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...mighty line ' only became possible through the poet's determination to discard what he called — The jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay — all the beggarly elements, that is to say, of the elder drama, the vulgar accessories, and jingling...

...mighty line ' only became possible through the poet's determination to discard what he called — The jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay — all the beggarly elements, that is to say, of the elder drama, the vulgar accessories, and jingling...

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...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...stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaino Threaten the worhl with high astounding terms, And scourging kingdoms with his conquering...

...miss in the absence of rime. This is plainly stated in the prologue to Tamburlazne, Part I : — ' From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such...stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamhurlaine, Threatening the world with high astounding terms.' As the poet used his metre with greater...

...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...pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where yon shall hear the Scythian Tamhurlaine Threaten the world with high astounding terms, And scourging...

...left the university. In the Prologue he professes, — " From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay. We'll...war. Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threat'ning the world with high astounding terms;" n promise he redeems in this wise, — " Where'er...

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