...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...

...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 conceits as clownage keeps in pay, ' We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, ' Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine ' Threatening...

...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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...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...

...end of 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...

...end of 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...

...plays 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...

...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...

...same 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...