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The CoxcomV'^ and Tlie Sun's Darling^^^ repeat the phrase; and 

 Taylor, the Water Poet, uses it to point his scorn of those who 

 ride in coaches : 



Fulsome madams and new scurvy squires 

 Should jolt the streets in pomp, at their desires; 

 Like great triumphant Taiiihurlaine each day, 

 Drawn with the pamper'd jades of Belgia.*'' 



Marlowe's thrice-repeated line, 'And ride in triumph through 

 Persepolis,' was of course well remembered. Ford's Loire's Sacri- 

 fice (1633) puts it with ludicrous intention into the mouth of 'an 

 old antic,' Mauruccio (Act II, sc. i) : 



Thus do we march to honour's haven of bliss. 

 To ride in triumph through Persepolis. 



The Soldan of Egypt's address at the opening of the fourth act 

 of Part I. 'Awake, ye men of Memphis.' is repeated jocosely in 

 the last line but one of the second act of Beaumont and Fletcher's 



"Act II, sc. i: 'weehee my pampered jade of Asia.' So in Women 

 Pleased (IV. i.) : 'Away, thou pamper'd jade of vanity.' Both these plays 

 belong to the Beaumont-Fletcher canon. 



** By Ford and Dekker (Act III. sc. ii.) : 'I sweat like a pamper'd jade 

 of Asia, and drop like a Cob-nut out of Africa.' A similar allusion is found 

 in The Variety, a comedy by the first Duke of Newcastle (1649, Act V, sc. 

 i, p. 72) : 'the horses will runne as the devill were in the poope, for he 

 drives like a Tamberlaine. Siiiip(letoii). Holla ye pamperd Jades.' So 

 Day and Chettle's Blind Beggar of Bednall-Grecn (ed. Bang, 1. 1660) : 'I'll 

 murther your Tamberlayn and his Coatch-horses.' This last play was 

 written in 1600, but first printed in 1659. 



*' Taylor's Works, ed. 1630, signature LI 3 {A Thief c). So in The 

 World runnes on Wheeles (ibid., sig. Bbb 2) : 'In a word, the Coach made 

 mee thinke my selfe better then my betters that went on foot, and that I 

 was but little inferiour to Tamberlaine, being iolted thus in state by those 

 pampred lades of Belgia.' R. Brathwaite jokes in the same strain in A 

 Strappado for the Diiiell (1615, ed. 1878, p. 159) : Upon a Poets Palfrey, 

 lying in Lauander, for the discharge of his Proucnder: 



'If I had liu'd when Fame-spred Tamberlaine 

 Displaied his purple signalls in the East, 

 Halloiv ye pamphred lades, had been in vaine. 

 For mine's not pamphred, nor was ere at feast 

 But once, which once's nere like to be againe, 

 How methinks would hee haue scour'd the wheeles, 

 Hauing braue Tamberlaine whipping ats heeles.' 



