372 Tucker Brooke, 



Bonduca, and again, in altered form, in Act V, scene ii, of Wit 



zvithout Money. 



Lance, (drunk). Now could I fight, and fight with thee— 

 Valentine. With me, thou man of Memphis?" 



Two very interesting allusions to Tambnrlainc occur at the 

 period of the outbreak of the civil wars. That in Sir John Suck- 

 ling's play, The Goblins (ed. 1648, p. 46; ed. Hazlitt, vol. ii. p. 50) 

 is hard to explain: 



Enter Poet and Thceves. 

 De(znl). O, they have fetcht him off. 

 Po(ct). Carer per so lo carer, 



Or he that made the fairie Queene. 

 / Th. No, none of these : 



They are by themselves in some other place ; 



But here's he that writ Taniherlane. 

 Po. I beseech you bring me to him. 



There's something in his Scene 



Betwixt the Empresses a little high & clowdie, 



I would resolve my selfe. 

 7 Th. You shall Sir. 



Let me see — the Author of the hold Bcauchams, 



And Englands Joy. 

 Po. The last was a well Avrit piece, I assure you, 



A Brittane I take it; and Shakespcares very way; 



I desire to see the man. 



A passage in Act III. sc. vi of The Guardian by Cowley, 'Acted 

 before Prince Charles His Highness at Trinity-Colledg in Cam- 

 bridge, upon the twelth of March, 1641,' contains an important 

 piece of information: 



Bla(dc). First, leave your raging, Sir: for though you should roar like 



Tanierlin at the Bull, 'twould do no good with me. 

 Tru(man). I Tauicrlin? I scorn him, as much as you do, for your cars. 



I have an action of slander against you, Captain ; you shall not miscal 



me at your pleasure . . . 



^' Among the lines of Tanibiirhii>ic echoed by contemporary writers are 

 369 fif., 635, 880, 1256, 1921 f., 1923, 1932, 2570, and 2598. Casual reference 

 to 'martial' or 'mighty' Tamburlaine occurs in George a Greene (I. i. 43), 

 Alphonsus of Arragon (IV. iii). The Shoemaker's Holiday (V. iv), the 

 quarto version of Every Man In his Ilunwur (III. ii), Randolph's Hey for 

 Honesty (ed. Hazlitt, pp. 436, 438), Middleton's Blurt Master Constable 

 (I. i).' 



