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" From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms And scourging kingdoms with... "
A First View of English Literature - Page 99
by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1923 - 424 pages
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The life of Christopher Marlowe. Tamberlaine the Great, pts. I-II. The Jew ...

Christopher Marlowe - 1826 - 354 pages
...have, in deference to the received opinion, admitted it into the present collection. THE PROLOGUE. FROM jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such...clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine : Threatening the world with high astounding...
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The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare ..., Volume 3

John Payne Collier - 1831 - 526 pages
...expressions Marlow uses in his short prologue, to the first part of Tamburlaine the Great, are important. ' From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, ' And such...clownage keeps in pay, ' We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, ' Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine ' Threatening the world with high astounding...
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William Shakspere: A Biography, Book 2

Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...high pretensions was come to rescue the stage from the dominion of feebleness and buffoonery : — " From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We '11 lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine, Threat'ning...
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...claims to have introduced a new form of composition : — " From jigging veins of rhyming mother-U'tis, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war," &c. Accordingly, nearly the whole drama, consisting of a first and second part, is in...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...claims to have introduced a new form of composition : — " From jigging veins of rhyming mother-teits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war," &c. Accordingly, nearly the whole drama, consisting of a first and second part, is in...
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Kritische schriften: Zum erstenmale gesammelt und mit einer ..., Volume 1

Ludwig Tieck - 1848 - 418 pages
...SEamerlan (ber nify »tel langer alé jener ijî, über »е1феп Camlet fpottet) fagt 2»arlott:*) From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such...conceits as clownage keeps in pay, - We'll lead you etc. *) 3Bt£ 2Rorlo№ jiemlicfy lange bei ben Gnglânfcetn faft oer= gejfen »ar, fo fdjeint ее,...
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe: With Notes and Some Account of ..., Volume 1

Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - 1850 - 448 pages
...Compare too the Prologue to the First Part of Tamburlaine; " From jigging reins of rhyming mother-wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war," &c. It must be remembered that, before the appearance of Tamburlaine, writers for the...
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Poetical Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Minor Contemporaneous Poets ...

Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset, Nicholas Grimald, Thomas Vaux Baron Vaux - 1854 - 304 pages
...supposition which the following passage in the prologue to that tragedy to some extent confirms : ' From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such...clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine, Threatening the world with hitjh astounding...
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Wissenschaftliche Vorträge gehalten zu München im Winter 1858

Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm Bischoff - 1858 - 672 pages
...Unb jollt il)m Seifall, roenn ее (аиф gefällt. From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits, • And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding...
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes ...

Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - 1865 - 476 pages
...too the Prologue to the First Part of Tamburlaine ; ' * From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war," &c. — Mr. Collier informs us. that, before the appearance of Tamburlaine, writers for...
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