by page, at length must needs die to our stage." It has most unaccountably been assumed that this passage refers to Shakespeare ; f and it is even so...

...edax rerum, whats that will last alwayes? The Sea exhaled by droppes will in continuance bee drie, and Seneca, let blood line by line and page by page, at length must needes die to our Stage ; which makes his famished followers to imitate the Kid in Aesop, who, enamoured...

...frosty morning, he will afford you whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls of tragical speeches [But] Seneca let blood line by line and page by page, at length must needs die to our stage.'6 According to Nashe, the quick and easy way to write whole Hamlets-ful of tragedies was to...

...Hamlets; I should say whole handfuls of tragical speeches. But, O grief! Tempus edax rerum — what is it that will last always? The sea exhaled by drops will...continuance be 'dry; and Seneca, let blood, line by LEGAL ACQUIREMENTS. 1 5 to the ancient practice of country attorneys who would not employ an agent...

...makes what many have taken to be a pun on the name of the author of this lost play, the Ur-Hamlet: let blood line by line and page by page, at length must needes die to our Stage; which makes his famished followers to imitate the Kid in Aesop, who, enamoured...

...you whole Hamlets ; I should say handfuls of tragical speeches. But O grief: Tempua edax rerum — what is that will last always? The sea exhaled by...page by page, at length must needs die to our stage." Lord Campbell says the innuendo here is. that the said William Shakespeare had been an attorney's clerk,...

...frosty morning, he will afford you whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls of tragical speeches . . . Seneca, let blood line by line and page by page, at length must needs die to our stage." The verse Preface to Heywood's translation of Tbyestes (1560) recounts how the poet in a dream saw...

...edax rerum, whats that will last alwayes ? The Sea exhaled by droppes will in continuance bee drie, and Seneca, let blood line by line and page by page, at length must needes die to our Stage; which makes his famished followers to imitate the Kid in Aesop, who, enamoured...