...prologue : From jipging veins of rhyming mother-wtta, And sucli conceits as clowiiage keeps in pay, We '11 lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you "shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening tho world with high astounding terms. Earlier dramatists had employed blank verse, but it had been...

...Uaukal rightly mentions that Sirjan is situated on the con lines of the uplands and lowlands. t Cf. " We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you...Threatening the world with high astounding terms." MABLOWE. § Or "Eiver DeBle." i * « S H X O Pi n AH .. 1. where the water bubbled up with considerable...

...play, but hinted at the pro- gramme." gramme which he proposed to carry out in the future :— " Prom jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits...clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tents of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding...

...whether some of them were even intended to be acted. In France no Marlowe undertook to lead the public From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, to applaud the wearer of the tragic buskin. The tra1 Poetics, c. 1 8, Professor Butcher's translation,...

...the prologue of his first play ; it is the definite, determined purpose of the conscious artist. " 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 Threatening...

...Elizabethan dramatists. Thus Marlowe in the Prologue to Tamerlaine From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately seats of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamberlaine Threatening the world with high astounding...

...serious way, or, to quote the prologue to Tamburlaine : " From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll...the Scythian Tamburlaine, Threatening the world with high-astounding terms, And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword." On the other hand, he rejected...

...the character of that play, but hinted at the programme which he proposed to carry out in the future: "From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such...clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tents of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding...

...137. jigging : moving rhythmically, rhyming. So in the Prologue to Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great: From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay. 138. 'Companion' was often used contemptuously. Cf. Coriolanus, IV, v, 14; V, ii, 65. Cf. the way 'fellow...

...only in this case the war which Victor Hugo declared against classicism Marlowe declared against the Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as Clownage keeps in pay. He astonished and alarmed old prejudices; he raised a violent storm among the critics against what...