"...lofty Shakespeare art again r e v i v e d ? Showst thy selfe twise lived.."
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Virbius like now show'st thy selfe twise liv'd,
The fatally threatened poet-genius Marlowe had to fake his death (1593) und to live a second life writing under many pseudonyms such as Shake-speare he borrowed (for safety reasons) from a living man in London named Shakspere.
Most likely he wrote (as "John Warren") the dedicatory poem devoted to himself as William Shakespeare:
Note some remarkable conspicious points of the farce:
Warren differentiates between 2 personal entities and lifes
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L1: The art of lofty Shakespeare (not of the person) had been againe revived?
L1: The art of lofty Shakespeare (not of the person) had been againe revived?
L2: Marlowe alias Shakespeare corresponds to "Virbius ": Virbius as the italian counterpart of greek Hippolytus,who had been trampled to death by the horses of Poseidon, and who was restored to life by Asclepius (Virbius' ressurection)
He showes himself "twise lived", in his second concealed life as revived art of Shakespeare...
L3: it is (it was) love (admiration) shown to him (the poet Shakespeare)
L4: the labor was his (the "incognito poet" genius alias NN) , the glory belonged to the other (Shakepeare)
L5: these dedicatory learned poems belong to the poets second life (his after-birth)
L6: Shakespeare's name (not the person) remains immortal on earth
L7: Will (Shakspere Stratford?) should enable the learned to understand (to see,)
L8: that the Muses gift (of Shakespeare) were infused to another (on thee)
L9: the mythological god of poets, Momus, personifiction of satire and mockery , may barke Carpine????
L10: the ignorant slave Davus of Pamphilus ("Andria", comedy of Terentius, adapted by Macchiavel!)
L11: Some know of the worth of the poets desert (!)
L12: and are capable of judgment to discerne the true poets Art
L3: it is (it was) love (admiration) shown to him (the poet Shakespeare)
L4: the labor was his (the "incognito poet" genius alias NN) , the glory belonged to the other (Shakepeare)
L5: these dedicatory learned poems belong to the poets second life (his after-birth)
L6: Shakespeare's name (not the person) remains immortal on earth
L7: Will (Shakspere Stratford?) should enable the learned to understand (to see,)
L8: that the Muses gift (of Shakespeare) were infused to another (on thee)
L9: the mythological god of poets, Momus, personifiction of satire and mockery , may barke Carpine????
L10: the ignorant slave Davus of Pamphilus ("Andria", comedy of Terentius, adapted by Macchiavel!)
L11: Some know of the worth of the poets desert (!)
L12: and are capable of judgment to discerne the true poets Art
