...art and nature have not bettered much, Vet ours for want hath not so loved the stage As he dare serve the ill customs of the age : Or purchase your delight...must justly hate : To make a child, now swaddled, to proceede Man, and then shoote up in one beard, and weede, Past threescore years: or with three rustic...

...Prologue to the later version (1605-6?) of Every Man in His Humour, where he calls it an 'ill custom' To make a child now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard and weed, Past three score years. In the early Jacobean period when drama on the whole was becoming more concentrated...

...Jubilee, p. 87. 102. Colman, Man and Wife, prelude. 103. Colman, Man and wife, 2: 248-51. 104. Ibid. 105. "To make a child now swaddled, to proceed/ Man, and...swords,/ And help of some few foot and half-foot words,/ Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars" (11. 7-11). 106. For Colman's characteristic tendency to...

...contemporary drama and contrasted his own aim. He will not "serve the ill customs of the age" and refuses To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and...years: or, with three rusty swords And help of some few foot-and-half-foot words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tiring house bring...

...Pericles (the "mouldy tale" singled out specifically in the Ode appended to The New Inn [1632]) that make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then...up, in one beard, and weed, Past threescore years. (H&s 3:303)" The Tempest, too, comes under attack for its unnaturalness, especially in its depiction...

...The Four Premises of London. Yet ours, for want, hath not so loved the stage, As he dare serve th'ill customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate, As. for it, he himself must lustly hate. To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up. in one beard, and weed...

...representative spectators. In Every Man in His Humour he ridiculed the play that broke the unity of time: To make a child now swaddled to proceed Man, and then...shoot up in one beard and weed Past threescore years. (7-9) He was equally hard on the play that used words and cheap effects as a substitute for the unity...

...the stage, As he dare serve the ill customs of the age : Or purchase your delight at such a rate, s As, for it, he himself must justly hate. To make a...or, with three rusty swords, And help of some few foot-and-half-foot words, 10 Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars : And in the tiring-house bring...

...loved the stage As he dare serve th'ill customs of the age,0 Or purchase your delight at such a rate, 5 As, for it, he himself must justly hate. To make a...then shoot up, in one beard and weed, Past threescore years;0 or, with three rusty swords, And help of some few foot-and-half-foot words,0 10 Fight over...

...published in the 1616 Works. There Jonson mocked 'th'ill customs' of the contemporary stage, such as To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard, and weed Past threesome years (Vickers 1999, pp. 516-7( Jonson also mocked the Chorus who 'wafts you over the seas',...