fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter, which I thought might seem more tedious unto the wise than any way else to be regarded, though haply they have been of some vain-conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what time they were shewed upon the stage in their graced deformities: nevertheless now to be mixtured in print with such matter of worth, it would prove a great disgrace to so honourable and stately a history. Great folly were it in me to commend unto your wisdoms either the eloquence of the author that writ them or the worthiness of the matter itself. I therefore leave unto your learned censures both the one and the other, and myself the poor printer of them unto your most courteous and favourable protection; which if you vouchsafe to accept, you shall evermore bind me to employ what travail and service I can to the advancing and pleasuring of your excellent degree. Yours, most humble at commandment, R[ICHARD] J[ONES], printer. TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT. Dart the First. THE PROLOGUE. FROM jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine : And then applaud his fortune as you please. TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT. Part the First. ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. Enter MYCETES, COSROE, MEANDER, THERIDAMAS, ORTYGIUS, CENEUS, MenaphoN, with others. Myc. Brother Cosroe, I find myself aggrieved, For it requires a great and thundering speech: Cos. Unhappy Persia, that in former age ΙΟ |