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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... "
Caxton (1422) to Walton (1593) - Page 163
by Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907
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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 conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine : Threatening...
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The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare ..., Volume 3

John Payne Collier - 1831 - 526 pages
...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 conceits as clownage keeps in pay, ' We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, ' ' Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine ' Threatening...
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William Shakspere: A Biography, Book 2

Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...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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Kritische Schriften, Volume 1

Ludwig Tieck - 1848 - 428 pages
...(ber mфt öiel länger alé jener ifí, über пзе1феп Camlet fpottet) fagt ÜÄarlo»:*) From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you etc. *) aBie SDtarloro jiemticf) lange bei ben (ïnglanbern fa(l ocr= gejfen roar, fo...
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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 conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine, Threatening...
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The Fortnightly, Volume 13

1870 - 770 pages
...act five, that comedy has store of mirth more vital, deeper, happier, more human than springs from " Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay " — these were discoveries in art made by Shakspeare ; and is it too much to suppose that but for...
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The Fortnightly, Volume 7; Volume 13

1870 - 764 pages
...act five, that comedy has store of mirth more vital, deeper, happier, more human than springs from " Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay " — these were discoveries in art made by Shakspeare ; and is it too much to suppose that but for...
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A First Sketch of English Literature

Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pages
...for the public were in prose or rhyme, till the Prologue of Tamburlaine said to the people : " 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 Threaten the...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 30

George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 822 pages
...The first part is introduced to the reader by a prologue in which Marlowe displays his contempt for the "jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, and such conceits as clownage keeps in pay," and he goes on to promise a very different class of entertainment from that which these same poor wits...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volumes 61-62

Henry Allon - 1875 - 646 pages
...year, his ' Tamburlaine the Great' upon the stage, saying, in his prologue to that play — ' From jigging veins of rhyming mother- wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you,' &c. iBut the unmerited abuse of envious rivals excites, as a reaction, the pleasing...
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