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The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

and

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.

Your Marlowe's page I close, my Shakespeare's ope.
How welcome—after gong and cymbal's din—
The continuity, the long, slow slope,
And vast curves of the gradual violin!

William Watson.