370 Tucker Brooke, 



most terri1)le line of all the play (1. 4641) is mimicked in the first 

 act of The Battle of Alcazar (1594) : 



Tamburlaine, triumph not, for thou must die.'" 



In the Induction to the first part of Marston's Antonio and Mel- 

 lida (1602) Tamburlaine is used as a mere byword for magnilo- 

 quence.4- The passage which was most remembered by the jesters 

 was that in which Tamburlaine drives the 'pampered jades of Asia.' 

 Pistol's misquotation {2 Henry IV, II. iv. 176 fif.) is the most 



famous : 



Shall pack-horses, 

 And hollow pamper'd jades of Asia, 

 Which cannot go but thirty miles a day, 

 Compare with Caesars, and with Cannibals, 

 And Trojan Greeks? 



Lodge in The Wounds of Civil War (1594) causes Sylla similarly 

 to enter in triumph, drawn 1)y his captives. Tamburlaine was not 

 the first thus to exult over the fallen ; but Nashe probably has 

 Marlowe's scene in mind when in his epistle dedicatory to Strange 

 News (1592) he says of Harvey: 'now do I meane to present 

 him and Shakerley to the Queens f oole-taker for coatch-horses : 

 for two that draw more equallie in one Oratoriall yoke of vaine- 

 glorie there is not vnder heauen.''*^ Later in the same pamphlet 

 there is a certain reference : 'Heere enters Argumentum a testi- 

 monio humano, like Tamberlaine drawne in a Chariot by foure 

 Kings.' Quicksilver, the riotous apprentice in Eastzvard Hoe 

 (1605), cries. 'Eastward Hoe: Holla ye pampered lades of Asia.' 

 The Fleire, by Edward Sharpham (1607; ed. Nibbe, p. 22), 

 introduces the lines : 



Holla, holla ye pampred lades of Asia, 

 And can you draw but twentie miles a day? 



" 'Conuey Tamberlaine into our Affrike here, 

 To chastice and to menace lawfull kings, 



Tamberlaine triumph not, for Thou must die.' (Malone Society ed., 

 11. 248-250.) 



■^ After a pompous speech by Matzagente, Fclichc says : 'Rampum 

 scrampum, mount tuftie Tamlmrtainc ! What rattling thunderclappe breakes 

 from his lips ?' 



*'' Harvey's 'Gorgon sonnet,' appended to His Nczv Letter of Notable Con- 

 tents (1593), alludes to Shakerley as the Tamburlaine of Paul's. I do not 

 think there is any personal allusion to Marlowe in this passage, such as 

 Bullcn and Grosart assumed. 



