368 Tucker Brooke, 



That woeful emperor first of my name, 



Whom the Tartarians locked in a cage 



To be a spectacle to all the world, 



Was ten times happier than I am. 



For Tamberlaine the scourge of nations. 



Was he that pull'd him from his kingdom so ; 



But mine own sons expel me from the thron f^ 



and in Lord Stirling's Doomsday (1637) : 



And Tamberlaine, the terrour of that age, 

 On lightning Baiazet did thundering light, 

 Tam'd for a foot-stoole in an iron cage.'" 



Vaguer, but sufficiently obvious, allusions to Bajazet and Tam- 

 burlaine are found in Heywood's Golden Age (1611),^^ Mas- 

 singer's Believe as You List (1631),''^ and Habington's Queen of 

 Arragon (1640).^''' 



Most often, of course, tbe allusions to AUeyn's triumphs in 

 Tamhiirlainc are jocose in tone. In the fifth act of Histriouiasti.v 

 (ca. 1598), soldiers command a captive player: 'Look up and 

 play the Tamhurlaine, you rogue you.' Drayton says in the Ballad 

 of Dozvsabell (1593) : 



In fauour this same shepheards swayne 

 Was like the bedlam Tamburlayne, 

 Which helde prowd kings in awe. 



Jonson parodies the doffing of Tamburlaine's peasant dress (1. 

 237) in The Case is Altered.^'' In the Discoveries, he speaks of 

 'the Tamerlanes and Tamar-Chams of the late age' as symbols of 



'' Temple ed., 11. 1748 fif. 



"' Book iv, stanza 85. 



"* 'Titan. Down, treacherous lord, and be our foot-pace now. 



To ascend our high tribunal.' (III. i; Shakespeare Society ed., p. 48.) 

 "'''Then by the senators, whom I'll use as horses, 



I will be drawn in a chariot . . . 



Our enemy, led like a dog in a chain. 



As I descend or reascend in state, 



Shall serve for my footstool.' (III. iii; Mermaid ed., p. 424 f.) 

 '" 'An emperor did serve 



As footstool to the conciueror, and are we 



Better assur'd of destiny?' (V. i; Hazlitt-Dodslcy xiii, p. 396.) 

 "'Lie there the weeds that I disdain to wear.' (I. i.) 



