...and the heavenly Bull by the dewlap." He satirizes their " drumming decasyllibon," and says they " think to outbrave better pens with the swelling bombast of bragging blank verse." The last terms, it will be observed, are the same that Greene made use of some five years later, in...

...exception of the last,25 are unknown 24 Nashe evidently aims at Marlowe when he talks of the alchimists of eloquence, "who, mounted on the stage of arrogance,...with the swelling bombast of bragging blank verse." 25 There were two literary Stapletons at that period : Richard, whom Chapman praises in his preface...

...but once get Boreas by the beard, and the heavenly Bull by the dewlap. But herein I cannot so fully bequeath them to folly, as their idiot art-masters...better pens with the swelling bombast of bragging blank-averse. Indeed, it may be, the engrafted overflow of some kill-cow conceit, that overcloyeth...

...but once get Boreas by the beard, and the heavenly Bull by the dewlap. But herein I cannot so fully bequeath them to folly, as their idiot art-masters...eloquence, who, mounted on the stage of arrogance, Iliiii!: to outbrave heller pens teilli the swelling bombast of bragging blank-averse. Indeed, it may...

...once get Boreas by the beard, and the heavenly Bull by the dewlap. 2) But herein J cannot so fully bequeath them to folly, as their idiot artmasters...eloquence, who, mounted on the stage of arrogance, think to outhrave better pens with the swelling bombast of bragging blankverse. Indeed, it may be the engrafted...

...inveighed against ' idiot art-masters, that intrude themselves as the alchemists of eloquence, and think to outbrave better pens with the swelling bombast of bragging blank verse . . . the spacious volubility of a drumming decasyllabon.' This was in 1589. Greene was defeated ;...

...holds up to ridicule the " idiote art-masters that intrude themselves to our eares as the alcumists of eloquence; who (mounted on the stage of arrogance) think to outbrave better pens with the swelling bumbast of a bragging blank verse. Indeed it may be the ingrafted overflow of some kilcow conceipt...

...holds up to ridicule the " idiote art-masters that intrude themselves to our eares as the alcumists of eloquence; who (mounted on the stage of arrogance) think to outbrave better pens with the swelling bumbast of a bragging blank verse. Indeed it may be the ingrafted overflow of some kilcow conceipt...

...but once get Boreas by the beard, and the heavenly Bull by the dewlap. But herein I cannot so fully bequeath them to folly, as their idiot art-masters...stage of arrogance, think to outbrave better pens tvilh the swelling bombast of bragging blank-verse. Indeed, it may be, the engrafted overflow of some...

...interest now from Nash's preface, which contains a violent tirade against the "idiot art-masters who intrude themselves to our ears as the alchymists of...stage of arrogance) think to outbrave better pens by the swelling tomtast of braggart blank verse;" as also against those "who commit the digestion of...