Besides, in his "Kind Hartes Dreame," produced about three months after the death of his friend Robert Greene, on September 3d, 1592, he speaks generally of his connection with the dramatic poets of that day, as if it were not newly formed.

Was it a dreame, or did I see it playne?

My love is now awake out of her dreame, And her fayre eyes, like stars that dimmed were With darksome cloud, now shew theyr goodly beams More bright then Hesperus his head doth rere.

I intreat you both, [Sidenote: dreame]

Which dreames indeed are Ambition: for the very substance of the Ambitious, is meerely the shadow of a Dreame.

A dreame it selfe is but a shadow.

Dye any way, Dye in a dreame: he that first gave us honours Allowes us also safe waies to preserve 'em, To scape the hands of infamy and tirrany.

'Tis my husbands pleasure, Affrighted with some Dreame he had last night; For I can guess no other cause.

Asleepe Alreadie, or doe I dreame?

If shee be a sleepe she was not us'd to talke thus: She has some hideous dreame.

Oh you have delivered me From such a dreame I quake to thinke upon't.

Why, you dare fight, it seemes, and I was told You were no Cavellier, a very dreame [droane?]

My eyes to so much darkenes; yet my dreame Was full of rapture, such as I with all My wakeing sence would flie to meet.

This done, within a Cloud formd like a Throne, She to whom love had consecrate this night, My Mistresse, did descend and, comeing toward me, My soule that ever wakes, angrie to see My body made a prisoner and so mock'd, Shook of the chaines of sleepe, least I should loose Essentiall pleasure for a dreame.

That man's too much compos'd of phleame Will loose his Mistress for a Dreame.

Why, alas Neece, y'are so smeard with this willfull widdows three-yeeres blacke weede, that I never come to you, but I dreame of Coarses, and Sepulchres, and Epitaphs, all the night after, and therefore adew deere Neece.

Good Vnckle be content, for now shall I never dreame of contentment.

gett a good dreame.

Art thou awake, or is all this a dreame.

A dreame of death.

Eyther I dreame or this is Ferdinand.

19.In old books, we sometimes find the word I written for the adverb ay, yes: as, "To dye, to sleepe; To sleepe, perchance to dreame; I, there's the rub."Shakspeare, Old Copies.

Certain lines of the prologue Remember all is but a Poets dreame, The first he had in Phoebus holy bowre, But not the last, unlesse the first displease have not unnaturally been taken to mean that the piece was the first venture of the author; but on investigation this will be seen to be impossible, since the constant reminiscence of Marlowe in the construction of the verse points to 1588 or at earliest to 1587 as the date.

You little dreame of. Mar.

There is one time when any woman can freely kiss ye man she loves: in ye dreame.