Nebuchadnezzar's are mere modest pretensions compared with the thundering vaunts of this Scythian Shepherd.

He comes in drawn by conquered kings, and reproaches these _pampered jades of Asia_ that they can _draw but twenty miles a day_.

Till I saw this passage with my own eyes, I never believed that it was anything more than a pleasant burlesque of mine Ancient's.

But I can assure my readers that it is soberly set down in a play, which their ancestors took to be serious.
_Edward the Second_ .-- In a very different style from mighty Tamburlaine is the Tragedy of Edward the Second.

The reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints, which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene ancient or modern with which I am acquainted.
_The Rich Jew of Malta_ .-- Marlowe's Jew does not approach so near to Shakspeare's, as his Edward the Second does to Richard the Second.
Barabas is a mere monster brought in with a large painted nose to please the rabble.