...Henry Chettle, referring to the imputations in Groats-worth, was to write in December of this year, "With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I neuer be." 21 So Marlowe was sinking; he was, in fact, "Up to the chin in the Pyerean flood," 22 as...

...wrote, personally acquainted with either of the two playwrights who took offense at Greene's attack, "and with one of them I care not if I never be." This playwright, unnamed, was unquestionably Marlowe, who in December 1592 was evidently not a person...

...because on the dead they cannot be a venged, they willfully forge in their conceits a living author . . . With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted,...with one of them I care not if I never be. The other, whom at that time I did not so much spare as since I wish I had, for that, as I have moderated the...

...editor, published an apology. He said he hadn't been acquainted with either of the injured parties, "and with one of them I care not if I never be." About the other one, though, he had second thoughts, having since seen his demeanor, "no less civil...

...wit, in which a letter written to divers play-makers is offensively by one or two of them taken . . . With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be [this is Marlowe, presumably]. . . . The other, whom at that time I did not so much spare, as since...