ABSTRACT

Gabriel Harvey (c.1550–1631) was a frustrated academic politician, at once an ornament to Cambridge as a rhetorician, and an embarrassment as a personality. The friend and promoter of Spenser, in an evil hour he became involved in pamphlet controversy with the Elizabethan Juvenal, Thomas Nashe. The piece reproduced below is obscure: it may just possibly not refer to Marlowe at all.