equally a feature of those which were produced after Tamburlaine.[1]
The Countess of Auvergne episode, with its grace and lack of human warmth, seems to me like Peele's work. In its relation to the military plot, and particularly in the military tableau with which it closes, it is very suggestive of the more elaborated Countess
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Edward I 954:
'It is but temporal that you can inflict.'
Edward II 1550:
'Tis but temporal that thou canst inflict.'Edward I 1165 f.:
'This comfort, madam, that your grace doth give
Binds me in double duty whilst I live.'
Edward II 1684 f.:
'These comforts that you give our woeful queen
Bind us in kindness all at your command.'Edward I 2800:
'Hence, feigned weeds, unfeigned is my grief.'
Edward II 1964:
'Hence, feigned weeds, unfeigned are my woes.'David & Bethsabe 12-14:
'The host of heaven . . . cast
Their crystal armor at his conquering feet.'
Tamburlaine 1932:
'There angels in their crystal armors fight.'David & Bethsabe 181:
'And makes their weapons wound the senseless winds.'
Tamburlaine 1256:
'And make our strokes to wound the senseless air'
('lure' in first edition).Battle of Alcazar 190:
'The bells of Pluto ring revenge amain.'
Edward II 1956:
'Let Pluto's bells ring out my fatal knell.'Battle of Alcazar 250:
'Tamburlaine, triumph not, for thou must die.'
Tamburlaine 4641:
'For Tamburlaine, the Scourge of God, must die.'(The line numbers for Peele's plays are those of the Malone Society editions.)
