From: CBS%UK.AC.ULSTER.UPVAX::CBHW23 11-DEC-1989 18:25:40.04 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: Via: UK.AC.ULSTER.UPVAX; Mon, 11 Dec 89 18:21 GMT Date: 11-DEC-1989 18:16:30 GMT From: CBHW23@UK.AC.ULSTER.UPVAX To: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX 0000010FROM JIGGING VEINS OF RHYMING MOTHER WITS, 0000020AND SUCH CONCEITS AS CLOWNAGE KEEPS IN PAY, 0000030WE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE STATELY TENT OF WAR, 0000040WHERE YOU SHALL HEAR THE SCYTHIAN TAMBURLAINE 0000050THREATENING THE WORLD WITH HIGH ASTOUNDING TERMS 0000060AND SCOURGING KINGDOMS WITH HIS CONQUERING SWORD. 0000070VIEW BUT HIS PICTURE IN THIS TRAGIC GLASS, 0000080AND THEN APPLAUD HIS FORTUNES AS YOU PLEASE. 0000090BROTHER COSROE, I FIND MYSELF AGGRIEVED, 0000100YET INSUFFICIENT TO EXPRESS THE SAME, 0000110FOR IT REQUIRES A GREAT AND THUNDERING SPEECH. 0000120GOOD BROTHER, TELL THE CAUSE UNTO MY LORDS; 0000130I KNOW YOU HAVE A BETTER WIT THAN I. 0000140UNHAPPY PERSIA, THAT IN FORMER AGE 0000150HAST BEEN THE SEAT OF MIGHTY CONQUERORS, 0000160THAT IN THEIR PROWESS AND THEIR POLICIES 0000170HAVE TRIUMPHED OVER AFRIC AND THE BOUNDS 0000180OF EUROPE, WHERE THE SUN DARES SCARCE APPEAR 0000190FOR FREEZING METEORS AND CONGEALED COLD, 0000200NOW TO BE RULED AND GOVERNED BY A MAN 0000210AT WHOSE BIRTHDAY CYNTHIA WITH SATURN JOINED, 0000220AND JOVE, THE SUN, AND MERCURY DENIED 0000230TO SHED THEIR INFLUENCE IN HIS FICKLE BRAIN! 0000240NOW TURKS AND TARTARS SHAKE THEIR SWORDS AT THEE, 0000250MEANING TO MANGLE ALL THY PROVINCES. 0000260BROTHER, I SEE YOUR MEANING WELL ENOUGH, 0000270AND THROUGH YOUR PLANETS I PERCEIVE YOU THINK 0000280I AM NOT WISE ENOUGH TO BE A KING. 0000290BUT I REFER ME TO MY NOBLEMEN 0000300THAT KNOW MY WIT, AND CAN BE WITNESSES. 0000301I MIGHT COMMAND YOU TO BE SLAIN FOR THIS. 0000310MEANDER, MIGHT I NOT? 0000320NOT FOR SO SMALL A FAULT, MY SOVEREIGN LORD. 0000330I MEAN IT NOT, BUT YET I KNOW I MIGHT. 0000340YET LIVE; YEA LIVE; MYCETES WILLS IT SO. 0000350MEANDER, THOU, MY FAITHFUL COUNSELLOR, 0000360DECLARE THE CAUSE OF MY CONCEIVED GRIEF, 0000370WHICH IS, GOD KNOWS, ABOUT THAT TAMBURLAINE, 0000380THAT, LIKE A FOX IN MIDST OF HARVEST TIME, 0000390DOTH PREY UPON MY FLOCKS OF PASSENGERS, 0000400AND, AS I HEAR, DOTH MEAN TO PULL MY PLUMES. 0000410THEREFORE IT IS GOOD AND MEET FOR TO BE WISE. 0000420OFT HAVE I HEARD YOUR MAJESTY COMPLAIN 0000430OF TAMBURLAINE, THAT STURDY SCYTHIAN THIEF 0000440THAT ROBS YOUR MERCHANTS OF PERSEPOLIS, 0000450TRADING BY LAND UNTO THE WESTERN ISLES, 0000460AND IN YOUR CONFINES WITH HIS LAWLESS TRAIN 0000470DAILY COMMITS INCIVIL OUTRAGES, 0000480HOPING (MISLED BY DREAMING PROPHECIES) 0000490TO REIGN IN ASIA, AND WITH BARBAROUS ARMS 0000500TO MAKE HIMSELF THE MONARCH OF THE EAST. 0000510BUT ERE HE MARCH IN ASIA OR DISPLAY 0000520HIS VAGRANT ENSIGN IN THE PERSIAN FIELDS, 0000530YOUR GRACE HATH TAKEN ORDER BY THERIDAMAS, 0000540CHARGED WITH A THOUSAND HORSE, TO APPREHEND 0000550AND BRING HIM CAPTIVE TO YOUR HIGHNESS' THRONE. 0000560FULL TRUE THOU SPEAKEST, AND LIKE THYSELF, 0000570MY LORD, 0000580WHOM I MAY TERM A DAMON FOR THY LOVE. 0000590THEREFORE IT IS BEST, IF SO IT LIKE YOU ALL, 0000600TO SEND MY THOUSAND HORSE INCONTINENT 0000610TO APPREHEND THAT PALTRY SCYTHIAN. 0000620HOW LIKE YOU THIS, MY HONOURABLE LORDS? 0000630IS IT NOT A KINGLY RESOLUTION? 0000640IT CANNOT CHOOSE, BECAUSE IT COMES FROM YOU. 0000650THEN HEAR THY CHARGE, VALIANT THERIDAMAS, 0000660THE CHIEFEST CAPTAIN OF MYCETES' HOST, 0000670THE HOPE OF PERSIA, AND THE VERY LEGS 0000680WHEREON OUR STATE DOTH LEAN, AS ON A STAFF 0000690THAT HOLDS US UP AND FOILS OUR NEIGHBOUR FOES. 0000700THOU SHALT BE LEADER OF THIS THOUSAND HORSE, 0000710WHOSE FOAMING GALL, WITH RAGE AND HIGH DISDAIN, 0000720HAVE SWORN THE DEATH OF WICKED TAMBURLAINE. 0000730GO FROWNING FORTH, BUT COME THOU SMILING HOME, 0000740AS DID SIR PARIS WITH THE GRECIAN DAME. 0000741RETURN WITH SPEED, TIME PASSETH SWIFT AWAY, 0000750OUR LIFE IS FRAIL, AND WE MAY DIE TODAY. 0000760BEFORE THE MOON RENEW HER BORROWED LIGHT, 0000770DOUBT NOT, MY LORD AND GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, 0000780BUT TAMBURLAINE AND THAT TARTARIAN ROUT 0000790SHALL EITHER PERISH BY OUR WARLIKE HANDS 0000800OR PLEAD FOR MERCY AT YOUR HIGHNESS' FEET. 0000810GO, STOUT THERIDAMAS; THY WORDS ARE SWORDS, 0000820AND WITH THY LOOKS THOU CONQUEREST ALL THY FOES. 0000830I LONG TO SEE THEE BACK RETURN FROM THENCE, 0000840THAT I MAY VIEW THESE MILK-WHITE STEEDS OF MINE 0000850ALL LADEN WITH THE HEADS OF KILLED MEN, 0000860AND FROM THEIR KNEES EVEN TO THEIR HOOFS BELOW 0000870BESMEARED WITH BLOOD; THAT MAKES A DAINTY SHOW. 0000880THEN NOW, MY LORD, I HUMBLY TAKE MY LEAVE. 0000890THERIDAMAS, FAREWELL TEN THOUSAND TIMES. 0000900AH, MENAPHON, WHY STAYEST THOU THUS BEHIND 0000910WHEN OTHER MEN PRESS FORWARD FOR RENOWN? 0000920GO, MENAPHON, GO INTO SCYTHIA, 0000930AND FOOT BY FOOT FOLLOW THERIDAMAS. 0000940NAY, PRAY YOU LET HIM STAY. A GREATER (TASK) 0000950FITS MENAPHON THAN WARRING WITH A THIEF. 0000960CREATE HIM PROREX OF AFRICA, 0000970THAT HE MAY WIN THE BABYLONIANS' HEARTS, 0000980WHICH WILL REVOLT FROM PERSIAN GOVERNMENT 0000990UNLESS THEY HAVE A WISER KING THAN YOU. 0001000UNLESS THEY HAVE A WISER KING THAN YOU? 0001010THESE ARE HIS WORDS; MEANDER, SET THEM DOWN. 0001020AND ADD THIS TO THEM: THAT ALL ASIA 0001030LAMENT TO SEE THE FOLLY OF THEIR KING. 0001040WELL, HERE I SWEAR BY THIS MY ROYAL SEAT - 0001050YOU MAY DO WELL TO KISS IT THEN. 0001060EMBOSSED WITH SILK AS BEST BESEEMS MY STATE, 0001070TO BE REVENGED FOR THESE CONTEMPTUOUS WORDS. 0001080O, WHERE IS DUTY AND ALLEGIANCE NOW? 0001090FLED TO THE CASPIAN OR THE OCEAN MAIN? 0001100WHAT, SHALL I CALL THEE BROTHER? NO, A FOE, 0001110MONSTER OF NATURE, SHAME UNTO THY STOCK, 0001120THAT DAREST PRESUME THY SOVEREIGN FOR TO MOCK. 0001130MEANDER COME. I AM ABUSED, MEANDER. 0001140HOW NOW, MY LORD? WHAT, MATED AND AMAZED 0001141TO HEAR THE KING THUS THREATEN LIKE HIMSELF? 0001150AH, MENAPHON, I PASS NOT FOR HIS THREATS. 0001160THE PLOT IS LAID BY PERSIAN NOBLEMEN 0001170AND CAPTAINS OF THE MEDEAN GARRISONS 0001180TO CROWN ME EMPEROR OF ASIA. 0001190BUT THIS IT IS THAT DOTH EXCRUCIATE 0001200THE VERY SUBSTANCE OF MY VEXED SOUL: 0001210TO SEE OUR NEIGHBOURS THAT WERE WONT TO QUAKE 0001220AND TREMBLE AT THE PERSIAN MONARCH'S NAME 0001230NOW SITS AND LAUGHS OUR REGIMENT TO SCORN; 0001240AND THAT WHICH MIGHT RESOLVE ME INTO TEARS, 0001250MEN FROM THE FARTHEST EQUINOCTIAL LINE 0001260HAVE SWARMED IN TROOPS INTO THE EASTERN INDIA, 0001270LADING THEIR SHIPS WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES, 0001280AND MADE THEIR SPOILS FROM ALL OUR PROVINCES. 0001290THIS SHOULD ENTREAT YOUR HIGHNESS TO REJOICE, 0001300SINCE FORTUNE GIVES YOU OPPORTUNITY 0001310TO GAIN THE TITLE OF A CONQUEROR 0001320BY CURING OF THIS MAIMED EMPERY. 0001330AFRIC AND EUROPE BORDERING ON YOUR LAND 0001340AND CONTINENT TO YOUR DOMINIONS, 0001350HOW EASILY MAY YOU WITH A MIGHTY HOST 0001360PASS INTO GRAECIA, AS DID CYRUS ONCE, 0001370AND CAUSE THEM TO WITHDRAW THEIR FORCES HOME, 0001380LEST YOU SUBDUE THE PRIDE OF CHRISTENDOM. 0001390BUT, MENAPHON, WHAT MEANS THIS TRUMPET'S SOUND? 0001400BEHOLD, MY LORD, ORTYGIUS AND THE REST 0001410BRINGING THE CROWN TO MAKE YOU EMPEROR! 0001420MAGNIFICENT AND MIGHTY PRINCE COSROE, 0001430WE, IN THE NAME OF OTHER PERSIAN STATES 0001440AND COMMONS OF THIS MIGHTY MONARCHY, 0001450PRESENT THEE WITH THE IMPERIAL DIADEM. 0001460THE WARLIKE SOLDIERS AND THE GENTLEMEN, 0001470THAT HERETOFORE HAVE FILLED PERSEPOLIS 0001480WITH AFRIC CAPTAINS TAKEN IN THE FIELD, 0001490WHOSE RANSOM MADE THEM MARCH IN COATS OF GOLD, 0001500WITH COSTLY JEWELS HANGING AT THEIR EARS 0001510AND SHINING STONES UPON THEIR LOFTY CRESTS, 0001520NOW LIVING IDLE IN THE WALLED TOWNS, 0001530WANTING BOTH PAY AND MARTIAL DISCIPLINE, 0001540BEGIN IN TROOPS TO THREATEN CIVIL WAR 0001550AND OPENLY EXCLAIM AGAINST THE KING. 0001560THEREFORE, TO STAY ALL SUDDEN MUTINIES, 0001570WE WILL INVEST YOUR HIGHNESS EMPEROR, 0001571WHEREAT THE SOLDIERS WILL CONCEIVE MORE JOY 0001580THAN DID THE MACEDONIANS AT THE SPOIL 0001590OF GREAT DARIUS AND HIS WEALTHY HOST. 0001600WELL, SINCE I SEE THE STATE OF PERSIA DROOP 0001610AND LANGUISH IN MY BROTHER'S GOVERNMENT, 0001620I WILLINGLY RECEIVE THE IMPERIAL CROWN 0001630AND VOW TO WEAR IT FOR MY COUNTRY'S GOOD, 0001640IN SPITE OF THEM SHALL MALICE MY ESTATE. 0001650AND IN ASSURANCE OF DESIRED SUCCESS, 0001660WE HERE DO CROWN THEE MONARCH OF THE EAST, 0001670EMPEROR OF ASIA AND PERSIA, 0001680GREAT LORD OF MEDEA AND ARMENIA, 0001690DUKE OF AFRICA AND ALBANIA, 0001700MESOPOTAMIA AND OF PARTHIA, 0001710EAST INDIA AND THE LATE-DISCOVERED ISLES, 0001720CHIEF LORD OF ALL THE WIDE, VAST EUXINE SEA, 0001730AND OF THE EVER-RAGING CASPIAN LAKE. 0001740LONG LIVE COSROE, MIGHTY EMPEROR! 0001750AND JOVE MAY NEVER LET ME LONGER LIVE 0001760THAN I MAY SEEK TO GRATIFY YOUR LOVE, 0001770AND CAUSE THE SOLDIERS THAT THUS HONOUR ME 0001780TO TRIUMPH OVER MANY PROVINCES; 0001790BY WHOSE DESIRES OF DISCIPLINE IN ARMS 0001800I DOUBT NOT SHORTLY BUT TO REIGN SOLE KING, 0001810AND WITH THE ARMY OF THERIDAMAS, 0001820WHITHER WE PRESENTLY WILL FLY, (MY LORDS,) 0001830TO REST SECURE AGAINST MY BROTHER'S FORCE. 0001840WE KNEW, MY LORD, BEFORE WE BROUGHT THE CROWN, 0001850INTENDING YOUR INVESTION SO NEAR 0001860THE RESIDENCE OF YOUR DESPISED BROTHER, 0001870THE LORDS WOULD NOT BE TOO EXASPERATE 0001880TO INJURE OR SUPPRESS YOUR WORTHY TITLE. 0001890OR IF THEY WOULD, THERE ARE IN READINESS 0001900TEN THOUSAND HORSE TO CARRY YOU FROM HENCE 0001910IN SPITE OF ALL SUSPECTED ENEMIES. 0001920I KNOW IT WELL, MY LORD, AND THANK YOU ALL. 0001930SOUND UP THE TRUMPETS, THEN. GOD SAVE THE KING! 0001940COME LADY, LET NOT THIS APPALL YOUR THOUGHTS; 0001950THE JEWELS AND THE TREASURE WE HAVE TAKEN 0001960SHALL BE RESERVED, AND YOU IN BETTER STATE 0001970THAN IF YOU WERE ARRIVED IN SYRIA, 0001971EVEN IN THE CIRCLE OF YOUR FATHER'S ARMS, 0001980THE MIGHTY SOLDAN OF EGYPTIA. 0001990AH, SHEPHERD, PITY MY DISTRESSED PLIGHT 0002000(IF, AS THOU SEEMEST, THOU ART SO MEAN A MAN,) 0002010AND SEEK NOT TO ENRICH THY FOLLOWERS 0002020BY LAWLESS RAPINE FROM A SILLY MAID, 0002030WHO, TRAVELLING WITH THESE MEDEAN LORDS 0002040TO MEMPHIS FROM MY UNCLE'S COUNTRY OF MEDEA, 0002050WHERE ALL MY YOUTH I HAVE BEEN GOVERNED, 0002060HAVE PASSED THE ARMY OF THE MIGHTY TURK, 0002070BEARING HIS PRIVY SIGNET AND HIS HAND 0002080TO SAFE CONDUCT US THOROUGH AFRICA. 0002090AND SINCE WE HAVE ARRIVED IN SCYTHIA, 0002100BESIDES RICH PRESENTS FROM THE PUISSANT CHAM, 0002110WE HAVE HIS HIGHNESS' LETTERS TO COMMAND 0002120AID AND ASSISTANCE IF WE STAND IN NEED. 0002130BUT NOW YOU SEE THESE LETTERS AND COMMANDS 0002140ARE COUNTERMANDED BY A GREATER MAN, 0002150AND THROUGH MY PROVINCES YOU MUST EXPECT 0002160LETTERS OF CONDUCT FROM MY MIGHTINESS, 0002170IF YOU INTEND TO KEEP YOUR TREASURE SAFE, 0002180BUT SINCE I LOVE TO LIVE AT LIBERTY, 0002190AS EASILY MAY YOU GET THE SOLDAN'S CROWN 0002200AS ANY PRIZES OUT OF MY PRECINCT. 0002210FOR THEY ARE FRIENDS THAT HELP TO WEAN MY STATE, 0002220TILL MEN AND KINGDOMS HELP TO STRENGTHEN IT, 0002230AND MUST MAINTAIN MY LIFE EXEMPT FROM SERVITUDE. 0002240BUT TELL ME, MADAM, IS YOUR GRACE BETROTHED? 0002250I AM, MY LORD, FOR SO YOU DO IMPORT. 0002260I AM A LORD, FOR SO MY DEEDS SHALL PROVE, 0002270AND YET A SHEPHERD BY MY PARENTAGE. 0002280BUT, LADY, THIS FAIR FACE AND HEAVENLY HUE 0002290MUST GRACE HIS BED THAT CONQUERS ASIA 0002300AND MEANS TO BE A TERROR TO THE WORLD, 0002310MEASURING THE LIMITS OF HIS EMPERY 0002320BY EAST AND WEST, AS PHOEBUS DOTH HIS COURSE. 0002330LIE HERE, YE WEEDS THAT I DISDAIN TO WEAR! 0002340THIS COMPLETE ARMOUR AND THIS CURTLE-AXE 0002350ARE ADJUNCTS MORE BESEEMING TAMBURLAINE. 0002360AND MADAM, WHATSOEVER YOU ESTEEM 0002370OF THIS SUCCESS, AND LOSS UNVALUED, 0002380BOTH MAY INVEST YOU EMPRESS OF THE EAST. 0002390AND THESE, THAT SEEM BUT SILLY COUNTRY SWAINS, 0002400MAY HAVE THE LEADING OF SO GREAT AN HOST 0002410AS WITH THEIR WEIGHT SHALL MAKE THE MOUNTAINS QUAKE, 0002420EVEN AS WHEN WINDY EXHALATIONS, 0002421FIGHTING FOR PASSAGE, TILT WITHIN THE EARTH. 0002430AS PRINCELY LIONS WHEN THEY ROUSE THEMSELVES, 0002440STRETCHING THEIR PAWS AND THREATENING HERDS OF BEASTS, 0002450SO IN HIS ARMOUR LOOKETH TAMBURLAINE. 0002460METHINKS I SEE KINGS KNEELING AT HIS FEET, 0002470AND HE WITH FROWNING BROWS AND FIERY LOOKS 0002480SPURNING THEIR CROWNS FROM OFF THEIR CAPTIVE HEADS. 0002490AND MAKING THEE AND ME, TECHELLES, KINGS, 0002500THAT EVEN TO DEATH WILL FOLLOW TAMBURLAINE. 0002510NOBLY RESOLVED, SWEET FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS! 0002520THESE LORDS PERHAPS DO SCORN OUR ESTIMATES, 0002530AND THINK WE PRATTLE WITH DISTEMPERED SPIRITS, 0002540BUT SINCE THEY MEASURE OUR DESERTS SO MEAN, 0002550THAT IN CONCEIT BEAR EMPIRES ON OUR SPEARS, 0002560AFFECTING THOUGHTS CO-EQUAL WITH THE CLOUDS, 0002570THEY SHALL BE KEPT OUR FORCED FOLLOWERS, 0002580TILL WITH THEIR EYES THEY VIEW US EMPERORS. 0002590THE GODS, DEFENDERS OF THE INNOCENT, 0002600WILL NEVER PROSPER YOUR INTENDED DRIFTS, 0002610THAT THUS OPPRESS POOR FRIENDLESS PASSENGERS. 0002620THEREFORE AT LEAST ADMIT US LIBERTY, 0002630EVEN AS THOU HOPEST TO BE ETERNIZED 0002640BY LIVING ASIA'S MIGHTY EMPEROR. 0002650I HOPE OUR LADY'S TREASURE AND OUR OWN 0002660MAY SERVE FOR RANSOM TO OUR LIBERTIES. 0002670RETURN OUR MULES AND EMPTY CAMELS BACK, 0002680THAT WE MAY TRAVEL INTO SYRIA, 0002690WHERE HER BETROTHED LORD, ALCIDAMUS, 0002700EXPECTS THE ARRIVAL OF HER HIGHNESS' PERSON. 0002710AND WHERESOEVER WE REPOSE OURSELVES, 0002720WE WILL REPORT BUT WELL OF TAMBURLAINE. 0002730DISDAINS ZENOCRATE TO LIVE WITH ME? 0002740OR YOU, MY LORDS, TO BE MY FOLLOWERS? 0002750THINK YOU I WEIGH THIS TREASURE MORE THAN YOU? 0002760NOT ALL THE GOLD IN INDIA'S WEALTHY ARMS 0002770SHALL BUY THE MEANEST SOLDIER IN MY TRAIN. 0002780ZENOCRATE, LOVELIER THAN THE LOVE OF JOVE, 0002790BRIGHTER THAN IS THE SILVER RHODOPE, 0002800FAIRER THAN WHITEST SNOW ON SCYTHIAN HILLS, 0002810THY PERSON IS MORE WORTH TO TAMBURLAINE 0002820THAN THE POSSESSION OF THE PERSIAN CROWN, 0002830WHICH GRACIOUS STARS HAVE PROMISED AT MY BIRTH. 0002840A HUNDRED TARTARS SHALL ATTEND ON THEE, 0002850MOUNTED ON STEEDS SWIFTER THAN PEGASUS. 0002851THY GARMENTS SHALL BE MADE OF MEDEAN SILK, 0002860ENCHASED WITH PRECIOUS JEWELS OF MINE OWN, 0002870MORE RICH AND VALUROUS THAN ZENOCRATE'S. 0002880WITH MILK-WHITE HARTS UPON AN IVORY SLED 0002890THOU SHALT BE DRAWN AMIDST THE FROZEN POOLS, 0002900AND SCALE THE ICY MOUNTAINS' LOFTY TOPS, 0002910WHICH WITH THY BEAUTY WILL BE SOON RESOLVED. 0002920MY MARTIAL PRIZES, WITH FIVE HUNDRED MEN 0002930WON ON THE FIFTY-HEADED VOLGA'S WAVES, 0002940SHALL ALL WE OFFER TO ZENOCRATE, 0002950AND THEN MYSELF TO FAIR ZENOCRATE. 0002960WHAT NOW? IN LOVE? 0002970TECHELLES, WOMEN MUST BE FLATTERED. 0002980BUT THIS IS SHE WITH WHOM I AM IN LOVE. 0002990NEWS, NEWS! 0003000HOW NOW? WHAT IS THE MATTER? 0003010A THOUSAND PERSIAN HORSEMEN ARE AT HAND, 0003020SENT FROM THE KING TO OVERCOME US ALL. 0003030HOW NOW, MY LORDS OF EGYPT AND ZENOCRATE? 0003040NOW MUST YOUR JEWELS BE RESTORED AGAIN, 0003050AND I THAT TRIUMPHED SO BE OVERCOME? 0003060HOW SAY YOU, LORDINGS? IS NOT THIS YOUR HOPE? 0003070WE HOPE YOURSELF WILL WILLINGLY RESTORE THEM. 0003080SUCH HOPE, SUCH FORTUNE, HAVE THE THOUSAND HORSE. 0003090SOFT YE, MY LORDS, AND SWEET ZENOCRATE, 0003100YOU MUST BE FORCED FROM ME ERE YOU GO. 0003110A THOUSAND HORSEMEN! WE FIVE HUNDRED FOOT! 0003120AN ODDS TOO GREAT FOR US TO STAND AGAINST. 0003130BUT ARE THEY RICH? AND IS THEIR ARMOUR GOOD? 0003140THEIR PLUMED HELMS ARE WROUGHT WITH BEATEN GOLD, 0003150THEIR SWORDS ENAMELLED, AND ABOUT THEIR NECKS 0003160HANG MASSY CHAINS OF GOLD DOWN TO THE WAIST, 0003170IN EVERY PART EXCEEDING BRAVE AND RICH. 0003180THEN SHALL WE FIGHT COURAGEOUSLY WITH THEM, 0003190OR LOOK YOU I SHOULD PLAY THE ORATOR? 0003200NO; COWARDS AND FAINT-HEARTED RUNAWAYS 0003210LOOK FOR ORATIONS WHEN THE FOE IS NEAR. 0003220OUR SWORDS SHALL PLAY THE ORATORS FOR US. 0003230COME, LET US MEET THEM AT THE MOUNTAIN FOOT, 0003240AND WITH A SUDDEN AND AN HOT ALARM 0003250DRIVE ALL THEIR HORSES HEADLONG DOWN THE HILL. 0003260COME, LET US MARCH. 0003270STAY, TECHELLES; ASK A PARLEY FIRST. 0003271OPEN THE MAILS, YET GUARD THE TREASURE SURE. 0003280LAY OUT OUR GOLDEN WEDGES TO THE VIEW, 0003290THAT THEIR REFLECTIONS MAY AMAZE THE PERSIANS, 0003300AND LOOK WE FRIENDLY ON THEM WHEN THEY COME. 0003310BUT IF THEY OFFER WORD OR VIOLENCE, 0003320WE WILL FIGHT, FIVE HUNDRED MEN-AT-ARMS TO ONE, 0003330BEFORE WE PART WITH OUR POSSESSION. 0003340AND AGAINST THE GENERAL WE WILL LIFT OUR SWORDS, 0003350AND EITHER LANCH HIS GREEDY THIRSTING THROAT, 0003360OR TAKE HIM PRISONER, AND HIS CHAIN SHALL SERVE 0003370FOR MANACLES TILL HE BE RANSOMED HOME. 0003380I HEAR THEM COME. SHALL WE ENCOUNTER THEM? 0003390KEEP ALL YOUR STANDINGS, AND NOT STIR A FOOT: 0003400MYSELF WILL BIDE THE DANGER OF THE BRUNT. 0003410WHERE IS THIS SCYTHIAN, TAMBURLAINE? 0003420WHOM SEEKEST THOU, PERSIAN? I AM TAMBURLAINE. 0003430TAMBURLAINE! A SCYTHIAN SHEPHERD SO EMBELLISHED 0003440WITH NATURE'S PRIDE AND RICHEST FURNITURE! 0003450HIS LOOKS DO MENACE HEAVEN AND DARE THE GODS. 0003460HIS FIERY EYES ARE FIXED UPON THE EARTH 0003470AS IF HE NOW DEVISED SOME STRATAGEM, 0003480OR MEANT TO PIERCE AVERNUS' DARKSOME VAULTS 0003490TO PULL THE TRIPLE-HEADED DOG FROM HELL. 0003500NOBLE AND MILD THIS PERSIAN SEEMS TO BE, 0003510IF OUTWARD HABIT JUDGE THE INWARD MAN. 0003520HIS DEEP AFFECTIONS MAKE HIM PASSIONATE. 0003530WITH WHAT A MAJESTY HE REARS HIS LOOKS! 0003540IN THEE, THOU VALIANT MAN OF PERSIA, 0003550I SEE THE FOLLY OF THY EMPEROR. 0003560ART THOU BUT CAPTAIN OF A THOUSAND HORSE, 0003570THAT BY CHARACTERS GRAVEN IN THY BROWS, 0003580AND BY THY MARTIAL FACE AND STOUT ASPECT, 0003590DESERVEST TO HAVE THE LEADING OF AN HOST? 0003600FORSAKE THY KING AND DO BUT JOIN WITH ME, 0003610AND WE WILL TRIUMPH OVER ALL THE WORLD. 0003620I HOLD THE FATES BOUND FAST IN IRON CHAINS, 0003630AND WITH MY HAND TURN FORTUNE'S WHEEL ABOUT, 0003640AND SOONER SHALL THE SUN FALL FROM HIS SPHERE 0003650THAN TAMBURLAINE BE SLAIN OR OVERCOME. 0003660DRAW FORTH THY SWORD, THOU MIGHTY MAN-AT-ARMS, 0003670INTENDING BUT TO RAZE MY CHARMED SKIN, 0003680AND JOVE HIMSELF WILL STRETCH HIS HAND FROM HEAVEN 0003681TO WARD THE BLOW AND SHIELD ME SAFE FROM HARM. 0003690SEE HOW HE RAINS DOWN HEAPS OF GOLD IN SHOWERS, 0003700AS IF HE MEANT TO GIVE MY SOLDIERS PAY; 0003710AND AS A SURE AND GROUNDED ARGUMENT 0003720THAT I SHALL BE THE MONARCH OF THE EAST, 0003730HE SENDS THIS SOLDAN'S DAUGHTER, RICH AND BRAVE, 0003740TO BE MY QUEEN AND PORTLY EMPERESS. 0003750IF THOU WILT STAY WITH ME, RENOWNED MAN, 0003760AND LEAD THY THOUSAND HORSE WITH MY CONDUCT, 0003770BESIDES THY SHARE OF THIS EGYPTIAN PRIZE, 0003780THOSE THOUSAND HORSE SHALL SWEAT WITH MARTIAL SPOIL 0003790OF CONQUERED KINGDOMS AND OF CITIES SACKED. 0003800BOTH WE WILL WALK UPON THE LOFTY CLIFFS, 0003810AND CHRISTIAN MERCHANTS, THAT WITH RUSSIAN STEMS 0003820PLOUGH UP HUGE FURROWS IN THE CASPIAN SEA, 0003830SHALL VAIL TO US AS LORDS OF ALL THE LAKE. 0003840BOTH WE WILL REIGN AS CONSULS OF THE EARTH, 0003850AND MIGHTY KINGS SHALL BE OUR SENATORS. 0003860JOVE SOMETIME MASKED IN A SHEPHERD'S WEED, 0003870AND BY THOSE STEPS THAT HE HATH SCALED THE HEAVENS, 0003880MAY WE BECOME IMMORTAL LIKE THE GODS. 0003890JOIN WITH ME NOW IN THIS MY MEAN ESTATE, 0003900(I CALL IT MEAN BECAUSE, BEING YET OBSCURE, 0003910THE NATIONS FAR REMOVED ADMIRE ME NOT,) 0003920AND WHEN MY NAME AND HONOUR SHALL BE SPREAD 0003930AS FAR AS BOREAS CLAPS HIS BRAZEN WINGS, 0003940OR FAIR BOOTES SENDS HIS CHEERFUL LIGHT, 0003950THEN SHALT THOU BE COMPETITOR WITH ME, 0003960AND SIT WITH TAMBURLAINE IN ALL HIS MAJESTY. 0003970NOT HERMES, PROLOCUTOR TO THE GODS, 0003980COULD USE PERSUASIONS MORE PATHETICAL. 0003990NOR ARE APOLLO'S ORACLES MORE TRUE 0004000THAN THOU SHALT FIND MY VAUNTS SUBSTANTIAL. 0004010WE ARE HIS FRIENDS, AND IF THE PERSIAN KING 0004020SHOULD OFFER PRESENT DUKEDOMS TO OUR STATE, 0004030WE THINK IT LOSS TO MAKE EXCHANGE FOR THAT 0004040WE ARE ASSURED OF BY OUR FRIEND'S SUCCESS. 0004050AND KINGDOMS AT THE LEAST WE ALL EXPECT, 0004060BESIDES THE HONOUR IN ASSURED CONQUESTS, 0004070WHERE KINGS SHALL CROUCH UNTO OUR CONQUERING SWORDS 0004080AND HOSTS OF SOLDIERS STAND AMAZED AT US, 0004090WHEN WITH THEIR FEARFUL TONGUES THEY SHALL CONFESS 0004100THESE ARE THE MEN THAT ALL THE WORLD ADMIRES. 0004101WHAT STRONG ENCHANTMENTS ENTICE MY YIELDING SOUL! 0004110AH, THESE RESOLVED NOBLE SCYTHIANS! 0004120BUT SHALL I PROVE A TRAITOR TO MY KING? 0004130NO, BUT THE TRUSTY FRIEND OF TAMBURLAINE. 0004140WON WITH THY WORDS, AND CONQUERED WITH THY LOOKS, 0004150I YIELD MYSELF, MY MEN, AND HORSE TO THEE, 0004160TO BE PARTAKER OF THY GOOD OR ILL, 0004170AS LONG AS LIFE MAINTAINS THERIDAMAS. 0004180THERIDAMAS, MY FRIEND, TAKE HERE MY HAND, 0004190WHICH IS AS MUCH AS IF I SWORE BY HEAVEN 0004200AND CALLED THE GODS TO WITNESS OF MY VOW. 0004210THUS SHALL MY HEART BE STILL COMBINED WITH THINE, 0004220UNTIL OUR BODIES TURN TO ELEMENTS, 0004230AND BOTH OUR SOULS ASPIRE CELESTIAL THRONES. 0004240TECHELLES AND CASANE, WELCOME HIM. 0004250WELCOME, RENOWNED PERSIAN, TO US ALL. 0004260LONG MAY THERIDAMAS REMAIN WITH US. 0004270THESE ARE MY FRIENDS IN WHOM I MORE REJOICE 0004280THAN DOTH THE KING OF PERSIA IN HIS CROWN; 0004290AND BY THE LOVE OF PYLADES AND ORESTES, 0004300WHOSE STATUES WE ADORE IN SCYTHIA, 0004310THYSELF AND THEM SHALL NEVER PART FROM ME 0004320BEFORE I CROWN YOU KINGS IN ASIA. 0004330MAKE MUCH OF THEM , GENTLE THERIDAMAS, 0004340AND THEY WILL NEVER LEAVE THEE TILL THE DEATH. 0004350NOR THEE, NOR THEM, THRICE NOBLE TAMBURLAINE, 0004360SHALL WANT MY HEART TO BE WITH GLADNESS PIERCED, 0004370TO DO YOU HONOUR AND SECURITY. 0004380A THOUSAND THANKS, WORTHY THERIDAMAS. 0004390AND NOW, FAIR MADAM, AND MY NOBLE LORDS, 0004400IF YOU WILL WILLINGLY REMAIN WITH ME, 0004410YOU SHALL HAVE HONOURS AS YOUR MERITS BE, 0004420OR ELSE YOU SHALL BE FORCED WITH SLAVERY. 0004430WE YIELD UNTO THEE, HAPPY TAMBURLAINE. 0004440FOR YOU THEN, MADAM, I AM OUT OF DOUBT. 0004450I MUST BE PLEASED PERFORCE, WRETCHED ZENOCRATE! 0004460THUS FAR ARE WE TOWARDS THERIDAMAS 0004470AND VALIANT TAMBURLAINE, THE MAN OF FAME, 0004480THE MAN THAT IN THE FOREHEAD OF HIS FORTUNE 0004490BEARS FIGURES OF RENOWN AND MIRACLE. 0004491BUT TELL ME, THAT HAST SEEN HIM, MENAPHON, 0004500WHAT STATURE WIELDS HE, AND WHAT PERSONAGE? 0004510OF STATURE TALL, AND STRAIGHTLY FASHIONED, 0004520LIKE HIS DESIRE, LIFT UPWARDS AND DIVINE, 0004530SO LARGE OF LIMBS, HIS JOINTS SO STRONGLY KNIT, 0004540SUCH BREADTH OF SHOULDERS AS MIGHT MAINLY BEAR 0004550OLD ATLAS' BURDEN. BETWIXT HIS MANLY PITCH, 0004560A PEARL MORE WORTH THAN ALL THE WORLD IS PLACED, 0004570WHEREIN BY CURIOUS SOVEREIGNTY OF ART 0004580ARE FIXED HIS PIERCING INSTRUMENTS OF SIGHT, 0004590WHOSE FIERY CIRCLES BEAR ENCOMPASSED 0004600A HEAVEN OF HEAVENLY BODIES IN THEIR SPHERES, 0004610THAT GUIDES HIS STEPS AND ACTIONS TO THE THRONE 0004620WHERE HONOUR SITS INVESTED ROYALLY. 0004630PALE OF COMPLEXION, WROUGHT IN HIM WITH PASSION, 0004640THIRSTING WITH SOVEREIGNTY, WITH LOVE OF ARMS, 0004650HIS LOFTY BROWS IN FOLDS DO FIGURE DEATH, 0004660AND IN THEIR SMOOTHNESS AMITY AND LIFE. 0004670ABOUT THEM HANGS A KNOT OF AMBER HAIR, 0004680WRAPPED IN CURLS, AS FIERCE ACHILLES' WAS, 0004690ON WHICH THE BREATH OF HEAVEN DELIGHTS TO PLAY, 0004700MAKING IT DANCE WITH WANTON MAJESTY. 0004710HIS ARMS AND FINGERS, LONG AND SINEWY, 0004720BETOKENING VALOUR AND EXCESS OF STRENGTH - 0004730IN EVERY PART PROPORTIONED LIKE THE MAN 0004740SHOULD MAKE THE WORLD SUBDUED TO TAMBURLAINE. 0004750WELL HAST THOU PORTRAYED IN THY TERMS OF LIFE 0004760THE FACE AND PERSONAGE OF A WONDROUS MAN. 0004770NATURE DOTH STRIVE WITH FORTUNE AND HIS STARS 0004780TO MAKE HIM FAMOUS IN ACCOMPLISHED WORTH, 0004790AND WELL HIS MERITS SHOW HIM TO BE MADE 0004800HIS FORTUNE'S MASTER AND THE KING OF MEN, 0004810THAT COULD PERSUADE, AT SUCH A SUDDEN PINCH, 0004820WITH REASONS OF HIS VALOUR AND HIS LIFE, 0004830A THOUSAND SWORN AND OVERMATCHING FOES. 0004840THEN, WHEN OUR POWERS IN POINTS OF SWORDS ARE JOINED, 0004850AND CLOSED IN COMPASS OF THE KILLING BULLET, 0004860THOUGH STRAIT THE PASSAGE AND THE PORT BE MADE 0004870THAT LEADS TO PALACE OF MY BROTHER'S LIFE, 0004880PROUD IS HIS FORTUNE IF WE PIERCE IT NOT. 0004890AND WHEN THE PRINCELY PERSIAN DIADEM 0004900SHALL OVERWEIGH HIS WEARY WITLESS HEAD 0004910AND FALL, LIKE MELLOWED FRUIT, WITH SHAKES OF DEATH, 0004920IN FAIR PERSIA NOBLE TAMBURLAINE 0004921SHALL BE MY REGENT AND REMAIN AS KING. 0004930IN HAPPY HOUR WE HAVE SET THE CROWN 0004940UPON YOUR KINGLY HEAD, THAT SEEKS OUR HONOUR 0004950IN JOINING WITH THE MAN ORDAINED BY HEAVEN 0004960TO FURTHER EVERY ACTION TO THE BEST. 0004970HE THAT WITH SHEPHERDS AND A LITTLE SPOIL 0004980DURST, IN DISDAIN OF WRONG AND TYRANNY, 0004990DEFEND HIS FREEDOM AGAINST A MONARCHY, 0005000WHAT WILL HE DO SUPPORTED BY A KING, 0005010LEADING A TROOP OF GENTLEMEN AND LORDS, 0005020AND STUFFED WITH TREASURE FOR HIS HIGHEST THOUGHTS? 0005030AND SUCH SHALL WAIT ON WORTHY TAMBURLAINE. 0005040OUR ARMY WILL BE FORTY THOUSAND STRONG, 0005050WHEN TAMBURLAINE AND BRAVE THERIDAMAS 0005060HAVE MET US BY THE RIVER ARARIS; 0005070AND ALL CONJOINED TO MEET THE WITLESS KING 0005080THAT NOW IS MARCHING NEAR TO PARTHIA, 0005090AND WITH UNWILLING SOLDIERS FAINTLY ARMED, 0005100TO SEEK REVENGE ON ME AND TAMBURLAINE, 0005110TO WHOM, SWEET MENAPHON, DIRECT ME STRAIGHT. 0005120I WILL, MY LORD. 0005130COME, MY MEANDER, LET US TO THIS GEAR. 0005140I TELL YOU TRUE, MY HEART IS SWOLLEN WITH WRATH 0005150ON THIS SAME THIEVISH VILLAIN, TAMBURLAINE, 0005160AND OF THAT FALSE COSROE, MY TRAITOROUS BROTHER. 0005170WOULD IT NOT GRIEVE A KING TO BE SO ABUSED 0005180AND HAVE A THOUSAND HORSEMEN TAKEN AWAY? 0005190AND, WHICH IS WORSE, TO HAVE HIS DIADEM 0005200SOUGHT FOR BY SUCH SCALD KNAVES AS LOVE HIM NOT? 0005210I THINK IT WOULD. WELL THEN, BY HEAVENS I SWEAR, 0005220AURORA SHALL NOT PEEP OUT OF HER DOORS, 0005230BUT I WILL HAVE COSROE BY THE HEAD 0005240AND KILL PROUD TAMBURLAINE WITH POINT OF SWORD. 0005250TELL YOU THE REST, MEANDER; I HAVE SAID. 0005260THEN, HAVING PASSED ARMENIAN DESERTS NOW, 0005270AND PITCHED OUR TENTS UNDER THE GEORGIAN HILLS, 0005280WHOSE TOPS ARE COVERED WITH TARTARIAN THIEVES 0005290THAT LIE IN AMBUSH, WAITING FOR A PREY, 0005300WHAT SHOULD WE DO BUT BID THEM BATTLE STRAIGHT 0005310AND RID THE WORLD OF THOSE DETESTED TROOPS, 0005320LEST, IF WE LET THEM LINGER HERE AWHILE, 0005321THEY GATHER STRENGTH BY POWER OF FRESH SUPPLIES? 0005330THIS COUNTRY SWARMS WITH VILE OUTRAGEOUS MEN 0005340THAT LIVE BY RAPINE AND BY LAWLESS SPOIL, 0005350FIT SOLDIERS FOR THE WICKED TAMBURLAINE. 0005360AND HE THAT COULD WITH GIFTS AND PROMISES 0005370INVEIGLE HIM THAT LED A THOUSAND HORSE, 0005380AND MAKE HIM FALSE HIS FAITH UNTO HIS KING, 0005390WILL QUICKLY WIN SUCH AS ARE LIKE HIMSELF. 0005400THEREFORE CHEER UP YOUR MINDS; PREPARE TO FIGHT. 0005410HE THAT CAN TAKE OR SLAUGHTER TAMBURLAINE 0005420SHALL RULE THE PROVINCE OF ALBANIA. 0005430WHO BRINGS THAT TRAITOR'S HEAD, THERIDAMAS, 0005440SHALL HAVE A GOVERNMENT IN MEDEA, 0005450BESIDE THE SPOIL OF HIM AND ALL HIS TRAIN. 0005460BUT IF COSROE (AS OUR SPIALS SAY, 0005470AND AS WE KNOW) REMAINS WITH TAMBURLAINE, 0005480HIS HIGHNESS' PLEASURE IS THAT HE SHOULD LIVE 0005490AND BE RECLAIMED WITH PRINCELY LENITY. 0005500AN HUNDRED HORSEMEN OF MY COMPANY, 0005510SCOUTING ABROAD UPON THESE CHAMPION PLAINS, 0005520HAVE VIEWED THE ARMY OF THE SCYTHIANS, 0005530WHICH MAKE REPORTS IT FAR EXCEEDS THE KING'S. 0005540SUPPOSE THEY BE IN NUMBER INFINITE, 0005550YET BEING VOID OF MARTIAL DISCIPLINE, 0005560ALL RUNNING HEADLONG AFTER GREEDY SPOILS, 0005570AND MORE REGARDING GAIN THAN VICTORY, 0005580LIKE TO THE CRUEL BROTHERS OF THE EARTH, 0005590SPRUNG OF THE TEETH OF DRAGONS VENOMOUS, 0005600THEIR CARELESS SWORDS SHALL LANCH THEIR FELLOWS' 0005610THROATS 0005620AND MAKE US TRIUMPH IN THEIR OVERTHROW. 0005630WAS THERE SUCH BRETHREN, SWEET MEANDER, SAY, 0005640THAT SPRUNG OF TEETH OF DRAGONS VENOMOUS? 0005650SO POETS SAY, MY LORD. 0005660AND IT IS A PRETTY TOY TO BE A POET. 0005670WELL, WELL, MEANDER, THOU ART DEEPLY READ, 0005680AND HAVING THEE, I HAVE A JEWEL SURE. 0005690GO ON, MY LORD, AND GIVE YOUR CHARGE, I SAY. 0005700THY WIT WILL MAKE US CONQUERORS TODAY. 0005710THEN, NOBLE SOLDIERS, TO ENTRAP THESE THIEVES 0005720THAT LIVE CONFOUNDED IN DISORDERED TROOPS, 0005730IF WEALTH OR RICHES MAY PREVAIL WITH THEM, 0005740WE HAVE OUR CAMELS LADEN ALL WITH GOLD, 0005750WHICH YOU THAT BE BUT COMMON SOLDIERS 0005760SHALL FLING IN EVERY CORNER OF THE FIELD, 0005761AND, WHILE THE BASE-BORN TARTARS TAKE IT UP, 0005770YOU, FIGHTING MORE FOR HONOUR THAN FOR GOLD, 0005780SHALL MASSACRE THOSE GREEDY-MINDED SLAVES; 0005790AND WHEN THEIR SCATTERED ARMY IS SUBDUED, 0005800AND YOU MARCH ON THEIR SLAUGHTERED CARCASSES, 0005810SHARE EQUALLY THE GOLD THAT BOUGHT THEIR LIVES, 0005820AND LIVE LIKE GENTLEMEN IN PERSIA. 0005830STRIKE UP THE DRUM AND MARCH COURAGEOUSLY. 0005840FORTUNE HERSELF DOTH SIT UPON OUR CRESTS. 0005850HE TELLS YOU TRUE, MY MASTERS; SO HE DOES. 0005860DRUMS, WHY SOUND YE NOT WHEN MEANDER SPEAKS? 0005870NOW, WORTHY TAMBURLAINE, HAVE I REPOSED 0005880IN THY APPROVED FORTUNES ALL MY HOPE. 0005890WHAT THINKEST THOU, MAN, SHALL COME OF OUR ATTEMPTS? 0005900FOR EVEN AS FROM ASSURED ORACLE, 0005910I TAKE THY DOOM FOR SATISFACTION. 0005920AND SO MISTAKE YOU NOT A WHIT, MY LORD, 0005930FOR FATES AND ORACLES OF HEAVEN HAVE SWORN 0005940TO ROYALIZE THE DEEDS OF TAMBURLAINE, 0005950AND MAKE THEM BLEST THAT SHARE IN HIS ATTEMPTS. 0005960AND DOUBT YOU NOT BUT, IF YOU FAVOUR ME 0005970AND LET MY FORTUNES AND MY VALOUR SWAY 0005980TO SOME DIRECTION IN YOUR MARTIAL DEEDS, 0005990THE WORLD WILL STRIVE WITH HOSTS OF MEN-AT-ARMS 0006000TO SWARM UNTO THE ENSIGN I SUPPORT. 0006010THE HOST OF XERXES, WHICH BY FAME IS SAID 0006020TO DRINK THE MIGHTY PARTHIAN ARARIS, 0006030WAS BUT A HANDFUL TO THAT WE WILL HAVE. 0006040OUR QUIVERING LANCES SHAKING IN THE AIR 0006050AND BULLETS LIKE JOVE'S DREADFUL THUNDERBOLTS, 0006060ENROLLED IN FLAMES AND FIERY SMOLDERING MISTS, 0006070SHALL THREAT THE GODS MORE THAN CYCLOPIAN WARS; 0006080AND WITH OUR SUN-BRIGHT ARMOUR, AS WE MARCH 0006090WE WILL CHASE THE STARS FROM HEAVEN AND DIM THEIR EYES 0006100THAT STAND AND MUSE AT OUR ADMIRED ARMS. 0006110YOU SEE, MY LORD, WHAT WORKING WORDS HE HATH, 0006120BUT WHEN YOU SEE HIS ACTIONS TOP HIS SPEECH, 0006130YOUR SPEECH WILL STAY, OR SO EXTOL HIS WORTH 0006140AS I SHALL BE COMMENDED AND EXCUSED 0006150FOR TURNING MY POOR CHARGE TO HIS DIRECTION. 0006151AND THESE HIS TWO RENOWNED FRIENDS, MY LORD, 0006160WOULD MAKE ONE THRUST AND STRIVE TO BE RETAINED 0006170IN SUCH A GREAT DEGREE OF AMITY. 0006180WITH DUTY AND WITH AMITY WE YIELD 0006190OUR UTMOST SERVICE TO THE FAIR COSROE. 0006200WHICH I ESTEEM AS PORTION OF MY CROWN. 0006210USUMCASANE AND TECHELLES BOTH, 0006220WHEN SHE THAT RULES IN RHAMNIS' GOLDEN GATES 0006230AND MAKES A PASSAGE FOR ALL PROSPEROUS ARMS 0006240SHALL MAKE ME SOLELY EMPEROR OF ASIA, 0006250THEN SHALL YOUR MEEDS AND VALOURS BE ADVANCED 0006260TO ROOMS OF HONOUR AND NOBILITY. 0006270THEN HASTE, COSROE, TO BE KING ALONE, 0006280THAT I WITH THESE MY FRIENDS AND ALL MY MEN 0006290MAY TRIUMPH IN OUR LONG-EXPECTED FATE. 0006300THE KING, YOUR BROTHER, IS NOW HARD AT HAND; 0006310MEET WITH THE FOOL, AND RID YOUR ROYAL SHOULDERS 0006320OF SUCH A BURDEN AS OUTWEIGHS THE SANDS 0006330AND ALL THE CRAGGY ROCKS OF CASPIA. 0006340MY LORD, WE HAVE DISCOVERED THE ENEMY 0006350READY TO CHARGE YOU WITH A MIGHTY ARMY. 0006360COME, TAMBURLAINE, NOW WHET THY WINGED SWORD, 0006370AND LIFT THY LOFTY ARM INTO THE CLOUDS, 0006380THAT IT MAY REACH THE KING OF PERSIA'S CROWN 0006390AND SET IT SAFE ON MY VICTORIOUS HEAD. 0006400SEE WHERE IT IS, THE KEENEST CURTLE-AXE 0006410THAT EVER MADE PASSAGE THOROUGH PERSIAN ARMS. 0006420THESE ARE THE WINGS SHALL MAKE IT FLY AS SWIFT 0006430AS DOTH THE LIGHTNING OR THE BREATH OF HEAVEN, 0006440AND KILL AS SURE AS IT SWIFTLY FLIES. 0006450THY WORDS ASSURE ME OF KIND SUCCESS. 0006460GO, VALIANT SOLDIER, GO BEFORE AND CHARGE 0006470THE FAINTING ARMY OF THAT FOOLISH KING. 0006480USUMCASANE AND TECHELLES, COME. 0006490WE ARE ENOUGH TO SCARE THE ENEMY, 0006500AND MORE THAN NEEDS TO MAKE AN EMPEROR. 0006510ACCURSED BE HE THAT FIRST INVENTED WAR! 0006520THEY KNEW NOT, AH, THEY KNEW NOT, SIMPLE MEN, 0006530HOW THOSE WERE HIT BY PELTING CANNON SHOT 0006540STAND STAGGERING LIKE A QUIVERING ASPEN LEAF 0006550FEARING THE FORCE OF BOREAS' BOISTEROUS BLASTS. 0006560IN WHAT A LAMENTABLE CASE WERE I, 0006561IF NATURE HAD NOT GIVEN ME WISDOM'S LORE, 0006570FOR KINGS ARE CLOUTS THAT EVERY MAN SHOOTS AT, 0006580OUR CROWN THE PIN THAT THOUSANDS SEEK TO CLEAVE. 0006590THEREFORE IN POLICY I THINK IT GOOD 0006600TO HIDE IT CLOSE - A GOODLY STRATAGEM, 0006610AND FAR FROM ANY MAN THAT IS A FOOL. 0006620SO SHALL NOT I BE KNOWN, OR IF I BE, 0006630THEY CANNOT TAKE AWAY MY CROWN FROM ME. 0006640HERE WILL I HIDE IT IN THIS SIMPLE HOLE. 0006650WHAT, FEARFUL COWARD! STRAGGLING FROM THE CAMP, 0006660WHEN KINGS THEMSELVES ARE PRESENT IN THE FIELD? 0006670THOU LIEST. 0006680BASE VILLAIN, DAREST THOU GIVE THE LIE? 0006690AWAY! I AM THE KING. GO! TOUCH ME NOT! 0006700THOU BREAKEST THE LAW OF ARMS, UNLESS THOU KNEEL 0006710AND CRY ME, "MERCY, NOBLE KING!" 0006720ARE YOU THE WITTY KING OF PERSIA? 0006730AY, MARRY, AM I. HAVE YOU ANY SUIT TO ME? 0006740I WOULD ENTREAT YOU TO SPEAK BUT THREE WISE WORDS. 0006750SO I CAN, WHEN I SEE MY TIME. 0006760IS THIS YOUR CROWN? 0006770AY. DIDST THOU EVER SEE A FAIRER? 0006780YOU WILL NOT SELL IT, WILL YE? 0006790SUCH ANOTHER WORD, AND I WILL HAVE THEE EXECUTED. 0006800COME, GIVE IT ME. 0006810NO; I TOOK IT PRISONER. 0006820YOU LIE; I GAVE IT YOU. 0006830THEN IT IS MINE. 0006840NO; I MEAN I LET YOU KEEP IT. 0006850WELL, I MEAN YOU SHALL HAVE IT AGAIN. 0006860HERE, TAKE IT FOR AWHILE; I LEND IT THEE 0006870TILL I MAY SEE THEE HEMMED WITH ARMED MEN. 0006880THEN SHALT THOU SEE ME PULL IT FROM THY HEAD; 0006890THOU ART NO MATCH FOR MIGHTY TAMBURLAINE. 0006900O GODS, IS THIS TAMBURLAINE THE THIEF? 0006910I MARVEL MUCH HE STOLE IT NOT AWAY. 0006920HOLD THEE, COSROE; WEAR TWO IMPERIAL CROWNS. 0006930THINK THEE INVESTED NOW AS ROYALLY, 0006940EVEN BY THE MIGHTY HAND OF TAMBURLAINE, 0006950AS IF AS MANY KINGS AS COULD ENCOMPASS THEE 0006960WITH GREATEST POMP, HAD CROWNED THEE EMPEROR. 0006961SO DO I, THRICE RENOWNED MAN-AT-ARMS; 0006970AND NONE SHALL KEEP THE CROWN BUT TAMBURLAINE. 0006980THEE DO I MAKE MY REGENT OF PERSIA 0006990AND GENERAL LIEUTENANT OF MY ARMIES. 0007000MEANDER, YOU THAT WERE OUR BROTHER'S GUIDE, 0007010AND CHIEFEST COUNSELLOR IN ALL HIS ACTS, 0007020SINCE HE IS YIELDED TO THE STROKE OF WAR, 0007030ON YOUR SUBMISSION WE WITH THANKS EXCUSE 0007040AND GIVE YOU EQUAL PLACE IN OUR AFFAIRS. 0007050MOST HAPPY EMPEROR, IN HUMBLEST TERMS 0007060I VOW MY SERVICE TO YOUR MAJESTY, 0007070WITH UTMOST VIRTUE OF MY FAITH AND DUTY. 0007080THANKS, GOOD MEANDER. THEN, COSROE, REIGN 0007090AND GOVERN PERSIA IN HER FORMER POMP. 0007100NOW SEND EMBASSAGE TO THY NEIGHBOUR KINGS, 0007110AND LET THEM KNOW THE PERSIAN KING IS CHANGED 0007120FROM ONE THAT KNEW NOT WHAT A KING SHOULD DO 0007130TO ONE THAT CAN COMMAND WHAT BELONGS THERETO. 0007140AND NOW WE WILL TO FAIR PERSEPOLIS 0007150WITH TWENTY THOUSAND EXPERT SOLDIERS. 0007160THE LORDS AND CAPTAINS OF MY BROTHER'S CAMP 0007170WITH LITTLE SLAUGHTER TAKE MEANDER'S COURSE, 0007180AND GLADLY YIELD THEM TO MY GRACIOUS RULE. 0007190ORTYGIUS AND MENAPHON, MY TRUSTY FRIENDS, 0007200NOW WILL I GRATIFY YOUR FORMER GOOD 0007210AND GRACE YOUR CALLING WITH A GREATER SWAY. 0007220AND AS WE EVER AIMED AT YOUR BEHOOF, 0007230AND SOUGHT YOUR STATE ALL HONOUR IT DESERVED, 0007240SO WILL WE WITH OUR POWERS AND OUR LIVES 0007250ENDEAVOUR TO PRESERVE AND PROSPER IT. 0007260I WILL NOT THANK THEE, SWEET ORTYGIUS; 0007270BETTER REPLIES SHALL PROVE MY PURPOSES. 0007280AND NOW, LORD TAMBURLAINE, MY BROTHER'S CAMP 0007290I LEAVE TO THEE AND TO THERIDAMAS, 0007300TO FOLLOW ME TO FAIR PERSEPOLIS. 0007310THEN WILL WE MARCH TO ALL THOSE INDIAN MINES 0007320MY WITLESS BROTHER TO THE CHRISTIANS LOST, 0007330AND RANSOM THEM WITH FAME AND USURY. 0007340AND TILL THOU OVERTAKE ME, TAMBURLAINE, 0007350(STAYING TO ORDER ALL THE SCATTERED TROOPS,) 0007360FAREWELL, LORD REGENT AND HIS HAPPY FRIENDS. 0007370I LONG TO SIT UPON MY BROTHER'S THRONE. 0007380YOUR MAJESTY SHALL SHORTLY HAVE YOUR WISH, 0007390AND RIDE IN TRIUMPH THROUGH PERSEPOLIS. 0007400AND RIDE IN TRIUMPH THROUGH PERSEPOLIS! 0007410IS IT NOT BRAVE TO BE A KING, TECHELLES? 0007420USUMCASANE AND THERIDAMAS, 0007430IS IT NOT PASSING BRAVE TO BE A KING, 0007440AND RIDE IN TRIUMPH THROUGH PERSEPOLIS? 0007450O, MY LORD, IT IS SWEET AND FULL OF POMP. 0007460TO BE A KING IS HALF TO BE A GOD. 0007470A GOD IS NOT SO GLORIOUS AS A KING. 0007480I THINK THE PLEASURE THEY ENJOY IN HEAVEN 0007490CANNOT COMPARE WITH KINGLY JOYS IN EARTH: 0007500TO WEAR A CROWN ENCHASED WITH PEARL AND GOLD, 0007510WHOSE VIRTUES CARRY WITH IT LIFE AND DEATH; 0007520TO ASK AND HAVE, COMMAND AND BE OBEYED; 0007530WHEN LOOKS BREED LOVE, WITH LOOKS TO GAIN THE PRIZE, 0007540SUCH POWER ATTRACTIVE SHINES IN PRINCES' EYES. 0007550WHY, SAY, THERIDAMAS, WILT THOU BE A KING? 0007560NAY: THOUGH I PRAISE IT, I CAN LIVE WITHOUT IT. 0007570WHAT SAY MY OTHER FRIENDS? WILL YOU BE KINGS? 0007580AY, IF I COULD, WITH ALL MY HEART, MY LORD. 0007590WHY, THAT IS WELL SAID, TECHELLES: SO WOULD I. 0007600AND SO WOULD YOU, MY MASTERS, WOULD YOU NOT? 0007610WHAT THEN, MY LORD? 0007620WHY THEN, CASANE, SHALL WE WISH FOR AUGHT 0007630THE WORLD AFFORDS IN GREATEST NOVELTY 0007640AND REST ATTEMPTLESS, FAINT AND DESTITUTE? 0007650METHINKS WE SHOULD NOT. I AM STRONGLY MOVED, 0007660THAT IF I SHOULD DESIRE THE PERSIAN CROWN, 0007670I COULD ATTAIN IT WITH A WONDROUS EASE; 0007680AND WOULD NOT ALL OUR SOLDIERS SOON CONSENT, 0007690IF WE SHOULD AIM AT SUCH A DIGNITY? 0007700I KNOW THEY WOULD WITH OUR PERSUASIONS. 0007710WHY, THEN, THERIDAMAS, I WILL FIRST ASSAY 0007720TO GET THE PERSIAN KINGDOM TO MYSELF; 0007730THEN THOU FOR PARTHIA; THEY FOR SCYTHIA AND MEDEA; 0007740AND IF I PROSPER, ALL SHALL BE AS SURE 0007750AS IF THE TURK, THE POPE, AFRIC, AND GREECE 0007760CAME CREEPING TO US WITH THEIR CROWNS APACE. 0007770THEN SHALL WE SEND TO THIS TRIUMPHING KING, 0007780AND BID HIM BATTLE FOR HIS NOVEL CROWN? 0007790NAY, QUICKLY THEN, BEFORE HIS ROOM BE HOT. 0007800IT WILL PROVE A PRETTY JEST, IN FAITH, MY FRIENDS. 0007801A JEST TO CHARGE ON TWENTY THOUSAND MEN? 0007810I JUDGE THE PURCHASE MORE IMPORTANT FAR. 0007820JUDGE BY THYSELF, THERIDAMAS, NOT ME, 0007830FOR PRESENTLY TECHELLES HERE SHALL HASTE 0007840TO BID HIM BATTLE ERE HE PASS TOO FAR 0007850AND LOSE MORE LABOUR THAN THE GAIN WILL REQUITE. 0007860THEN SHALT THOU SEE THE SCYTHIAN TAMBURLAINE 0007870MAKE BUT A JEST TO WIN THE PERSIAN CROWN. 0007880TECHELLES, TAKE A THOUSAND HORSE WITH THEE, 0007890AND BID HIM TURN HIM BACK TO WAR WITH US, 0007900THAT ONLY MADE HIM KING TO MAKE US SPORT. 0007910WE WILL NOT STEAL UPON HIM COWARDLY, 0007920BUT GIVE HIM WARNING AND MORE WARRIORS. 0007930HASTE THEE, TECHELLES; WE WILL FOLLOW THEE. 0007940WHAT SAITH THERIDAMAS? 0007950GO ON, FOR ME. 0007960WHAT MEANS THIS DEVILISH SHEPHERD TO ASPIRE 0007970WITH SUCH A GIANTLY PRESUMPTION, 0007980TO CAST UP HILLS AGAINST THE FACE OF HEAVEN, 0007990AND DARE THE FORCE OF ANGRY JUPITER? 0008000BUT AS HE THRUST THEM UNDERNEATH THE HILLS, 0008010AND PRESSED OUT FIRE FROM THEIR BURNING JAWS, 0008020SO WILL I SEND THIS MONSTROUS SLAVE TO HELL, 0008030WHERE FLAMES SHALL EVER FEED UPON HIS SOUL. 0008040SOME POWERS DIVINE, OR ELSE INFERNAL, MIXED 0008050THEIR ANGRY SEEDS AT HIS CONCEPTION, 0008060FOR HE WAS NEVER SPRUNG OF HUMAN RACE, 0008070SINCE WITH THE SPIRIT OF HIS FEARFUL PRIDE, 0008080HE DARES SO DOUBTLESSLY RESOLVE OF RULE, 0008090AND BY PROFESSION BE AMBITIOUS. 0008100WHAT GOD, OR FIEND, OR SPIRIT OF THE EARTH, 0008110OR MONSTER TURNED TO A MANLY SHAPE, 0008120OR OF WHAT MOULD OR METTLE HE BE MADE, 0008130WHAT STAR OR STATE SOEVER GOVERN HIM, 0008140LET US PUT ON OUR MEET ENCOUNTERING MINDS, 0008150AND IN DETESTING SUCH A DEVILISH THIEF, 0008160IN LOVE OF HONOUR AND DEFENCE OF RIGHT 0008170BE ARMED AGAINST THE HATE OF SUCH A FOE, 0008180WHETHER FROM EARTH, OR HELL, OR HEAVEN HE GROW. 0008190NOBLY RESOLVED, MY GOOD ORTYGIUS, 0008200AND SINCE WE ALL HAVE SUCKED ONE WHOLESOME AIR, 0008210AND WITH THE SAME PROPORTION OF ELEMENTS 0008220RESOLVE, I HOPE WE ARE RESEMBLED, 0008221VOWING OUR LOVES TO EQUAL DEATH AND LIFE. 0008230LET US CHEER OUR SOLDIERS TO ENCOUNTER HIM, 0008240THAT GRIEVOUS IMAGE OF INGRATITUDE, 0008250THAT FIERY THIRSTER AFTER SOVEREIGNTY, 0008260AND BURN HIM IN THE FURY OF THAT FLAME 0008270THAT NONE CAN QUENCH BUT BLOOD AND EMPERY. 0008280RESOLVE, MY LORDS AND LOVING SOLDIERS, NOW 0008290TO SAVE YOUR KING AND COUNTRY FROM DECAY. 0008300THEN STRIKE UP, DRUM; AND ALL THE STARS THAT MAKE 0008310THE LOATHSOME CIRCLE OF MY DATED LIFE, 0008320DIRECT MY WEAPON TO HIS BARBAROUS HEART, 0008330THAT THUS OPPOSETH HIM AGAINST THE GODS, 0008340AND SCORNS THE POWERS THAT GOVERN PERSIA. 0008350BARBAROUS AND BLOODY TAMBURLAINE, 0008360THUS TO DEPRIVE ME OF MY CROWN AND LIFE! 0008370TREACHEROUS AND FALSE THERIDAMAS, 0008380EVEN AT THE MORNING OF MY HAPPY STATE, 0008390SCARCE BEING SEATED IN MY ROYAL THRONE, 0008400TO WORK MY DOWNFALL AND UNTIMELY END! 0008410AN UNCOUTH PAIN TORMENTS MY GRIEVED SOUL, 0008420AND DEATH ARRESTS THE ORGAN OF MY VOICE, 0008430WHO, ENTERING AT THE BREACH THY SWORD HATH MADE, 0008440SACKS EVERY VEIN AND ARTIER OF MY HEART. 0008450BLOODY AND INSATIATE TAMBURLAINE! 0008460THE THIRST OF REIGN AND SWEETNESS OF A CROWN, 0008470THAT CAUSED THE ELDEST SON OF HEAVENLY OPS 0008480TO THRUST HIS DOTING FATHER FROM HIS CHAIR, 0008490AND PLACE HIMSELF IN THE EMPYREAL HEAVEN, 0008500MOVED ME TO MANAGE ARMS AGAINST THY STATE. 0008510WHAT BETTER PRECEDENT THAN MIGHTY JOVE? 0008520NATURE, THAT FRAMED US OF FOUR ELEMENTS 0008530WARRING WITHIN OUR BREASTS FOR REGIMENT, 0008540DOTH TEACH US ALL TO HAVE ASPIRING MINDS. 0008550OUR SOULS, WHOSE FACULTIES CAN COMPREHEND 0008560THE WONDROUS ARCHITECTURE OF THE WORLD 0008570AND MEASURE EVERY WANDERING PLANET'S COURSE, 0008580STILL CLIMBING AFTER KNOWLEDGE INFINITE, 0008590AND ALWAYS MOVING AS THE RESTLESS SPHERES, 0008600WILLS US TO WEAR OURSELVES AND NEVER REST, 0008610UNTIL WE REACH THE RIPEST FRUIT OF ALL, 0008620THAT PERFECT BLISS AND SOLE FELICITY, 0008630THE SWEET FRUITION OF AN EARTHLY CROWN. 0008631AND THAT MADE ME TO JOIN WITH TAMBURLAINE, 0008640FOR HE IS GROSS AND LIKE THE MASSY EARTH 0008650THAT MOVES NOT UPWARDS, NOR BY PRINCELY DEEDS 0008660DOTH MEAN TO SOAR ABOVE THE HIGHEST SORT. 0008670AND THAT MADE US, THE FRIENDS OF TAMBURLAINE, 0008680TO LIFT OUR SWORDS AGAINST THE PERSIAN KING. 0008690FOR AS WHEN JOVE DID THRUST OLD SATURN DOWN, 0008700NEPTUNE AND DIS GAINED EACH OF THEM A CROWN, 0008710SO DO WE HOPE TO REIGN IN ASIA, 0008720IF TAMBURLAINE BE PLACED IN PERSIA. 0008730THE STRANGEST MEN THAT EVER NATURE MADE! 0008740I KNOW NOT HOW TO TAKE THEIR TYRANNIES. 0008750MY BLOODLESS BODY WAXETH CHILL AND COLD, 0008760AND WITH MY BLOOD MY LIFE SLIDES THROUGH MY WOUND; 0008770MY SOUL BEGINS TO TAKE HER FLIGHT TO HELL 0008780AND SUMMONS ALL MY SENSES TO DEPART. 0008790THE HEAT AND MOISTURE WHICH DID FEED EACH OTHER, 0008800FOR WANT OF NOURISHMENT TO FEED THEM BOTH, 0008810IS DRY AND COLD; AND NOW DOTH GHASTLY DEATH 0008820WITH GREEDY TALENTS GRIPE MY BLEEDING HEART 0008830AND LIKE A HARPY TIRES ON MY LIFE. 0008840THERIDAMAS AND TAMBURLAINE, I DIE: 0008850AND FEARFUL VENGEANCE LIGHT UPON YOU BOTH! 0008860NOT ALL THE CURSES WHICH THE FURIES BREATHE 0008870SHALL MAKE ME LEAVE SO RICH A PRIZE AS THIS. 0008880THERIDAMAS, TECHELLES, AND THE REST, 0008890WHO THINK YOU NOW IS KING OF PERSIA? 0008900TAMBURLAINE! TAMBURLAINE! 0008910THOUGH MARS HIMSELF, THE ANGRY GOD OF ARMS, 0008920AND ALL THE EARTHLY POTENTATES CONSPIRE 0008930TO DISPOSSESS ME OF THIS DIADEM, 0008940YET WILL I WEAR IT IN DESPITE OF THEM, 0008950AS GREAT COMMANDER OF THIS EASTERN WORLD, 0008960IF YOU BUT SAY THAT TAMBURLAINE SHALL REIGN. 0008970LONG LIVE TAMBURLAINE, AND REIGN IN ASIA! 0008980SO; NOW IT IS MORE SURER ON MY HEAD 0008990THAN IF THE GODS HAD HELD A PARLIAMENT, 0009000AND ALL PRONOUNCED ME KING OF PERSIA. 0009010GREAT KINGS OF BARBARY AND MY PORTLY BASSOES, 0009011WE HEAR THE TARTARS AND THE EASTERN THIEVES, 0009020UNDER THE CONDUCT OF ONE TAMBURLAINE, 0009030PRESUME A BICKERING WITH YOUR EMPEROR, 0009040AND THINKS TO ROUSE US FROM OUR DREADFUL SIEGE 0009050OF THE FAMOUS GRECIAN CONSTANTINOPLE. 0009060YOU KNOW OUR ARMY IS INVINCIBLE; 0009070AS MANY CIRCUMCISED TURKS WE HAVE, 0009080AND WARLIKE BANDS OF CHRISTIANS RENIED, 0009090AS HATH THE OCEAN OR THE TERRENE SEA 0009100SMALL DROPS OF WATER WHEN THE MOON BEGINS 0009110TO JOIN IN ONE HER SEMICIRCLED HORNS. 0009120YET WOULD WE NOT BE BRAVED WITH FOREIGN POWER, 0009130NOR RAISE OUR SIEGE BEFORE THE GRECIANS YIELD 0009140OR BREATHLESS LIE BEFORE THE CITY WALLS. 0009150RENOWNED EMPEROR AND MIGHTY GENERAL, 0009160WHAT IF YOU SENT THE BASSOES OF YOUR GUARD 0009170TO CHARGE HIM TO REMAIN IN ASIA, 0009180OR ELSE TO THREATEN DEATH AND DEADLY ARMS 0009190AS FROM THE MOUTH OF MIGHTY BAJAZETH? 0009200HIE THEE, MY BASSO, FAST TO PERSIA. 0009210TELL HIM THY LORD, THE TURKISH EMPEROR, 0009220DREAD LORD OF AFRIC, EUROPE, AND ASIA, 0009230GREAT KING AND CONQUEROR OF GRAECIA, 0009240THE OCEAN, TERRENE, AND THE COAL-BLACK SEA, 0009250THE HIGH AND HIGHEST MONARCH OF THE WORLD, 0009260WILLS AND COMMANDS, (FOR SAY NOT I ENTREAT,) 0009270NOT ONCE TO SET HIS FOOT IN AFRICA, 0009280OR SPREAD HIS COLOURS IN GRAECIA, 0009290LEST HE INCUR THE FURY OF MY WRATH. 0009300TELL HIM I AM CONTENT TO TAKE A TRUCE, 0009310BECAUSE I HEAR HE BEARS A VALIANT MIND; 0009320BUT IF, PRESUMING ON HIS SILLY POWER, 0009330HE BE SO MAD TO MANAGE ARMS WITH ME, 0009340THEN STAY THOU WITH HIM, - SAY, I BID THEE SO - 0009350AND IF, BEFORE THE SUN HAVE MEASURED HEAVEN 0009360WITH TRIPLE CIRCUIT, THOU REGREET US NOT, 0009370WE MEAN TO TAKE HIS MORNING'S NEXT ARISE 0009380FOR MESSENGER HE WILL NOT BE RECLAIMED, 0009390AND MEAN TO FETCH THEE IN DESPITE OF HIM. 0009400MOST GREAT AND PUISSANT MONARCH OF THE EARTH, 0009410YOUR BASSO WILL ACCOMPLISH YOUR BEHEST 0009420AND SHOW YOUR PLEASURE TO THE PERSIAN, 0009430AS FITS THE LEGATE OF THE STATELY TURK. 0009440THEY SAY HE IS THE KING OF PERSIA; 0009450BUT IF HE DARE ATTEMPT TO STIR YOUR SIEGE, 0009451IT WERE REQUISITE HE SHOULD BE TEN TIMES MORE, 0009460FOR ALL FLESH QUAKES AT YOUR MAGNIFICENCE. 0009470TRUE, ARGIER, AND TREMBLES AT MY LOOKS. 0009480THE SPRING IS HINDERED BY YOUR SMOTHERING 0009490HOST, 0009500FOR NEITHER RAIN CAN FALL UPON THE EARTH, 0009510NOR SUN REFLEX HIS VIRTUOUS BEAMS THEREON, 0009520THE GROUND IS MANTLED WITH SUCH MULTITUDES. 0009530ALL THIS IS TRUE AS HOLY MAHOMET, 0009540AND ALL THE TREES ARE BLASTED WITH OUR BREATHS. 0009550WHAT THINKS YOUR GREATNESS BEST TO BE 0009560ACHIEVED 0009570IN PURSUIT OF THE CITY'S OVERTHROW? 0009580I WILL THE CAPTIVE PIONERS OF ARGIER 0009590CUT OFF THE WATER THAT BY LEADEN PIPES 0009600RUNS TO THE CITY FROM THE MOUNTAIN CARNON. 0009610TWO THOUSAND HORSE SHALL FORAGE UP AND DOWN, 0009620THAT NO RELIEF OR SUCCOUR COME BY LAND, 0009630AND ALL THE SEA MY GALLEYS COUNTERMAND. 0009640THEN SHALL OUR FOOTMEN LIE WITHIN THE TRENCH, 0009650AND WITH THEIR CANNONS MOUTHED LIKE ORCUS' GULF, 0009660BATTER THE WALLS, AND WE WILL ENTER IN; 0009670AND THUS THE GRECIANS SHALL BE CONQUERED. 0009680MADAM ZENOCRATE, MAY I PRESUME 0009690TO KNOW THE CAUSE OF THESE UNQUIET FITS 0009700THAT WORK SUCH TROUBLE TO YOUR WONTED REST? 0009710IT IS MORE THAN PITY SUCH A HEAVENLY FACE 0009720SHOULD BY HEART'S SORROW WAX SO WAN AND PALE, 0009730WHEN YOUR OFFENSIVE RAPE BY TAMBURLAINE, 0009740(WHICH OF YOUR WHOLE DISPLEASURES SHOULD BE MOST) 0009750HATH SEEMED TO BE DIGESTED LONG AGO. 0009760ALTHOUGH IT BE DIGESTED LONG AGO, 0009770AS HIS EXCEEDING FAVOURS HAVE DESERVED, 0009780AND MIGHT CONTENT THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN AS WELL 0009790AS IT HATH CHANGED MY FIRST-CONCEIVED DISDAIN; 0009800YET, SINCE A FARTHER PASSION FEEDS MY THOUGHTS 0009810WITH CEASELESS AND DISCONSOLATE CONCEITS. 0009820WHICH DYES MY LOOKS SO LIFELESS AS THEY ARE, 0009830AND MIGHT, IF MY EXTREMES HAD FULL EVENTS, 0009840MAKE ME THE GHASTLY COUNTERFEIT OF DEATH. 0009850ETERNAL HEAVEN SOONER BE DISSOLVED, 0009851AND ALL THAT PIERCETH PHOEBE'S SILVER EYE, 0009860BEFORE SUCH HAP FALL TO ZENOCRATE! 0009870AH, LIFE AND SOUL, STILL HOVER IN HIS BREAST, 0009880AND LEAVE MY BODY SENSELESS AS THE EARTH, 0009890OR ELSE UNITE YOU TO HIS LIFE AND SOUL, 0009900THAT I MAY LIVE AND DIE WITH TAMBURLAINE! 0009910WITH TAMBURLAINE? AH, FAIR ZENOCRATE, 0009920LET NOT A MAN SO VILE AND BARBAROUS, 0009930THAT HOLDS YOU FROM YOUR FATHER IN DESPITE 0009940AND KEEPS YOU FROM THE HONOURS OF A QUEEN, 0009950(BEING SUPPOSED HIS WORTHLESS CONCUBINE,) 0009960BE HONOURED WITH YOUR LOVE, BUT FOR NECESSITY. 0009970SO, NOW THE MIGHTY SOLDAN HEARS OF YOU, 0009980YOUR HIGHNESS NEEDS NOT DOUBT BUT IN SHORT TIME 0009990HE WILL, WITH TAMBURLAINE'S DESTRUCTION, 0010000REDEEM YOU FROM THIS DEADLY SERVITUDE. 0010010LEAVE TO WOUND ME WITH THESE WORDS, 0010020AND SPEAK OF TAMBURLAINE AS HE DESERVES. 0010030THE ENTERTAINMENT WE HAVE HAD OF HIM 0010040IS FAR FROM VILLAINY OR SERVITUDE, 0010050AND MIGHT IN NOBLE MINDS BE COUNTED PRINCELY. 0010060HOW CAN YOU FANCY ONE THAT LOOKS SO FIERCE, 0010070ONLY DISPOSED TO MARTIAL STRATAGEMS? 0010080WHO, WHEN HE SHALL EMBRACE YOU IN HIS ARMS, 0010090WILL TELL HOW MANY THOUSAND MEN HE SLEW, 0010100AND, WHEN YOU LOOK FOR AMOROUS DISCOURSE, 0010110WILL RATTLE FORTH HIS FACTS OF WAR AND BLOOD, 0010120TOO HARSH A SUBJECT FOR YOUR DAINTY EARS. 0010130AS LOOKS THE SUN THROUGH NILUS' FLOWING STREAM, 0010140OR WHEN THE MORNING HOLDS HIM IN HER ARMS, 0010150SO LOOKS MY LORDLY LOVE, FAIR TAMBURLAINE; 0010160HIS TALK MUCH SWEETER THAN THE MUSES' SONG 0010170THEY SUNG FOR HONOUR AGAINST PIERIDES, 0010180OR WHEN MINERVA DID WITH NEPTUNE STRIVE; 0010190AND HIGHER WOULD I REAR MY ESTIMATE 0010200THAN JUNO, SISTER TO THE HIGHEST GOD, 0010210IF I WERE MATCHED WITH MIGHTY TAMBURLAINE. 0010220YET BE NOT SO INCONSTANT IN YOUR LOVE, 0010230BUT LET THE YOUNG ARABIAN LIVE IN HOPE, 0010240AFTER YOUR RESCUE TO ENJOY HIS CHOICE. 0010250YOU SEE, THOUGH FIRST THE KING OF PERSIA, 0010260BEING A SHEPHERD, SEEMED TO LOVE YOU MUCH, 0010270NOW, IN HIS MAJESTY, HE LEAVES THOSE LOOKS, 0010271THOSE WORDS OF FAVOUR, AND THOSE COMFORTINGS, 0010280AND GIVES NO MORE THAN COMMON COURTESIES. 0010290THENCE RISE THE TEARS THAT SO DISTAIN MY CHEEKS, 0010300FEARING HIS LOVE THROUGH MY UNWORTHINESS. 0010310BETRAYED BY FORTUNE AND SUSPICIOUS LOVE, 0010320THREATENED WITH FROWNING WRATH AND JEALOUSY, 0010330SURPRISED WITH FEAR OF HIDEOUS REVENGE, 0010340I STAND AGHAST; BUT MOST ASTONIED 0010350TO SEE HIS CHOLER SHUT IN SECRET THOUGHTS, 0010360AND WRAPPED IN SILENCE OF HIS ANGRY SOUL. 0010370UPON HIS BROWS WAS PORTRAYED UGLY DEATH, 0010380AND IN HIS EYES THE FURY OF HIS HEART, 0010390THAT SHINE AS COMETS, MENACING REVENGE, 0010400AND CASTS A PALE COMPLEXION ON HIS CHEEKS. 0010410AS WHEN THE SEAMAN SEES THE HYADES 0010420GATHER AN ARMY OF CIMMERIAN CLOUDS, 0010430(AUSTER AND AQUILON WITH WINGED STEEDS, 0010440ALL SWEATING, TILT ABOUT THE WATERY HEAVENS, 0010450WITH SHIVERING SPEARS ENFORCING THUNDERCLAPS, 0010460AND FROM THEIR SHIELDS STRIKE FLAMES OF LIGHTNING) 0010470ALL FEARFUL FOLDS HIS SAILS AND SOUNDS THE MAIN, 0010480LIFTING HIS PRAYERS TO THE HEAVENS FOR AID 0010490AGAINST THE TERROR OF THE WINDS AND WAVES, 0010500SO FARES AGYDAS FOR THE LATE-FELT FROWNS 0010510THAT SENT A TEMPEST TO MY DAUNTED THOUGHTS 0010520AND MAKES MY SOUL DIVINE HER OVERTHROW. 0010530SEE YOU, AGYDAS, HOW THE KING SALUTES YOU. 0010540HE BIDS YOU PROPHESY WHAT IT IMPORTS. 0010550I PROPHESIED BEFORE, AND NOW I PROVE 0010560THE KILLING FROWNS OF JEALOUSY AND LOVE. 0010570HE NEEDED NOT WITH WORDS CONFIRM MY FEAR, 0010580FOR WORDS ARE VAIN WHERE WORKING TOOLS PRESENT 0010590THE NAKED ACTION OF MY THREATENED END. 0010600IT SAYS, AGYDAS, THOU SHALT SURELY DIE, 0010610AND OF EXTREMITIES ELECT THE LEAST. 0010620MORE HONOUR AND LESS PAIN IT MAY PROCURE, 0010630TO DIE BY THIS RESOLVED HAND OF THINE 0010640THAN STAY THE TORMENTS HE AND HEAVEN HAVE SWORN. 0010650THEN HASTE, AGYDAS, AND PREVENT THE PLAGUES 0010660WHICH THY PROLONGED FATES MAY DRAW ON THEE. 0010661GO WANDER FREE FROM FEAR OF TYRANT'S RAGE, 0010670REMOVED FROM THE TORMENTS AND THE HELL 0010680WHEREWITH HE MAY EXCRUCIATE THY SOUL, 0010690AND LET AGYDAS BY AGYDAS DIE, 0010700AND WITH THIS STAB SLUMBER ETERNALLY. 0010710USUMCASANE, SEE, HOW RIGHT THE MAN 0010720HATH HIT THE MEANING OF MY LORD AND KING. 0010730FAITH, AND TECHELLES, IT WAS MANLY DONE; 0010740AND, SINCE HE WAS SO WISE AND HONOURABLE, 0010750LET US AFFORD HIM NOW THE BEARING HENCE, 0010760AND CRAVE HIS TRIPLE-WORTHY BURIAL. 0010770AGREED, CASANE; WE WILL HONOUR HIM. 0010780BASSO, BY THIS THY LORD AND MASTER KNOWS 0010790I MEAN TO MEET HIM IN BITHYNIA. 0010800SEE, HOW HE COMES! TUSH, TURKS ARE FULL OF BRAGS 0010810AND MENACE MORE THAN THEY CAN WELL PERFORM. 0010820HE MEET ME IN THE FIELD AND FETCH THEE HENCE! 0010830ALAS, POOR TURK, HIS FORTUNE IS TOO WEAK 0010840TO ENCOUNTER WITH THE STRENGTH OF TAMBURLAINE. 0010850VIEW WELL MY CAMP, AND SPEAK INDIFFERENTLY: 0010860DO NOT MY CAPTAINS AND MY SOLDIERS LOOK 0010870AS IF THEY MEANT TO CONQUER AFRICA? 0010880YOUR MEN ARE VALIANT, BUT THEIR NUMBER FEW, 0010890AND CANNOT TERRIFY HIS MIGHTY HOST. 0010900MY LORD, THE GREAT COMMANDER OF THE WORLD, 0010910BESIDES FIFTEEN CONTRIBUTORY KINGS, 0010920HATH NOW IN ARMS TEN THOUSAND JANISSARIES, 0010930MOUNTED ON LUSTY MAURITANIAN STEEDS, 0010940BROUGHT TO THE WAR BY MEN OF TRIPOLI; 0010950TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND FOOTMEN THAT HAVE SERVED 0010960IN TWO SET BATTLES FOUGHT IN GRAECIA; 0010970AND FOR THE EXPEDITION OF THIS WAR, 0010980IF HE THINK GOOD, CAN FROM HIS GARRISONS 0010990WITHDRAW AS MANY MORE TO FOLLOW HIM. 0011000THE MORE HE BRINGS, THE GREATER IS THE SPOIL, 0011010FOR WHEN THEY PERISH BY OUR WARLIKE HANDS, 0011020WE MEAN TO SET OUR FOOTMEN ON THEIR STEEDS 0011030AND RIFLE ALL THOSE STATELY JANISSARS. 0011040BUT WILL THOSE KINGS ACCOMPANY YOUR LORD? 0011050SUCH AS HIS HIGHNESS PLEASE; BUT SOME MUST STAY 0011060TO RULE THE PROVINCES HE LATE SUBDUED. 0011061THEN FIGHT COURAGEOUSLY! THEIR CROWNS ARE YOURS! 0011070THIS HAND SHALL SET THEM ON YOUR CONQUERING HEADS, 0011080THAT MADE ME EMPEROR OF ASIA. 0011090LET HIM BRING MILLIONS INFINITE OF MEN, 0011100UNPEOPLING WESTERN AFRICA AND GREECE, 0011110YET WE ASSURE US OF THE VICTORY. 0011120EVEN HE, THAT IN A TRICE VANQUISHED TWO KINGS 0011130MORE MIGHTY THAN THE TURKISH EMPEROR, 0011140SHALL ROUSE HIM OUT OF EUROPE AND PURSUE 0011150HIS SCATTERED ARMY TILL THEY YIELD OR DIE. 0011160WELL SAID, THERIDAMAS! SPEAK IN THAT MOOD, 0011170FOR "WILL" AND "SHALL" BEST FITTETH TAMBURLAINE, 0011180WHOSE SMILING STARS GIVE HIM ASSURED HOPE 0011190OF MARTIAL TRIUMPH, ERE HE MEET HIS FOES. 0011200I THAT AM TERMED THE SCOURGE AND WRATH OF GOD, 0011210THE ONLY FEAR AND TERROR OF THE WORLD, 0011220WILL FIRST SUBDUE THE TURK, AND THEN ENLARGE 0011230THOSE CHRISTIAN CAPTIVES WHICH YOU KEEP AS SLAVES, 0011240BURDENING THEIR BODIES WITH YOUR HEAVY CHAINS, 0011250AND FEEDING THEM WITH THIN AND SLENDER FARE, 0011260THAT NAKED ROW ABOUT THE TERRENE SEA, 0011270AND, WHEN THEY CHANCE TO BREATHE AND REST A SPACE, 0011280ARE PUNISHED WITH BASTONES SO GRIEVOUSLY 0011290THAT THEY LIE PANTING ON THE GALLEY'S SIDE, 0011300AND STRIVE FOR LIFE AT EVERY STROKE THEY GIVE. 0011310THESE ARE THE CRUEL PIRATES OF ARGIER, 0011320THAT DAMNED TRAIN, THE SCUM OF AFRICA, 0011330INHABITED WITH STRAGGLING RUNAGATES, 0011340THAT MAKE QUICK HAVOC OF THE CHRISTIAN BLOOD. 0011350BUT, AS I LIVE, THAT TOWN SHALL CURSE THE TIME 0011360THAT TAMBURLAINE SET FOOT IN AFRICA. 0011370BASSOES AND JANISSARIES OF MY GUARD, 0011380ATTEND UPON THE PERSON OF YOUR LORD, 0011390THE GREATEST POTENTATE OF AFRICA. 0011400TECHELLES AND THE REST, PREPARE YOUR SWORDS; 0011410I MEAN TO ENCOUNTER WITH THAT BAJAZETH. 0011420KINGS OF FEZ, MOROCCUS, AND ARGIER, 0011430HE CALLS ME BAJAZETH, WHOM YOU CALL LORD! 0011440NOTE THE PRESUMPTION OF THIS SCYTHIAN SLAVE! 0011450I TELL THEE, VILLAIN, THOSE THAT LEAD MY HORSE 0011460HAVE TO THEIR NAMES TITLES OF DIGNITY, 0011470AND DAREST THOU BLUNTLY CALL ME BAJAZETH? 0011471AND KNOW THOU TURK, THAT THOSE WHICH LEAD MY HORSE 0011490SHALL LEAD THEE CAPTIVE THOROUGH AFRICA, 0011500AND DAREST THOU BLUNTLY CALL ME TAMBURLAINE? 0011510BY MAHOMET MY KINSMAN'S SEPULCHER, 0011520AND BY THE HOLY ALCORAN I SWEAR, 0011530HE SHALL BE MADE A CHASTE AND LUSTLESS EUNUCH, 0011540AND IN MY SARELL TEND MY CONCUBINES; 0011550AND ALL HIS CAPTAINS, THAT THUS STOUTLY STAND, 0011560SHALL DRAW THE CHARIOT OF MY EMPERESS, 0011570WHOM I HAVE BROUGHT TO SEE THEIR OVERTHROW. 0011580BY THIS MY SWORD THAT CONQUERED PERSIA, 0011590THY FALL SHALL MAKE ME FAMOUS THROUGH THE WORLD. 0011600I WILL NOT TELL THEE HOW I WILL HANDLE THEE, 0011610BUT EVERY COMMON SOLDIER OF MY CAMP 0011620SHALL SMILE TO SEE THY MISERABLE STATE. 0011630WHAT MEANS THE MIGHTY TURKISH EMPEROR 0011640TO TALK WITH ONE SO BASE AS TAMBURLAINE? 0011650YE MOORS AND VALIANT MEN OF BARBARY, 0011660HOW CAN YE SUFFER THESE INDIGNITIES? 0011670LEAVE WORDS, AND LET THEM FEEL YOUR 0011680LANCES' POINTS, 0011690WHICH GLIDED THROUGH THE BOWELS OF THE GREEKS. 0011700WELL SAID, MY STOUT CONTRIBUTORY KINGS. 0011710YOUR THREEFOLD ARMY AND MY HUGY HOST 0011720SHALL SWALLOW UP THESE BASE-BORN PERSIANS. 0011730PUISSANT, RENOWNED, AND MIGHTY TAMBURLAINE, 0011740WHY STAY WE THUS PROLONGING ALL THEIR LIVES? 0011750I LONG TO SEE THOSE CROWNS WON BY OUR SWORDS, 0011760THAT WE MAY REIGN AS KINGS OF AFRICA. 0011770WHAT COWARD WOULD NOT FIGHT FOR SUCH A PRIZE? 0011780FIGHT ALL COURAGEOUSLY, AND BE YOU KINGS. 0011790I SPEAK IT, AND MY WORDS ARE ORACLES. 0011800ZABINA, MOTHER OF THREE BRAVER BOYS 0011810THAN HERCULES, THAT IN HIS INFANCY 0011820DID PASH THE JAWS OF SERPENTS VENOMOUS, 0011830WHOSE HANDS ARE MADE TO GRIPE A WARLIKE LANCE, 0011840THEIR SHOULDERS BROAD, FOR COMPLETE ARMOUR FIT, 0011850THEIR LIMBS MORE LARGE AND OF A BIGGER SIZE 0011860THAN ALL THE BRATS Y-SPRUNG FROM TYPHON'S LOINS, 0011870WHO, WHEN THEY COME UNTO THEIR FATHER'S AGE, 0011880WILL BATTER TURRETS WITH THEIR MANLY FISTS - 0011890SIT HERE UPON THIS ROYAL CHAIR OF STATE, 0011891AND ON THY HEAD WEAR MY IMPERIAL CROWN 0011900UNTIL I BRING THIS STURDY TAMBURLAINE 0011910AND ALL HIS CAPTAINS BOUND IN CAPTIVE CHAINS. 0011920SUCH GOOD SUCCESS HAPPEN TO BAJAZETH! 0011930ZENOCRATE, THE LOVELIEST MAID ALIVE, 0011940FAIRER THAN ROCKS OF PEARL AND PRECIOUS STONE, 0011950THE ONLY PARAGON OF TAMBURLAINE, 0011960WHOSE EYES ARE BRIGHTER THAN THE LAMPS OF HEAVEN 0011970AND SPEECH MORE PLEASANT THAN SWEET HARMONY, 0011980THAT WITH THY LOOKS CANST CLEAR THE DARKENED SKY 0011990AND CALM THE RAGE OF THUNDERING JUPITER - 0012000SIT DOWN BY HER, ADORNED WITH MY CROWN, 0012010AS IF THOU WERT THE EMPRESS OF THE WORLD. 0012020STIR NOT, ZENOCRATE, UNTIL THOU SEE 0012030ME MARCH VICTORIOUSLY WITH ALL MY MEN, 0012040TRIUMPHING OVER HIM AND THESE HIS KINGS, 0012050WHICH I WILL BRING AS VASSALS TO THY FEET. 0012060TILL THEN, TAKE THOU MY CROWN, VAUNT OF MY WORTH, 0012070AND MANAGE WORDS WITH HER, AS WE WILL ARMS. 0012080AND MAY MY LOVE, THE KING OF PERSIA, 0012090RETURN WITH VICTORY AND FREE FROM WOUND! 0012100NOW SHALT THOU FEEL THE FORCE OF TURKISH ARMS, 0012110WHICH LATELY MADE ALL EUROPE QUAKE FOR FEAR. 0012120I HAVE OF TURKS, ARABIANS, MOORS, AND JEWS, 0012130ENOUGH TO COVER ALL BITHYNIA. 0012140LET THOUSANDS DIE! THEIR SLAUGHTERED CARCASSES 0012150SHALL SERVE FOR WALLS AND BULWARKS TO THE REST; 0012160AND AS THE HEADS OF HYDRA, SO MY POWER, 0012170SUBDUED, SHALL STAND AS MIGHTY AS BEFORE. 0012180IF THEY SHOULD YIELD THEIR NECKS UNTO THE SWORD, 0012190THY SOLDIERS' ARMS COULD NOT ENDURE TO STRIKE 0012200SO MANY BLOWS AS I HAVE HEADS FOR THEE. 0012210THOU KNOWEST NOT, (FOOLISH-HARDY TAMBURLAINE,) 0012220WHAT IT IS TO MEET ME IN THE OPEN FIELD, 0012230THAT LEAVE NO GROUND FOR THEE TO MARCH UPON. 0012240OUR CONQUERING SWORDS SHALL MARSHAL US THE WAY 0012250WE USE TO MARCH UPON THE SLAUGHTERED FOE, 0012260TRAMPLING THEIR BOWELS WITH OUR HORSES' HOOFS, 0012270BRAVE HORSES BRED ON THE WHITE TARTARIAN HILLS. 0012280MY CAMP IS LIKE TO JULIUS CAESAR'S HOST, 0012290THAT NEVER FOUGHT BUT HAD THE VICTORY; 0012300NOR IN PHARSALIA WAS THERE SUCH HOT WAR 0012310AS THESE, MY FOLLOWERS, WILLINGLY WOULD HAVE. 0012311LEGIONS OF SPIRITS FLEETING IN THE AIR 0012320DIRECT OUR BULLETS AND OUR WEAPONS' POINTS, 0012330AND MAKE YOUR STROKES TO WOUND THE SENSELESS AIR; 0012340AND WHEN SHE SEES OUR BLOODY COLOURS SPREAD, 0012350THEN VICTORY BEGINS TO TAKE HER FLIGHT, 0012360RESTING HERSELF UPON MY MILK-WHITE TENT. 0012370BUT COME, MY LORDS, TO WEAPONS LET US FALL; 0012380THE FIELD IS OURS, THE TURK, HIS WIFE, AND ALL. 0012390COME, KINGS AND BASSOES, LET US GLUT OUR SWORDS, 0012400THAT THIRST TO DRINK THE FEEBLE PERSIANS' BLOOD. 0012420BASE CONCUBINE, MUST THOU BE PLACED BY ME 0012430THAT AM THE EMPRESS OF THE MIGHTY TURK? 0012440DISDAINFUL TURKESS, AND UNREVEREND BOSS, 0012450CALLEST THOU ME CONCUBINE, THAT AM BETROTHED 0012460UNTO THE GREAT AND MIGHTY TAMBURLAINE? 0012470TO TAMBURLAINE, THE GREAT TARTARIAN THIEF! 0012480THOU WILT REPENT THESE LAVISH WORDS OF THINE 0012490WHEN THY GREAT BASSO-MASTER AND THYSELF 0012500MUST PLEAD FOR MERCY AT HIS KINGLY FEET, 0012510AND SUE TO ME TO BE YOUR ADVOCATES. 0012520AND SUE TO THEE? I TELL THEE, SHAMELESS GIRL, 0012530THOU SHALT BE LAUNDRESS TO MY WAITING-MAID. 0012540HOW LIKEST THOU HER, EBEA? WILL SHE SERVE? 0012550MADAM, SHE THINKS PERHAPS SHE IS TOO FINE, 0012560BUT I SHALL TURN HER INTO OTHER WEEDS 0012570AND MAKE HER DAINTY FINGERS FALL TO WORK. 0012580HEAREST THOU, ANIPPE, HOW THY DRUDGE DOTH TALK, 0012590AND HOW MY SLAVE, HER MISTRESS, MENACETH? 0012600BOTH FOR THEIR SAUCINESS SHALL BE EMPLOYED 0012610TO DRESS THE COMMON SOLDIERS' MEAT AND DRINK, 0012620FOR WE WILL SCORN THEY SHOULD COME NEAR OURSELVES. 0012630YET SOMETIMES LET YOUR HIGHNESS SEND FOR THEM 0012640TO DO THE WORK MY CHAMBERMAID DISDAINS. 0012650YE GODS AND POWERS THAT GOVERN PERSIA, 0012660AND MADE MY LORDLY LOVE HER WORTHY KING, 0012670NOW STRENGTHEN HIM AGAINST THE TURKISH BAJAZETH, 0012680AND LET HIS FOES, LIKE FLOCKS OF FEARFUL ROES 0012690PURSUED BY HUNTERS, FLY HIS ANGRY LOOKS, 0012700THAT I MAY SEE HIM ISSUE CONQUEROR. 0012701NOW, MAHOMET, SOLICIT GOD HIMSELF, 0012710AND MAKE HIM RAIN DOWN MURDERING SHOT FROM HEAVEN 0012720TO DASH THE SCYTHIANS' BRAINS, AND STRIKE THEM DEAD 0012730THAT DARE TO MANAGE ARMS WITH HIM 0012740THAT OFFERED JEWELS TO THY SACRED SHRINE 0012750WHEN FIRST HE WARRED AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 0012760BY THIS THE TURKS LIE WELTERING IN THEIR BLOOD, 0012770AND TAMBURLAINE IS LORD OF AFRICA. 0012780THOU ART DECEIVED. I HEARD THE TRUMPETS SOUND 0012790AS WHEN MY EMPEROR OVERTHREW THE GREEKS 0012800AND LED THEM CAPTIVE INTO AFRICA. 0012810STRAIGHT WILL I USE THEE AS THY PRIDE DESERVES; 0012820PREPARE THYSELF TO LIVE AND DIE MY SLAVE. 0012830IF MAHOMET SHOULD COME FROM HEAVEN AND SWEAR 0012840MY ROYAL LORD IS SLAIN OR CONQUERED, 0012850YET SHOULD HE NOT PERSUADE ME OTHERWISE 0012860BUT THAT HE LIVES AND WILL BE CONQUEROR. 0012870NOW, KING OF BASSOES, WHO IS CONQUEROR? 0012880THOU, BY THE FORTUNE OF THIS DAMNED FOIL. 0012890WHERE ARE YOUR STOUT CONTRIBUTORY KINGS? 0012910WE HAVE THEIR CROWNS; THEIR BODIES STROW THE 0012920FIELD. 0012930EACH MAN A CROWN? WHY, KINGLY FOUGHT, IN FAITH. 0012940DELIVER THEM INTO MY TREASURY. 0012950NOW LET ME OFFER TO MY GRACIOUS LORD 0012960HIS ROYAL CROWN AGAIN, SO HIGHLY WON. 0012970NAY, TAKE THE TURKISH CROWN FROM HER, ZENOCRATE, 0012980AND CROWN ME EMPEROR OF AFRICA. 0012990NO, TAMBURLAINE; THOUGH NOW THOU GAT THE BEST, 0013000THOU SHALT NOT YET BE LORD OF AFRICA. 0013010GIVE HER THE CROWN, TURKESS, YOU WERE BEST. 0013020INJURIOUS VILLAINS, THIEVES, RUNAGATES, 0013030HOW DARE YOU THUS ABUSE MY MAJESTY? 0013040HERE, MADAM, YOU ARE EMPRESS; SHE IS NONE. 0013050NOT NOW, THERIDAMAS; HER TIME IS PAST. 0013060THE PILLARS THAT HAVE BOLSTERED UP THOSE TERMS 0013061ARE FALLEN IN CLUSTERS AT MY CONQUERING FEET. 0013070THOUGH HE BE PRISONER, HE MAY BE RANSOMED. 0013080NOT ALL THE WORLD SHALL RANSOM BAJAZETH. 0013090AH, FAIR ZABINA, WE HAVE LOST THE FIELD, 0013100AND NEVER HAD THE TURKISH EMPEROR 0013110SO GREAT A FOIL BY ANY FOREIGN FOE. 0013120NOW WILL THE CHRISTIAN MISCREANTS BE GLAD, 0013130RINGING WITH JOY THEIR SUPERSTITIOUS BELLS, 0013140AND MAKING BONFIRES FOR MY OVERTHROW. 0013150BUT ERE I DIE, THOSE FOUL IDOLATERS 0013160SHALL MAKE ME BONFIRES WITH THEIR FILTHY BONES, 0013170FOR THOUGH THE GLORY OF THIS DAY BE LOST, 0013180AFRIC AND GREECE HAVE GARRISONS ENOUGH 0013190TO MAKE ME SOVEREIGN OF THE EARTH AGAIN. 0013200THOSE WALLED GARRISONS WILL I SUBDUE, 0013210AND WRITE MYSELF GREAT LORD OF AFRICA. 0013220SO FROM THE EAST UNTO THE FURTHEST WEST 0013230SHALL TAMBURLAINE EXTEND HIS PUISSANT ARM. 0013240THE GALLEYS AND THOSE PILLING BRIGANDINES, 0013250THAT YEARLY SAIL TO THE VENETIAN GULF 0013260AND HOVER IN THE STRAITS FOR CHRISTIANS' WRACK, 0013270SHALL LIE AT ANCHOR IN THE ISLE ASANT, 0013280UNTIL THE PERSIAN FLEET AND MEN-OF-WAR, 0013290SAILING ALONG THE ORIENTAL SEA, 0013300HAVE FETCHED ABOUT THE INDIAN CONTINENT, 0013310EVEN FROM PERSEPOLIS TO MEXICO, 0013320AND THENCE UNTO THE STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR, 0013330WHERE THEY SHALL MEET AND JOIN THEIR FORCE IN ONE, 0013340KEEPING IN AWE THE BAY OF PORTINGALE 0013350AND ALL THE OCEAN BY THE BRITISH SHORE; 0013360AND BY THIS MEANS I WILL WIN THE WORLD AT LAST. 0013370YET SET A RANSOM ON ME, TAMBURLAINE. 0013380WHAT, THINKEST THOU TAMBURLAINE ESTEEMS THY GOLD? 0013390I WILL MAKE THE KINGS OF INDIA, ERE I DIE, 0013400OFFER THEIR MINES TO SUE FOR PEACE TO ME. 0013410AND DIG FOR TREASURE TO APPEASE MY WRATH. 0013420COME, BIND THEM BOTH, AND ONE LEAD IN THE TURK; 0013430THE TURKESS LET MY LOVE'S MAID LEAD AWAY. 0013440AH, VILLAINS, DARE YE TOUCH MY SACRED ARMS? 0013450O MAHOMET! O SLEEPY MAHOMET! 0013460O CURSED MAHOMET, THAT MAKEST US THUS 0013470THE SLAVES TO SCYTHIANS RUDE AND BARBAROUS! 0013480COME, BRING THEM IN, AND FOR THIS HAPPY CONQUEST 0013490TRIUMPH, AND SOLEMNIZE A MARTIAL FEAST. 0013500AWAKE, YE MEN OF MEMPHIS! HEAR THE CLANG 0013510OF SCYTHIAN TRUMPETS! HEAR THE BASILISKS, 0013520THAT ROARING SHAKE DAMASCUS' TURRETS DOWN! 0013530THE ROGUE OF VOLGA HOLDS ZENOCRATE, 0013540THE SOLDAN'S DAUGHTER, FOR HIS CONCUBINE, 0013550AND WITH A TROOP OF THIEVES AND VAGABONDS, 0013560HATH SPREAD HIS COLOURS TO OUR HIGH DISGRACE, 0013570WHILE YOU, FAINT-HEARTED BASE EGYPTIANS, 0013580LIE SLUMBERING ON THE FLOWERY BANKS OF NILE, 0013590AS CROCODILES THAT UNAFFRIGHTED REST 0013600WHILE THUNDERING CANNONS RATTLE ON THEIR SKINS. 0013610NAY, MIGHTY SOLDAN, DID YOUR GREATNESS SEE 0013620THE FROWNING LOOKS OF FIERY TAMBURLAINE, 0013630THAT WITH HIS TERROR AND IMPERIOUS EYES 0013640COMMANDS THE HEARTS OF HIS ASSOCIATES, 0013650IT MIGHT AMAZE YOUR ROYAL MAJESTY. 0013660VILLAIN, I TELL THEE, WERE THAT TAMBURLAINE 0013670AS MONSTROUS AS GORGON, PRINCE OF HELL, 0013680THE SOLDAN WOULD NOT START A FOOT FROM HIM. 0013690BUT SPEAK, WHAT POWER HATH HE? 0013700MIGHTY LORD, 0013710THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN IN ARMOUR CLAD, 0013720UPON THEIR PRANCING STEEDS, DISDAINFULLY 0013730WITH WANTON PACES TRAMPLING ON THE GROUND; 0013740FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND FOOTMEN THREATENING SHOT, 0013750SHAKING THEIR SWORDS, THEIR SPEARS, AND IRON BILLS, 0013760ENVIRONING THEIR STANDARD ROUND, THAT STOOD 0013770AS BRISTLE-POINTED AS A THORNY WOOD; 0013780THEIR WARLIKE ENGINES AND MUNITION 0013790EXCEED THE FORCES OF THEIR MARTIAL MEN. 0013800NAY, COULD THEIR NUMBERS COUNTERVAIL THE STARS, 0013810OR EVER-DRIZZLING DROPS OF APRIL SHOWERS, 0013820OR WITHERED LEAVES THAT AUTUMN SHAKETH DOWN, 0013830YET WOULD THE SOLDAN BY HIS CONQUERING POWER 0013840SO SCATTER AND CONSUME THEM IN HIS RAGE, 0013850THAT NOT A MAN SHOULD LIVE TO RUE THEIR FALL. 0013860SO MIGHT YOUR HIGHNESS, HAD YOU TIME TO SORT 0013870YOUR FIGHTING MEN, AND RAISE YOUR ROYAL HOST, 0013880BUT TAMBURLAINE BY EXPEDITION 0013890ADVANTAGE TAKES OF YOUR UNREADINESS. 0013900LET HIM TAKE ALL THE ADVANTAGES HE CAN. 0013901WERE ALL THE WORLD CONSPIRED TO FIGHT FOR HIM, 0013910NAY, WERE HE DEVIL, AS HE IS NO MAN, 0013920YET IN REVENGE OF FAIR ZENOCRATE, 0013930WHOM HE DETAINETH IN DESPITE OF US, 0013940THIS ARM SHOULD SEND HIM DOWN TO EREBUS, 0013950TO SHROUD HIS SHAME IN DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT. 0013960PLEASETH YOUR MIGHTINESS TO UNDERSTAND, 0013970HIS RESOLUTION FAR EXDEEDETH ALL. 0013980THE FIRST DAY WHEN HE PITCHETH DOWN HIS TENTS, 0013990WHITE IS THEIR HUE, AND ON HIS SILVER CREST, 0014000A SNOWY FEATHER SPANGLED WHITE HE BEARS, 0014010TO SIGNIFY THE MILDNESS OF HIS MIND 0014020THAT, SATIATE WITH SPOIL, REFUSETH BLOOD; 0014030BUT WHEN AURORA MOUNTS THE SECOND TIME, 0014040AS RED AS SCARLET IS HIS FURNITURE; 0014050THEN MUST HIS KINDLED WRATH BE QUENCHED WITH BLOOD, 0014060NOT SPARING ANY THAT CAN MANAGE ARMS; 0014070BUT IF THESE THREATS MOVE NOT SUBMISSION, 0014080BLACK ARE HIS COLOURS, BLACK PAVILION; 0014090HIS SPEAR, HIS SHIELD, HIS HORSE, HIS ARMOUR, PLUMES, 0014100AND JETTY FEATHERS MENACE DEATH AND HELL; 0014110WITHOUT RESPECT OF SEX, DEGREE, OR AGE, 0014120HE RAZETH ALL HIS FOES WITH FIRE AND SWORD. 0014130MERCILESS VILLAIN, PEASANT IGNORANT 0014140OF LAWFUL ARMS OR MARTIAL DISCIPLINE! 0014150PILLAGE AND MURDER ARE HIS USUAL TRADES. 0014160THE SLAVE USURPS THE GLORIOUS NAME OF WAR. 0014170SEE CAPOLIN, THE FAIR ARABIAN KING, 0014180THAT HATH BEEN DISAPPOINTED BY THIS SLAVE 0014190OF MY FAIR DAUGHTER AND HIS PRINCELY LOVE, 0014200MAY HAVE FRESH WARNING TO GO WAR WITH US, 0014210AND BE REVENGED FOR HER DISPARAGEMENT. 0014220BRING OUT MY FOOTSTOOL. 0014230YE HOLY PRIESTS OF HEAVENLY MAHOMET, 0014240THAT, SACRIFICING, SLICE AND CUT YOUR FLESH, 0014250STAINING HIS ALTARS WITH YOUR PURPLE BLOOD, 0014260MAKE HEAVEN TO FROWN AND EVERY FIXED STAR 0014270TO SUCK UP POISON FROM THE MOORISH FENS, 0014280AND POUR IT IN THIS GLORIOUS TYRANT'S THROAT! 0014290THE CHIEFEST GOD, FIRST MOVER OF THAT SPHERE 0014291ENCHASED WITH THOUSANDS EVER-SHINING LAMPS, 0014300WILL SOONER BURN THE GLORIOUS FRAME OF HEAVEN 0014310THAN IT SHOULD SO CONSPIRE MY OVERTHROW. 0014320BUT, VILLAIN, THOU THAT WISHEST THIS TO ME, 0014330FALL PROSTRATE ON THE LOW DISDAINFUL EARTH, 0014340AND BE THE FOOTSTOOL OF GREAT TAMBURLAINE, 0014350THAT I MAY RISE INTO MY ROYAL THRONE. 0014360FIRST SHALT THOU RIP MY BOWELS WITH THY SWORD 0014370AND SACRIFICE MY HEART TO DEATH AND HELL, 0014380BEFORE I YIELD TO SUCH A SLAVERY. 0014390BASE VILLAIN, VASSAL, SLAVE TO TAMBURLAINE, 0014400UNWORTHY TO EMBRACE OR TOUCH THE GROUND 0014410THAT BEARS THE HONOUR OF MY ROYAL WEIGHT, 0014420STOOP, VILLAIN, STOOP! STOOP, FOR SO HE BIDS 0014430THAT MAY COMMAND THEE PIECEMEAL TO BE TORN, 0014440OR SCATTERED LIKE THE LOFTY CEDAR TREES 0014450STROOK WITH THE VOICE OF THUNDERING JUPITER. 0014460THEN, AS I LOOK DOWN TO THE DAMNED FIENDS, 0014470FIENDS, LOOK ON ME; AND THOU, DREAD GOD OF HELL, 0014480WITH EBON SCEPTRE STRIKE THIS HATEFUL EARTH, 0014490AND MAKE IT SWALLOW BOTH OF US AT ONCE! 0014510NOW CLEAR THE TRIPLE REGION OF THE AIR, 0014520AND LET THE MAJESTY OF HEAVEN BEHOLD 0014530THEIR SCOURGE AND TERROR TREAD ON EMPERORS. 0014540SMILE STARS THAT REIGNED AT MY NATIVITY, 0014550AND DIM THE BRIGHTNESS OF THEIR NEIGHBOUR LAMPS; 0014560DISDAIN TO BORROW LIGHT OF CYNTHIA, 0014570FOR I, THE CHIEFEST LAMP OF ALL THE EARTH, 0014580FIRST RISING IN THE EAST WITH MILD ASPECT, 0014590BUT FIXED NOW IN THE MERIDIAN LINE, 0014600WILL SEND UP FIRE TO YOUR TURNING SPHERES 0014610AND CAUSE THE SUN TO BORROW LIGHT OF YOU. 0014620MY SWORD STRUCK FIRE FROM HIS COAT OF STEEL, 0014630EVEN IN BITHYNIA, WHEN I TOOK THIS TURK, 0014640AS WHEN A FIERY EXHALATION, 0014650WRAPPED IN THE BOWELS OF A FREEZING CLOUD, 0014660FIGHTING FOR PASSAGE, MAKES THE WELKIN CRACK 0014670AND CASTS A FLASH OF LIGHTNING TO THE EARTH. 0014680BUT ERE I MARCH TO WEALTHY PERSIA, 0014690OR LEAVE DAMASCUS AND THE EGYPTIAN FIELDS, 0014700AS WAS THE FAME OF CLYMENE'S BRAINSICK SON 0014710THAT ALMOST BRENT THE AXLETREE OF HEAVEN, 0014720SO SHALL OUR SWORDS, OUR LANCES, AND OUR SHOT 0014721FILL ALL THE AIR WITH FIERY METEORS; 0014730THEN, WHEN THE SKY SHALL WAX AS RED AS BLOOD, 0014740IT SHALL BE SAID I MADE IT RED MYSELF, 0014750TO MAKE ME THINK OF NOUGHT BUT BLOOD AND WAR. 0014760UNWORTHY KING, THAT BY THY CRUELTY 0014770UNLAWFULLY USURPEST THE PERSIAN SEAT, 0014780DAREST THOU, THAT NEVER SAW AN EMPEROR 0014790BEFORE THOU MET MY HUSBAND IN THE FIELD, 0014800BEING THY CAPTIVE, THUS ABUSE HIS STATE, 0014810KEEPING HIS KINGLY BODY IN A CAGE, 0014820THAT ROOFS OF GOLD AND SUN-BRIGHT PALACES 0014830SHOULD HAVE PREPARED TO ENTERTAIN HIS GRACE? 0014840AND TREADING HIM BENEATH THY LOATHSOME FEET, 0014850WHOSE FEET THE KINGS OF AFRICA HAVE KISSED? 0014860YOU MUST DEVISE SOME TORMENT WORSE, MY LORD 0014870TO MAKE THESE CAPTIVES REIN THEIR LAVISH TONGUES. 0014880ZENOCRATE, LOOK BETTER TO YOUR SLAVE. 0014890SHE IS MY HANDMAID'S SLAVE, AND SHE SHALL LOOK 0014900THAT THESE ABUSES FLOW NOT FROM HER TONGUE. 0014910CHIDE HER, ANIPPE. 0014920LET THESE BE WARNINGS FOR YOU THEN, MY SLAVE, 0014930HOW YOU ABUSE THE PERSON OF THE KING; 0014940OR ELSE I SWEAR TO HAVE YOU WHIPPED STARK NAKED. 0014950GREAT TAMBURLAINE, GREAT IN MY OVERTHROW, 0014960AMBITIOUS PRIDE SHALL MAKE THEE FALL AS LOW, 0014970FOR TREADING ON THE BACK OF BAJAZETH, 0014980THAT SHOULD BE HORSED ON FOUR MIGHTY KINGS. 0014990THY NAMES AND TITLES AND THY DIGNITIES 0015000ARE FLED FROM BAJAZETH AND REMAIN WITH ME, 0015010THAT WILL MAINTAIN IT AGAINST A WORLD OF KINGS. 0015020PUT HIM IN AGAIN. 0015030IS THIS A PLACE FOR MIGHTY BAJAZETH? 0015040CONFUSION LIGHT ON HIM THAT HELPS THEE THUS. 0015050THERE, WHILE HE LIVES, SHALL BAJAZETH BE KEPT, 0015060AND WHERE I GO BE THUS IN TRIUMPH DRAWN; 0015070AND THOU, HIS WIFE, SHALT FEED HIM WITH THE SCRAPS 0015080MY SERVITORS SHALL BRING THEE FROM MY BOARD, 0015090FOR HE THAT GIVES HIM OTHER FOOD THAN THIS 0015100SHALL SIT BY HIM AND STARVE TO DEATH HIMSELF. 0015110THIS IS MY MIND, AND I WILL HAVE IT SO. 0015120NOT ALL THE KINGS AND EMPERORS OF THE EARTH, 0015130IF THEY WOULD LAY THEIR CROWNS BEFORE MY FEET, 0015140SHALL RANSOM HIM OR TAKE HIM FROM HIS CAGE. 0015150THE AGES THAT SHALL TALK OF TAMBURLAINE, 0015151EVEN FROM THIS DAY TO PLATO'S WONDROUS YEAR, 0015160SHALL TALK HOW I HAVE HANDLED BAJAZETH. 0015170THESE MOORS, THAT DREW HIM FROM BITHYNIA 0015180TO FAIR DAMASCUS, WHERE WE NOW REMAIN, 0015190SHALL LEAD HIM WITH US WHERESOEVER WE GO. 0015200TECHELLES, AND MY LOVING FOLLOWERS, 0015210NOW MAY WE SEE DAMASCUS' LOFTY TOWERS, 0015220LIKE TO THE SHADOWS OF PYRAMIDES 0015230THAT WITH THEIR BEAUTIES GRACED THE MEMPHIAN FIELDS. 0015240THE GOLDEN STATURE OF THEIR FEATHERED BIRD, 0015250THAT SPREADS HER WINGS UPON THE CITY WALLS, 0015260SHALL NOT DEFEND IT FROM OUR BATTERING SHOT. 0015270THE TOWNSMEN MASK IN SILK AND CLOTH OF GOLD, 0015280AND EVERY HOUSE IS AS A TREASURY; 0015290THE MEN, THE TREASURE, AND THE TOWN IS OURS. 0015300YOUR TENTS OF WHITE NOW PITCHED BEFORE THE GATES, 0015310AND GENTLE FLAGS OF AMITY DISPLAYED, 0015320I DOUBT NOT BUT THE GOVERNOR WILL YIELD, 0015330OFFERING DAMASCUS TO YOUR MAJESTY. 0015340SO SHALL HE HAVE HIS LIFE, AND ALL THE REST. 0015350BUT IF HE STAY UNTIL THE BLOODY FLAG 0015360BE ONCE ADVANCED ON MY VERMILION TENT, 0015370HE DIES, AND THOSE THAT KEPT US OUT SO LONG. 0015380AND WHEN THEY SEE ME MARCH IN BLACK ARRAY, 0015390WITH MOURNFUL STREAMERS HANGING DOWN THEIR HEADS, 0015400WERE IN THAT CITY ALL THE WORLD CONTAINED, 0015410NOT ONE SHOULD ESCAPE, BUT PERISH BY OUR SWORDS. 0015420YET WOULD YOU HAVE SOME PITY FOR MY SAKE, 0015430BECAUSE IT IS MY COUNTRY'S AND MY FATHER'S. 0015440NOT FOR THE WORLD, ZENOCRATE, IF I HAVE SWORN. 0015450COME, BRING IN THE TURK. 0015460METHINKS WE MARCH AS MELEAGER DID, 0015470ENVIRONED WITH BRAVE ARGOLIAN KNIGHTS, 0015480TO CHASE THE SAVAGE CALYDONIAN BOAR, 0015490OR CEPHALUS, WITH LUSTY THEBAN YOUTHS, 0015500AGAINST THE WOLF THAT ANGRY THEMIS SENT 0015510TO WASTE AND SPOIL THE SWEET AONIAN FIELDS. 0015520A MONSTER OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND HEADS, 0015530COMPACT OF RAPINE, PIRACY, AND SPOIL, 0015540THE SCUM OF MEN, THE HATE AND SCOURGE OF GOD, 0015550RAVES IN EGYPTIA, AND ANNOYETH US. 0015560MY LORD, IT IS THE BLOODY TAMBURLAINE, 0015561A STURDY FELON AND A BASE-BRED THIEF 0015570BY MURDER RAISED TO THE PERSIAN CROWN, 0015580THAT DARES CONTROL US IN OUR TERRITORIES. 0015590TO TAME THE PRIDE OF THIS PRESUMPTUOUS BEAST, 0015600JOIN YOUR ARABIANS WITH THE SOLDAN'S POWER; 0015610LET US UNITE OUR ROYAL BANDS IN ONE 0015620AND HASTEN TO REMOVE DAMASCUS' SIEGE. 0015630IT IS A BLEMISH TO THE MAJESTY 0015640AND HIGH ESTATE OF MIGHTY EMPERORS, 0015650THAT SUCH A BASE USURPING VAGABOND 0015660SHOULD BRAVE A KING, OR WEAR A PRINCELY CROWN. 0015670RENOWNED SOLDAN, HAVE YE LATELY HEARD 0015680THE OVERTHROW OF MIGHTY BAJAZETH 0015690ABOUT THE CONFINES OF BITHYNIA? 0015700THE SLAVERY WHEREWITH HE PERSECUTES 0015710THE NOBLE TURK AND HIS GREAT EMPERESS? 0015720I HAVE, AND SORROW FOR HIS BAD SUCCESS. 0015730BUT, NOBLE LORD OF GREAT ARABIA, 0015740BE SO PERSUADED THAT THE SOLDAN IS 0015750NO MORE DISMAYED WITH TIDINGS OF HIS FALL, 0015760THAN IN THE HAVEN WHEN THE PILOT STANDS, 0015770AND VIEWS A STRANGER'S SHIP RENT IN THE WINDS 0015780AND SHIVERED AGAINST A CRAGGY ROCK. 0015790YET IN COMPASSION TO HIS WRETCHED STATE, 0015800A SACRED VOW TO HEAVEN AND HIM I MAKE, 0015810CONFIRMING IT WITH IBIS' HOLY NAME, 0015820THAT TAMBURLAINE SHALL RUE THE DAY, THE HOUR, 0015830WHEREIN HE WROUGHT SUCH IGNOMINIOUS WRONG 0015840UNTO THE HALLOWED PERSON OF A PRINCE, 0015850OR KEPT THE FAIR ZENOCRATE SO LONG, 0015860AS CONCUBINE, I FEAR, TO FEED HIS LUST. 0015870LET GRIEF AND FURY HASTEN ON REVENGE. 0015880LET TAMBURLAINE FOR HIS OFFENCES FEEL 0015890SUCH PLAGUES AS HEAVEN AND WE CAN POUR ON HIM. 0015900I LONG TO BREAK MY SPEAR UPON HIS CREST 0015910AND PROVE THE WEIGHT OF HIS VICTORIOUS ARM; 0015920FOR FAME, I FEAR, HATH BEEN TOO PRODIGAL 0015930IN SOUNDING THROUGH THE WORLD HIS PARTIAL PRAISE. 0015940CAPOLIN, HAST THOU SURVEYED OUR POWERS? 0015950GREAT EMPERORS OF EGYPT AND ARABIA, 0015960THE NUMBER OF YOUR HOSTS UNITED IS 0015970A HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND HORSE, 0015980TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND FOOT, BRAVE MEN-AT-ARMS, 0015990COURAGEOUS AND FULL OF HARDINESS, 0016000AS FROLIC AS THE HUNTERS IN THE CHASE 0016010OF SAVAGE BEASTS AMID THE DESERT WOODS. 0016020MY MIND PRESAGETH FORTUNATE SUCCESS, 0016021AND TAMBURLAINE, MY SPIRIT DOTH FORESEE 0016030THE UTTER RUIN OF THY MEN AND THEE. 0016040THEN REAR YOUR STANDARDS; LET YOUR SOUNDING DRUMS 0016050DIRECT OUR SOLDIERS TO DAMASCUS' WALLS. 0016060NOW, TAMBURLAINE, THE MIGHTY SOLDAN COMES 0016070AND LEADS WITH HIM THE GREAT ARABIAN KING 0016080TO DIM THY BASENESS AND OBSCURITY, 0016090FAMOUS FOR NOTHING BUT FOR THEFT AND SPOIL; 0016100TO RAZE AND SCATTER THY INGLORIOUS CREW 0016110OF SCYTHIANS AND SLAVISH PERSIANS. 0016120NOW HANG OUR BLOODY COLOURS BY DAMASCUS, 0016130REFLEXING HUES OF BLOOD UPON THEIR HEADS, 0016140WHILE THEY WALK QUIVERING ON THEIR CITY WALLS, 0016150HALF DEAD FOR FEAR BEFORE THEY FEEL MY WRATH. 0016160THEN LET US FREELY BANQUET AND CAROUSE 0016170FULL BOWLS OF WINE UNTO THE GOD OF WAR, 0016180THAT MEANS TO FILL YOUR HELMETS FULL OF GOLD, 0016190AND MAKE DAMASCUS' SPOILS AS RICH TO YOU 0016200AS WAS TO JASON COLCHOS' GOLDEN FLEECE. 0016210AND NOW, BAJAZETH, HAST THOU ANY STOMACH? 0016220AY, SUCH A STOMACH, (CRUEL TAMBURLAINE), AS I COULD 0016230WILLINGLY FEED UPON THY BLOOD-RAW HEART. 0016240NAY, THINE OWN IS EASIER TO COME BY. 0016250PLUCK OUT THAT, 0016260AND IT WILL SERVE THEE AND THY WIFE. WELL, ZENOCRATE, 0016270TECHELLES, AND THE REST, FALL TO YOUR VICTUALS. 0016280FALL TO, AND NEVER MAY YOUR MEAT DIGEST! 0016290YE FURIES, THAT CAN MASK INVISIBLE, 0016300DIVE TO THE BOTTOM OF AVERNUS' POOL, 0016310AND IN YOUR HANDS BRING HELLISH POISON UP, 0016320AND SQUEEZE IT IN THE CUP OF TAMBURLAINE! 0016330OR, WINGED SNAKES OF LERNA, CAST YOUR STINGS, 0016340AND LEAVE YOUR VENOMS IN THIS TYRANT'S DISH! 0016350AND MAY THIS BANQUET PROVE AS OMINOUS 0016360AS PROGNE'S TO THE ADULTEROUS THRACIAN KING 0016370THAT FED UPON THE SUBSTANCE OF HIS CHILD. 0016380MY LORD, HOW CAN YOU SUFFER THESE 0016390OUTRAGEOUS CURSES BY THESE SLAVES OF YOURS? 0016400TO LET THEM SEE, (DIVINE ZENOCRATE), 0016401I GLORY IN THE CURSES OF MY FOES, 0016410HAVING THE POWER FROM THE EMPYREAL HEAVEN 0016420TO TURN THEM ALL UPON THEIR PROPER HEADS. 0016430I PRAY YOU, GIVE THEM LEAVE, MADAM; THIS SPEECH IS 0016440A GOODLY REFRESHING TO THEM. 0016450BUT, IF HIS HIGHNESS WOULD LET THEM BE FED, IT 0016460WOULD DO THEM MORE GOOD. 0016470SIRRAH, WHY FALL YOU NOT TO? ARE YOU SO DAINTILY 0016480BROUGHT UP, YOU CANNOT EAT YOU OWN FLESH? 0016490FIRST, LEGIONS OF DEVILS SHALL TEAR THEE IN PIECES. 0016500VILLAIN, KNOWEST THOU TO WHOM THOU SPEAKEST? 0016510O, LET HIM ALONE. HERE; EAT, SIR; TAKE IT FROM 0016520MY SWORD'S POINT, OR I WILL THRUST IT TO THY HEART. 0016530HE STAMPS IT UNDER HIS FEET, MY LORD. 0016540TAKE IT UP, VILLAIN, AND EAT IT; OR I WILL MAKE 0016550THEE SLICE THE BRAWNS OF THY ARMS INTO CARBONADOES AND 0016560EAT THEM. 0016570NAY, IT WERE BETTER HE KILLED HIS WIFE, AND THEN 0016580SHE SHALL BE SURE NOT TO BE STARVED, AND HE BE 0016590PROVIDED FOR A MONTH'S VICTUAL BEFOREHAND. 0016600HERE IS MY DAGGER. DISPATCH HER WHILE SHE IS FAT, 0016610FOR IF SHE LIVE BUT AWHILE LONGER, SHE WILL FALL INTO 0016620A CONSUMPTION WITH FRETTING, AND THEN SHE WILL NOT BE 0016630WORTH THE EATING. 0016640DOST THOU THINK THAT MAHOMET WILL SUFFER THIS? 0016650IT IS LIKE HE WILL, WHEN HE CANNOT LET IT. 0016660GO TO; FALL TO YOUR MEAT. WHAT, NOT A BIT? 0016670BELIKE HE HATH NOT BEEN WATERED TODAY: GIVE HIM SOME 0016680DRINK. 0016700FAST, AND WELCOME, SIR, WHILE HUNGER MAKE YOU EAT. 0016710HOW NOW, ZENOCRATE, DOTH NOT THE TURK AND HIS WIFE 0016720MAKE A GOODLY SHOW AT A BANQUET? 0016730YES, MY LORD. 0016740METHINKS IT IS A GREAT DEAL BETTER THAN A 0016750CONSORT OF MUSIC. 0016760YET MUSIC WOULD DO WELL TO CHEER UP ZENOCRATE. 0016770PRAY THEE TELL, WHY ART THOU SO SAD? IF THOU WILT 0016780HAVE A SONG, THE TURK SHALL STRAIN HIS VOICE. 0016781BUT WHY IS IT? 0016790MY LORD, TO SEE MY FATHER'S TOWN BESIEGED, 0016800THE COUNTRY WASTED, WHERE MYSELF WAS BORN, 0016810HOW CAN IT BUT AFFLICT MY VERY SOUL? 0016820IF ANY LOVE REMAIN IN YOU, MY LORD, 0016830OR IF MY LOVE UNTO YOUR MAJESTY 0016840MAY MERIT FAVOUR AT YOUR HIGHNESS' HANDS, 0016850THEN RAISE YOUR SIEGE FROM FAIR DAMASCUS' WALLS, 0016860AND WITH MY FATHER TAKE A FRIENDLY TRUCE. 0016870ZENOCRATE, WERE EGYPT JOVE'S OWN LAND, 0016880YET WOULD I WITH MY SWORD MAKE JOVE TO STOOP. 0016890I WILL CONFUTE THOSE BLIND GEOGRAPHERS 0016900THAT MAKE A TRIPLE REGION IN THE WORLD, 0016910EXCLUDING REGIONS WHICH I MEAN TO TRACE, 0016920AND WITH THIS PEN REDUCE THEM TO A MAP, 0016930CALLING THE PROVINCES, CITIES, AND TOWNS, 0016940AFTER MY NAME AND THINE, ZENOCRATE. 0016950HERE AT DAMASCUS WILL I MAKE THE POINT 0016960THAT SHALL BEGIN THE PERPENDICULAR. 0016970AND WOULDST THOU HAVE ME BUY THY FATHER'S LOVE 0016980WITH SUCH A LOSS? TELL ME, ZENOCRATE. 0016990HONOUR STILL WAIT ON HAPPY TAMBURLAINE; 0017000YET GIVE ME LEAVE TO PLEAD FOR HIM, MY LORD. 0017010CONTENT THYSELF: HIS PERSON SHALL BE SAFE, 0017020AND ALL THE FRIENDS OF FAIR ZENOCRATE, 0017030IF WITH THEIR LIVES THEY WILL BE PLEASED TO YIELD, 0017040OR MAY BE FORCED TO MAKE ME EMPEROR; 0017050FOR EGYPT AND ARABIA MUST BE MINE. 0017060FEED, YOU SLAVE; THOU MAYST THINK THYSELF HAPPY TO BE 0017070FED FROM MY TRENCHER. 0017080MY EMPTY STOMACH, FULL OF IDLE HEAT, 0017090DRAWS BLOODY HUMOURS FROM MY FEEBLE PARTS, 0017100PRESERVING LIFE BY HASTING CRUEL DEATH. 0017110MY VEINS ARE PALE, MY SINEWS HARD AND DRY, 0017120MY JOINTS BENUMBED; UNLESS I EAT, I DIE. 0017130EAT, BAJAZETH. LET US LIVE IN SPITE OF THEM, 0017140LOOKING SOME HAPPY POWER WILL PITY AND ENLARGE US. 0017150HERE, TURK; WILT THOU HAVE A CLEAN TRENCHER? 0017160AY, TYRANT, AND MORE MEAT. 0017170SOFT, SIR, YOU MUST BE DIETED; TOO MUCH EATING 0017180WILL MAKE YOU SURFEIT. 0017190SO IT WOULD, MY LORD, ESPECIALLY HAVING SO SMALL A 0017200WALK AND SO LITTLE EXERCISE. 0017201THERIDAMAS, TECHELLES, AND CASANE, HERE ARE THE 0017210CATES YOU DESIRE TO FINGER, ARE THEY NOT? 0017220AY, MY LORD, BUT NONE SAVE KINGS MUST FEED 0017230WITH THESE. 0017240IT IS ENOUGH FOR US TO SEE THEM, AND FOR TAMBURLAINE 0017250ONLY TO ENJOY THEM. 0017260WELL, HERE IS NOW TO THE SOLDAN OF EGYPT, THE 0017270KING OF ARABIA, AND THE GOVERNOR OF DAMASCUS. NOW, 0017280TAKE THESE THREE CROWNS, AND PLEDGE ME, MY CONTRIBUTORY 0017290KINGS. I CROWN YOU HERE, THERIDAMAS, KING OF 0017300ARGIER; TECHELLES, KING OF FEZ; AND USUMCASANE, KING 0017310OF MOROCCO. HOW SAY YOU TO THIS, TURK? THESE ARE NOT 0017320YOUR CONTRIBUTORY KINGS. 0017330NOR SHALL THEY LONG BE THINE, I WARRANT THEM. 0017340KINGS OF ARGIER, MOROCCO, AND OF FEZ, 0017350YOU THAT HAVE MARCHED WITH HAPPY TAMBURLAINE 0017360AS FAR AS FROM THE FROZEN PLACE OF HEAVEN 0017370UNTO THE WATERY MORNING'S RUDDY BOWER, 0017380AND THENCE BY LAND UNTO THE TORRID ZONE, 0017390DESERVE THESE TITLES I ENDOW YOU WITH 0017400BY VALOUR AND BY MAGNANIMITY. 0017410YOUR BIRTHS SHALL BE NO BLEMISH TO YOUR FAME, 0017420FOR VIRTUE IS THE FOUNT WHENCE HONOUR SPRINGS, 0017430AND THEY ARE WORTHY SHE INVESTETH KINGS. 0017440AND, SINCE YOUR HIGHNESS HATH SO WELL VOUCHSAFED, 0017450IF WE DESERVE THEM NOT WITH HIGHER MEEDS 0017460THAN ERST OUR STATES AND ACTIONS HAVE RETAINED, 0017470TAKE THEM AWAY AGAIN, AND MAKE US SLAVES. 0017480WELL SAID, THERIDAMAS. WHEN HOLY FATES 0017490SHALL ESTABLISH ME IN STRONG EGYPTIA, 0017500WE MEAN TO TRAVEL TO THE ANTARCTIC POLE, 0017510CONQUERING THE PEOPLE UNDERNEATH OUR FEET, 0017520AND BE RENOWNED AS NEVER EMPERORS WERE. 0017530ZENOCRATE, I WILL NOT CROWN THEE YET, 0017540UNTIL WITH GREATER HONOURS I BE GRACED. 0017550STILL DOTH THIS MAN, OR RATHER GOD OF WAR, 0017560BATTER OUR WALLS AND BEAT OUR TURRETS DOWN; 0017570AND TO RESIST WITH LONGER STUBBORNNESS 0017571OR HOPE OF RESCUE FROM THE SOLDEN'S POWER 0017580WERE BUT TO BRING OUR WILFUL OVERTHROW, 0017590AND MAKE US DESPERATE OF OUR THREATENED LIVES. 0017600WE SEE HIS TENTS HAVE NOW BEEN ALTERED 0017610WITH TERRORS TO THE LAST AND CRUELLEST HUE. 0017620HIS COAL-BLACK COLOURS, EVERYWHERE ADVANCED, 0017630THREATEN OUR CITY WITH A GENERAL SPOIL; 0017640AND IF WE SHOULD WITH COMMON RITES OF ARMS 0017650OFFER OUR SAFETIES TO HIS CLEMENCY, 0017660I FEAR THE CUSTOM PROPER TO HIS SWORD. 0017670WHICH HE OBSERVES AS PARCEL OF HIS FAME, 0017680INTENDING SO TO TERRIFY THE WORLD, 0017690BY ANY INNOVATION OR REMORSE 0017700WILL NEVER BE DISPENSED WITH TILL OUR DEATHS. 0017710THEREFORE, FOR THESE OUR HARMLESS VIRGINS' SAKES, 0017720WHOSE HONOURS AND WHOSE LIVES RELY ON HIM, 0017730LET US HAVE HOPE THAT THEIR UNSPOTTED PRAYERS, 0017740THEIR BLUBBERED CHEEKS, AND HEARTY HUMBLE MOANS 0017750WILL MELT HIS FURY INTO SOME REMORSE, 0017760AND USE US LIKE A LOVING CONQUEROR. 0017770<1VIRG >IF HUMBLE SUITS OR IMPRECATIONS 0017780(UTTERED WITH TEARS OF WRETCHEDNESS AND BLOOD 0017790SHED FROM THE HEADS AND HEARTS OF ALL OUR SEX, 0017800SOME MADE YOUR WIVES, AND SOME YOUR CHILDREN,) 0017810MIGHT HAVE ENTREATED YOUR OBDURATE BREASTS 0017820TO ENTERTAIN SOME CARE OF OUR SECURITIES 0017830WHILES ONLY DANGER BEAT UPON OUR WALLS, 0017840THESE MORE THAN DANGEROUS WARRANTS OF OUR DEATH 0017850HAD NEVER BEEN ERECTED AS THEY BE, 0017860NOR YOU DEPEND ON SUCH WEAK HELPS AS WE. 0017870WELL, LOVELY VIRGINS, THINK OUR COUNTRY'S CARE, 0017880OUR LOVE OF HONOUR, LOATH TO BE ENTHRALLED 0017890TO FOREIGN POWERS AND ROUGH IMPERIOUS YOKES, 0017900WOULD NOT WITH TOO MUCH COWARDICE OR FEAR, 0017910BEFORE ALL HOPE OF RESCUE WERE DENIED, 0017920SUBMIT YOURSELVES AND US TO SERVITUDE. 0017930THEREFORE, IN THAT YOUR SAFETIES AND OUR OWN, 0017940YOUR HONOURS, LIBERTIES, AND LIVES WERE WEIGHED 0017950IN EQUAL CARE AND BALANCE WITH OUR OWN, 0017960ENDURE AS WE THE MALICE OF OUR STARS, 0017970THE WRATH OF TAMBURLAINE AND POWER OF WARS, 0017980OR BE THE MEANS THE OVERWEIGHING HEAVENS 0017990HAVE KEPT TO QUALIFY THESE HOT EXTREMES, 0018000AND BRING US PARDON IN YOUR CHEERFUL LOOKS. 0018010<2VIRG >THEN HERE, BEFORE THE MAJESTY OF HEAVEN 0018011AND HOLY PATRONS OF EGYPTIA, 0018020WITH KNEES AND HEARTS SUBMISSIVE WE ENTREAT 0018030GRACE TO OUR WORDS AND PITY TO OUR LOOKS 0018040THAT THIS DEVICE MAY PROVE PROPITIOUS, 0018050AND THROUGH THE EYES AND EARS OF TAMBURLAINE 0018060CONVEY EVENTS OF MERCY TO HIS HEART. 0018070GRANT THAT THESE SIGNS OF VICTORY WE YIELD 0018080MAY BIND THE TEMPLES OF HIS CONQUERING HEAD 0018090TO HIDE THE FOLDED FURROWS OF HIS BROWS, 0018100AND SHADOW HIS DISPLEASED COUNTENANCE 0018110WITH HAPPY LOOKS OF RUTH AND LENITY. 0018120LEAVE US, MY LORD, AND LOVING COUNTRYMEN. 0018130WHAT SIMPLE VIRGINS MAY PERSUADE, WE WILL. 0018140FAREWELL, SWEET VIRGINS, ON WHOSE SAFE RETURN 0018150DEPENDS OUR CITY, LIBERTY, AND LIVES. 0018160WHAT, ARE THE TURTLES FRAYED OUT OF THEIR NESTS? 0018170ALAS, POOR FOOLS, MUST YOU BE FIRST SHALL FEEL 0018180THE SWORN DESTRUCTION OF DAMASCUS? 0018190THEY KNOW MY CUSTOM; COULD THEY NOT AS WELL 0018200HAVE SENT YE OUT WHEN FIRST MY MILK-WHITE FLAGS, 0018210THROUGH WHICH SWEET MERCY THREW HER GENTLE BEAMS, 0018220REFLEXING THEM ON YOUR DISDAINFUL EYES, 0018230AS NOW WHEN FURY AND INCENSED HATE 0018240FLINGS SLAUGHTERING TERROR FROM MY COAL-BLACK TENTS, 0018250AND TELLS FOR TRUTH SUBMISSION COMES TOO LATE? 0018260<1VIRG >MOST HAPPY KING AND EMPEROR OF THE EARTH, 0018270IMAGE OF HONOUR AND NOBILITY, 0018280FOR WHOM THE POWERS DIVINE HAVE MADE THE WORLD 0018290AND ON WHOSE THRONE THE HOLY GRACES SIT, 0018300IN WHOSE SWEET PERSON IS COMPRISED THE SUM 0018310OF NATURE'S SKILL AND HEAVENLY MAJESTY, 0018320PITY OUR PLIGHTS! O, PITY POOR DAMASCUS! 0018330PITY OLD AGE, WITHIN WHOSE SILVER HAIRS 0018340HONOUR AND REVERENCE EVERMORE HAVE REIGNED. 0018350PITY THE MARRIAGE-BED, WHERE MANY A LORD, 0018360IN PRIME AND GLORY OF HIS LOVING JOY, 0018370EMBRACETH NOW WITH TEARS OF RUTH AND BLOOD 0018380THE JEALOUS BODY OF HIS FEARFUL WIFE, 0018390WHOSE CHEEKS AND HEARTS, SO PUNISHED WITH CONCEIT 0018391TO THINK THY PUISSANT NEVER-STAYED ARM 0018400WILL PART THEIR BODIES AND PREVENT THEIR SOULS 0018410FROM HEAVENS OF COMFORT YET THEIR AGE MIGHT BEAR, 0018420NOW WAX ALL PALE AND WITHERED TO THE DEATH, 0018430AS WELL FOR GRIEF OUR RUTHLESS GOVERNOR 0018440HATH THUS REFUSED THE MERCY OF THY HAND, 0018450(WHOSE SCEPTRE ANGELS KISS AND FURIES DREAD,) 0018460AS FOR THEIR LIBERTIES, THEIR LOVES, OR LIVES. 0018470OH, THEN, FOR THESE, AND SUCH AS WE OURSELVES, 0018480FOR US, FOR INFANTS, AND FOR ALL OUR BLOODS, 0018490THAT NEVER NOURISHED THOUGHT AGAINST THY RULE, 0018500PITY, O PITY, (SACRED EMPEROR,) 0018510THE PROSTRATE SERVICE OF THIS WRETCHED TOWN; 0018520AND TAKE IN SIGN THEREOF THIS GILDED WREATH, 0018530WHERETO EACH MAN OF RULE HATH GIVEN HIS HAND, 0018540AND WISHED, AS WORTHY SUBJECTS, HAPPY MEANS 0018550TO BE INVESTERS OF THY ROYAL BROWS 0018560EVEN WITH THE TRUE EGYPTIAN DIADEM. 0018570VIRGINS, IN VAIN YOU LABOUR TO PREVENT 0018580THAT WHICH MINE HONOUR SWEARS SHALL BE PERFORMED. 0018590BEHOLD MY SWORD; WHAT SEE YOU AT THE POINT? 0018600<1VIRG >NOTHING BUT FEAR AND FATAL STEEL, MY LORD. 0018610YOUR FEARFUL MINDS ARE THICK AND MISTY THEN, 0018620FOR THERE SITS DEATH; THERE SITS IMPERIOUS DEATH, 0018630KEEPING HIS CIRCUIT BY THE SLICING EDGE. 0018640BUT I AM PLEASED YOU SHALL NOT SEE HIM THERE. 0018650HE NOW IS SEATED ON MY HORSEMEN'S SPEARS, 0018660AND ON THEIR POINTS HIS FLESHLESS BODY FEEDS. 0018670TECHELLES, STRAIGHT GO CHARGE A FEW OF THEM 0018680TO CHARGE THESE DAMES AND SHOW MY SERVANT, DEATH, 0018690SITTING IN SCARLET ON THEIR ARMED SPEARS. 0018700O, PITY US! 0018710AWAY WITH THEM, I SAY, AND SHOW THEM DEATH. 0018720I WILL NOT SPARE THESE PROUD EGYPTIANS, 0018730NOR CHANGE MY MARTIAL OBSERVATIONS 0018740FOR ALL THE WEALTH OF GIHON'S GOLDEN WAVES. 0018750OR FOR THE LOVE OF VENUS, WOULD SHE LEAVE 0018760THE ANGRY GOD OF ARMS AND LIE WITH ME. 0018770THEY HAVE REFUSED THE OFFER OF THEIR LIVES 0018780AND KNOW MY CUSTOMS ARE AS PEREMPTORY 0018790AS WRATHFUL PLANETS, DEATH, OR DESTINY. 0018800WHAT, HAVE YOUR HORSEMEN SHOWN THE VIRGINS DEATH? 0018801THEY HAVE, MY LORD, AND ON DAMASCUS' WALLS 0018810HAVE HOISTED UP THEIR SLAUGHTERED CARCASSES. 0018820A SIGHT AS BANEFUL TO THEIR SOULS, I THINK, 0018830AS ARE THESSALIAN DRUGS OR MITHRIDATE: 0018840BUT GO, MY LORDS, PUT THE REST TO THE SWORD. 0018860AH, FAIR ZENOCRATE! DIVINE ZENOCRATE! 0018870FAIR IS TOO FOUL AN EPITHET FOR THEE, 0018880THAT IN THY PASSION FOR THY COUNTRY'S LOVE, 0018890AND FEAR TO SEE THY KINGLY FATHER'S HARM, 0018900WITH HAIR DISHEVELLED WIPEST THY WATERY CHEEKS; 0018910AND, LIKE TO FLORA IN HER MORNING'S PRIDE, 0018920SHAKING HER SILVER TRESSES IN THE AIR, 0018930RAINEST ON THE EARTH RESOLVED PEARL IN SHOWERS, 0018940AND SPRINKLEST SAPPHIRES ON THY SHINING FACE, 0018950WHERE BEAUTY, MOTHER TO THE MUSES, SITS, 0018960AND COMMENTS VOLUMES WITH HER IVORY PEN, 0018970TAKING INSTRUCTIONS FROM THY FLOWING EYES, 0018980EYES, WHEN THAT EBENA STEPS TO HEAVEN, 0018990IN SILENCE OF THY SOLEMN EVENING'S WALK, 0019000MAKING THE MANTLE OF THE RICHEST NIGHT, 0019010THE MOON, THE PLANETS, AND THE METEORS, LIGHT. 0019020THERE ANGELS IN THEIR CRYSTAL ARMOURS FIGHT 0019030A DOUBTFUL BATTLE WITH MY TEMPTED THOUGHTS 0019040FOR EGYPT'S FREEDOM AND THE SOLDAN'S LIFE, 0019050HIS LIFE THAT SO CONSUMES ZENOCRATE, 0019060WHOSE SORROWS LAY MORE SIEGE UNTO MY SOUL 0019070THAN ALL MY ARMY TO DAMASCUS' WALLS; 0019080AND NEITHER PERSIANS' SOVEREIGN NOR THE TURK 0019090TROUBLED MY SENSES WITH CONCEIT OF FOIL 0019100SO MUCH BY MUCH AS DOTH ZENOCRATE. 0019110WHAT IS BEAUTY, SAITH MY SUFFERINGS, THEN? 0019120IF ALL THE PENS THAT EVER POETS HELD 0019130HAD FED THE FEELING OF THEIR MASTERS' THOUGHTS, 0019140AND EVERY SWEETNESS THAT INSPIRED THEIR HEARTS, 0019150THEIR MINDS, AND MUSES ON ADMIRED THEMES; 0019160IF ALL THE HEAVENLY QUINTESSENCE THEY STILL 0019170FROM THEIR IMMORTAL FLOWERS OF POESY, 0019180WHEREIN, AS IN A MIRROR, WE PERCEIVE 0019190THE HIGHEST REACHES OF A HUMAN WIT; 0019200IF THESE HAD MADE ONE POEM'S PERIOD, 0019210AND ALL COMBINED IN BEAUTY'S WORTHINESS, 0019220YET SHOULD THERE HOVER IN THEIR RESTLESS HEADS 0019230ONE THOUGHT, ONE GRACE, ONE WONDER, AT THE LEAST, 0019240WHICH INTO WORDS NO VIRTUE CAN DIGEST. 0019241BUT HOW UNSEEMLY IS IT FOR MY SEX, 0019250MY DISCIPLINE OF ARMS AND CHIVALRY, 0019260MY NATURE, AND THE TERROR OF MY NAME, 0019270TO HARBOUR THOUGHTS EFFEMINATE AND FAINT! 0019280SAVE ONLY THAT IN BEAUTY'S JUST APPLAUSE, 0019290WITH WHOSE INSTINCT THE SOUL OF MAN IS TOUCHED; 0019300AND EVERY WARRIOR THAT IS RAPT WITH LOVE 0019310OF FAME, OF VALOUR, AND OF VICTORY, 0019320MUST NEEDS HAVE BEAUTY BEAT ON HIS CONCEITS. 0019330I THUS CONCEIVING AND SUBDUING BOTH, 0019340THAT WHICH HATH STOPPED THE TEMPEST OF THE GODS, 0019350EVEN FROM THE FIERY-SPANGLED VEIL OF HEAVEN, 0019360TO FEEL THE LOVELY WARMTH OF SHEPHERDS' FLAMES 0019370AND MARCH IN COTTAGES OF STROWED WEEDS, 0019380SHALL GIVE THE WORLD TO NOTE, FOR ALL MY BIRTH, 0019390THAT VIRTUE SOLELY IS THE SUM OF GLORY, 0019400AND FASHIONS MEN WITH TRUE NOBILITY. 0019410WHO IS WITHIN THERE? 0019420HATH BAJAZETH BEEN FED TODAY? 0019430AY, MY LORD. 0019440BRING HIM FORTH; AND LET US KNOW IF THE TOWN 0019450BE RANSACKED. 0019460THE TOWN IS OURS, MY LORD, AND FRESH SUPPLY 0019470OF CONQUEST AND OF SPOIL IS OFFERED US. 0019480THAT IS WELL, TECHELLES. WHAT IS THE NEWS? 0019490THE SOLDAN AND THE ARABIAN KING TOGETHER 0019500MARCH ON US WITH SUCH EAGER VIOLENCE 0019510AS IF THERE WERE NO WAY BUT ONE WITH US. 0019520NO MORE THERE IS NOT, I WARRANT THEE, TECHELLES. 0019530WE KNOW THE VICTORY IS OURS, MY LORD, 0019540BUT LET US SAVE THE REVEREND SOLDAN'S LIFE 0019550FOR FAIR ZENOCRATE THAT SO LAMENTS HIS STATE. 0019560THAT WILL WE CHIEFLY SEE UNTO, THERIDAMAS, 0019570FOR SWEET ZENOCRATE, WHOSE WORTHINESS 0019580DESERVES A CONQUEST OVER EVERY HEART. 0019590AND NOW, MY FOOTSTOOL, IF I LOSE THE FIELD, 0019600YOU HOPE OF LIBERTY AND RESTITUTION. 0019610HERE LET HIM STAY, MY MASTERS, FROM THE TENTS, 0019620TILL WE HAVE MADE US READY FOR THE FIELD. 0019630PRAY FOR US, BAJAZETH; WE ARE GOING. 0019640GO, NEVER TO RETURN WITH VICTORY! 0019641MILLIONS OF MEN ENCOMPASS THEE ABOUT 0019650AND GORE THY BODY WITH AS MANY WOUNDS! 0019660SHARP FORKED ARROWS LIGHT UPON THY HORSE! 0019670FURIES FROM THE BLACK COCYTUS LAKE, 0019680BREAK UP THE EARTH, AND WITH THEIR FIREBRANDS 0019690ENFORCE THEE RUN UPON THE BANEFUL PIKES! 0019700VOLLEYS OF SHOT PIERCE THROUGH THY CHARMED SKIN, 0019710AND EVERY BULLET DIPPED IN POISONED DRUGS! 0019720OR ROARING CANNONS SEVER ALL THY JOINTS, 0019730MAKING THEE MOUNT AS HIGH AS EAGLES SOAR! 0019740LET ALL THE SWORDS AND LANCES IN THE FIELD 0019750STICK IN HIS BREAST AS IN THEIR PROPER ROOMS! 0019760AT EVERY PORE LET BLOOD COME DROPPING FORTH, 0019770THAT LINGERING PAINS MAY MASSACRE HIS HEART 0019780AND MADNESS SEND HIS DAMNED SOUL TO HELL! 0019790AH, FAIR ZABINA! WE MAY CURSE HIS POWER, 0019800THE HEAVENS MAY FROWN, THE EARTH FOR ANGER QUAKE, 0019810BUT SUCH A STAR HATH INFLUENCE IN HIS SWORD 0019820AS RULES THE SKIES AND COUNTERMANDS THE GODS 0019830MORE THAN CIMMERIAN STYX OR DESTINY. 0019840AND THEN SHALL WE IN THIS DETESTED GUISE, 0019850WITH SHAME, WITH HUNGER, AND WITH HORROR - AY, 0019860GRIPPING OUR BOWELS WITH RETORQUED THOUGHTS 0019870AND HAVE NO HOPE TO END OUR ECSTASIES. 0019880THEN IS THERE LEFT NO MAHOMET, NO GOD, 0019890NO FIEND, NO FORTUNE, NOR NO HOPE OF END 0019900TO OUR INFAMOUS, MONSTROUS SLAVERIES? 0019910GAPE EARTH, AND LET THE FIENDS INFERNAL VIEW 0019920A HELL AS HOPELESS AND AS FULL OF FEAR 0019930AS ARE THE BLASTED BANKS OF EREBUS, 0019940WHERE SHAKING GHOSTS WITH EVER HOWLING GROANS 0019950HOVER ABOUT THE UGLY FERRYMAN 0019960TO GET A PASSAGE TO ELYSIUM! 0019970WHY SHOULD WE LIVE? OH, WRETCHES, BEGGARS, SLAVES! 0019980WHY LIVE WE, BAJAZETH, AND BUILD UP NESTS 0019990SO HIGH WITHIN THE REGION OF THE AIR, 0020000BY LIVING LONG IN THIS OPPRESSION, 0020010THAT ALL THE WORLD WILL SEE AND LAUGH TO SCORN 0020020THE FORMER TRIUMPHS OF OUR MIGHTINESS 0020030IN THIS OBSCURE INFERNAL SERVITUDE? 0020040O LIFE, MORE LOATHSOME TO MY VEXED THOUGHTS 0020050THAN NOISOME PARBREAK OF THE STYGIAN SNAKES, 0020060WHICH FILLS THE NOOKS OF HELL WITH STANDING AIR, 0020070INFECTING ALL THE GHOSTS WITH CURELESS GRIEFS! 0020071O DREARY ENGINES OF MY LOATHED SIGHT, 0020080THAT SEES MY CROWN, MY HONOUR, AND MY NAME 0020090THRUST UNDER YOKE AND THRALDOM OF A THIEF, 0020100WHY FEED YE STILL ON DAY'S ACCURSED BEAMS, 0020110AND SINK NOT QUITE INTO MY TORTURED SOUL? 0020120YOU SEE MY WIFE, MY QUEEN, AND EMPERESS, 0020130BROUGHT UP AND PROPPED BY THE HAND OF FAME, 0020140QUEEN OF FIFTEEN CONTRIBUTORY QUEENS, 0020150NOW THROWN TO ROOMS OF BLACK ABJECTION, 0020160SMEARED WITH BLOTS OF BASEST DRUDGERY, 0020170AND VILLAINESS TO SHAME, DISDAIN, AND MISERY. 0020180ACCURSED BAJAZETH, WHOSE WORDS OF RUTH, 0020190THAT WOULD WITH PITY CHEER ZABINA'S HEART, 0020200AND MAKE OUR SOULS RESOLVE IN CEASELESS TEARS, 0020210SHARP HUNGER BITES UPON AND GRIPES THE ROOT 0020220FROM WHENCE THE ISSUE OF MY THOUGHTS DO BREAK. 0020230O POOR ZABINA! O MY QUEEN, MY QUEEN! 0020240FETCH ME SOME WATER FOR MY BURNING BREAST, 0020250TO COOL AND COMFORT ME WITH LONGER DATE, 0020260THAT IN THE SHORTENED SEQUEL OF MY LIFE 0020270I MAY POUR FORTH MY SOUL INTO THINE ARMS 0020280WITH WORDS OF LOVE WHOSE MOANING INTERCOURSE 0020290HATH HITHERTO BEEN STAYED WITH WRATH AND HATE 0020300OF OUR EXPRESSLESS BANNED INFLICTIONS. 0020310SWEET BAJAZETH, I WILL PROLONG THY LIFE 0020320AS LONG AS ANY BLOOD OR SPARK OF BREATH 0020330CAN QUENCH OR COOL THE TORMENTS OF MY GRIEF. 0020340NOW, BAJAZETH, ABRIDGE THY BANEFUL DAYS, 0020350AND BEAT THE BRAINS OUT OF THY CONQUERED HEAD, 0020360SINCE OTHER MEANS ARE ALL FORBIDDEN ME, 0020370THAT MAY BE MINISTERS OF MY DECAY. 0020380O HIGHEST LAMP OF EVER-LIVING JOVE, 0020390ACCURSED DAY, INFECTED WITH MY GRIEFS, 0020400HIDE NOW THY STAINED FACE IN ENDLESS NIGHT, 0020410AND SHUT THE WINDOWS OF THE LIGHTSOME HEAVENS. 0020420LET UGLY DARKNESS WITH HER RUSTY COACH 0020430ENGIRT WITH TEMPESTS, WRAPPED IN PITCHY CLOUDS, 0020440SMOTHER THE EARTH WITH NEVER-FADING MISTS, 0020450AND LET HER HORSES FROM THEIR NOSTRILS BREATHE 0020460REBELLIOUS WINDS AND DREADFUL THUNDER-CLAPS, 0020470THAT IN THIS TERROR TAMBURLAINE MAY LIVE, 0020480AND MY PINED SOUL, RESOLVED IN LIQUID AIR, 0020490MAY STILL EXCRUCIATE HIS TORMENTED THOUGHTS! 0020491THEN LET THE STONY DART OF SENSELESS COLD 0020500PIERCE THROUGH THE CENTRE OF MY WITHERED HEART, 0020510AND MAKE A PASSAGE FOR MY LOATHED LIFE! 0020520WHAT DO MINE EYES BEHOLD? MY HUSBAND DEAD! 0020530HIS SKULL ALL RIVEN IN TWAIN, HIS BRAINS DASHED OUT! 0020540THE BRAINS OF BAJAZETH, MY LORD AND SOVEREIGN! 0020550O BAJAZETH, MY HUSBAND AND MY LORD! 0020560O BAJAZETH! O TURK! O EMPEROR! 0020570GIVE HIM HIS LIQUOR? NOT I. BRING MILK AND FIRE, AND 0020580MY BLOOD I BRING HIM AGAIN. TEAR ME IN PIECES. GIVE 0020590ME THE SWORD WITH A BALL OF WILD-FIRE UPON IT. DOWN 0020600WITH HIM! DOWN WITH HIM! GO TO, MY CHILD. 0020610AWAY, AWAY, AWAY! AH, SAVE THAT INFANT! SAVE HIM, 0020620SAVE HIM! I, EVEN I, SPEAK TO HER. THE SUN WAS DOWN 0020630STREAMERS WHITE, RED, BLACK. HERE, HERE, HERE! FLING 0020640THE MEAT IN HIS FACE! TAMBURLAINE, TAMBURLAINE! 0020650LET THE SOLDIERS BE BURIED. HELL, DEATH, TAMBURLAINE, 0020660HELL! MAKE READY MY COACH, MY CHAIR, MY JEWELS. 0020670I COME, I COME, I COME! 0020680WRETCHED ZENOCRATE, THAT LIVEST TO SEE 0020690DAMASCUS' WALLS DYED WITH EGYPTIAN BLOOD, 0020700THY FATHER'S SUBJECTS AND THY COUNTRYMEN; 0020710THY STREETS STROWED WITH DISSEVERED JOINTS OF MEN, 0020720AND WOUNDED BODIES GASPING YET FOR LIFE; 0020730BUT MOST ACCURSED, TO SEE THE SUN-BRIGHT TROOP 0020740OF HEAVENLY VIRGINS AND UNSPOTTED MAIDS, 0020750(WHOSE LOOKS MIGHT MAKE THE ANGRY GOD OF ARMS 0020760TO BREAK HIS SWORD AND MILDLY TREAT OF LOVE) 0020770ON HORSEMEN'S LANCES TO BE HOISTED UP, 0020780AND GUILTLESSLY ENDURE A CRUEL DEATH. 0020790FOR EVERY FELL AND STOUT TARTARIAN STEED, 0020800THAT STAMPED ON OTHERS WITH THEIR THUNDERING HOOFS, 0020810WHEN ALL THEIR RIDERS CHARGED THEIR QUIVERING SPEARS, 0020820BEGAN TO CHECK THE GROUND AND REIN THEMSELVES, 0020830GAZING UPON THE BEAUTY OF THEIR LOOKS. 0020840AH, TAMBURLAINE, WERT THOU THE CAUSE OF THIS, 0020850THAT TERMEST ZENOCRATE THY DEAREST LOVE? 0020860WHOSE LIVES WERE DEARER TO ZENOCRATE 0020861THAN HER OWN LIFE, OR AUGHT SAVE THINE OWN LOVE? 0020870BUT SEE, ANOTHER BLOODY SPECTACLE! 0020880AH, WRETCHED EYES, THE ENEMIES OF MY HEART, 0020890HOW ARE YE GLUTTED WITH THESE GRIEVOUS OBJECTS, 0020900AND TELL MY SOUL MORE TALES OF BLEEDING RUTH! 0020910SEE, SEE, ANIPPE, IF THEY BREATHE OR NO. 0020920NO BREATH, NOR SENSE, NOR MOTION, IN THEM BOTH. 0020930AH, MADAM, THIS THEIR SLAVERY HATH ENFORCED, 0020940AND RUTHLESS CRUELTY OF TAMBURLAINE! 0020950EARTH, CAST UP FOUNTAINS FROM THY ENTRAILS, 0020960AND WET THY CHEEKS FOR THEIR UNTIMELY DEATHS. 0020970SHAKE WITH THEIR WEIGHT IN SIGN OF FEAR AND GRIEF. 0020980BLUSH, HEAVEN, THAT GAVE THEM HONOUR AT THEIR BIRTH 0020990AND LET THEM DIE A DEATH SO BARBAROUS. 0021000THOSE THAT ARE PROUD OF FICKLE EMPERY 0021010AND PLACE THEIR CHIEFEST GOOD IN EARTHLY POMP, 0021020BEHOLD THE TURK AND HIS GREAT EMPERESS! 0021030AH, TAMBURLAINE MY LOVE, SWEET TAMBURLAINE, 0021040THAT FIGHTS FOR SCEPTRES AND FOR SLIPPERY CROWNS, 0021050BEHOLD THE TURK AND HIS GREAT EMPERESS! 0021060THOU, THAT IN CONDUCT OF THY HAPPY STARS, 0021070SLEEPEST EVERY NIGHT WITH CONQUEST ON THY BROWS, 0021080AND YET WOULDST SHUN THE WAVERING TURNS OF WAR, 0021090IN FEAR AND FEELING OF THE LIKE DISTRESS, 0021100BEHOLD THE TURK AND HIS GREAT EMPERESS! 0021110AH, MIGHTY JOVE AND HOLY MAHOMET, 0021120PARDON MY LOVE! O, PARDON HIS CONTEMPT 0021130OF EARTHLY FORTUNE AND RESPECT OF PITY, 0021140AND LET NOT CONQUEST, RUTHLESSLY PURSUED, 0021150BE EQUALLY AGAINST HIS LIFE INCENSED 0021160IN THIS GREAT TURK AND HAPLESS EMPERESS! 0021170AND PARDON ME THAT WAS NOT MOVED WITH RUTH 0021180TO SEE THEM LIVE SO LONG IN MISERY! 0021190AH, WHAT MAY CHANCE TO THEE, ZENOCRATE? 0021200MADAM, CONTENT YOURSELF, AND BE RESOLVED, 0021210YOUR LOVE HATH FORTUNE SO AT HIS COMMAND, 0021220THAT SHE SHALL STAY, AND TURN HER WHEEL NO MORE, 0021230AS LONG AS LIFE MAINTAINS HIS MIGHTY ARM 0021240THAT FIGHTS FOR HONOUR TO ADORN YOUR HEAD. 0021250WHAT OTHER HEAVY NEWS NOW BRINGS PHILEMUS? 0021260MADAM, YOUR FATHER, AND THE ARABIAN KING, 0021270THE FIRST AFFECTER OF YOUR EXCELLENCE, 0021280COMES NOW, AS TURNUS AGAINST AENEAS DID, 0021281ARMED WITH LANCE INTO THE EGYPTIAN FIELDS, 0021290READY FOR BATTLE AGAINST MY LORD THE KING. 0021300NOW SHAME AND DUTY, LOVE AND FEAR PRESENTS 0021310A THOUSAND SORROWS TO MY MARTYRED SOUL. 0021320WHOM SHOULD I WISH THE FATAL VICTORY, 0021330WHEN MY POOR PLEASURES ARE DIVIDED THUS, 0021340AND RACKED BY DUTY FROM MY CURSED HEART? 0021350MY FATHER AND MY FIRST BETROTHED LOVE 0021360MUST FIGHT AGAINST MY LIFE AND PRESENT LOVE, 0021370WHEREIN THE CHANGE I USE CONDEMNS MY FAITH 0021380AND MAKES MY DEEDS INFAMOUS THROUGH THE WORLD. 0021390BUT AS THE GODS, TO END THE TROJANS' TOIL, 0021400PREVENTED TURNUS OF LAVINIA 0021410AND FATALLY ENRICHED AENEAS' LOVE, 0021420SO, FOR A FINAL ISSUE TO MY GRIEFS, 0021430TO PACIFY MY COUNTRY AND MY LOVE, 0021440MUST TAMBURLAINE BY THEIR RESISTLESS POWERS, 0021450WITH VIRTUE OF A GENTLE VICTORY, 0021460CONCLUDE A LEAGUE OF HONOUR TO MY HOPE; 0021470THEN, AS THE POWERS DIVINE HAVE PREORDAINED, 0021480WITH HAPPY SAFETY OF MY FATHER'S LIFE 0021490SEND LIKE DEFENCE OF FAIR ARABIA. 0021500WHAT CURSED POWER GUIDES THE MURDERING HANDS 0021510OF THIS INFAMOUS TYRANT'S SOLDIERS, 0021520THAT NO ESCAPE MAY SAVE THEIR ENEMIES, 0021530NOR FORTUNE KEEP THEMSELVES FROM VICTORY? 0021540LIE DOWN, ARABIA, WOUNDED TO THE DEATH, 0021550AND LET ZENOCRATE'S FAIR EYES BEHOLD 0021560THAT, AS FOR HER THOU BEAREST THESE WRETCHED ARMS, 0021570EVEN SO FOR HER THOU DIEST IN THESE ARMS, 0021580LEAVING THY BLOOD FOR WITNESS OF THY LOVE. 0021590TOO DEAR A WITNESS FOR SUCH LOVE, MY LORD. 0021600BEHOLD ZENOCRATE, THE CURSED OBJECT 0021610WHOSE FORTUNES NEVER MASTERED HER GRIEFS. 0021620BEHOLD HER WOUNDED IN CONCEIT FOR THEE, 0021630AS MUCH AS THY FAIR BODY IS FOR ME! 0021640THEN SHALL I DIE WITH FULL CONTENTED HEART, 0021650HAVING BEHELD DIVINE ZENOCRATE, 0021660WHOSE SIGHT WITH JOY WOULD TAKE AWAY MY LIFE, 0021670AS NOW IT BRINGETH SWEETNESS TO MY WOUND, 0021680IF I HAD NOT BEEN WOUNDED AS I AM. 0021690AH, THAT THE DEADLY PANGS I SUFFER NOW 0021700WOULD LEND AN HOUR'S LICENSE TO MY TONGUE, 0021701TO MAKE DISCOURSE OF SOME SWEET ACCIDENTS 0021710HAVE CHANCED THY MERITS IN THIS WORTHLESS BONDAGE, 0021720AND THAT I MIGHT BE PRIVY TO THE STATE 0021730OF THY DESERVED CONTENTMENT AND THY LOVE. 0021740BUT, MAKING NOW A VIRTUE OF THY SIGHT, 0021750TO DRIVE ALL SORROW FROM MY FAINTING SOUL, 0021760SINCE DEATH DENIES ME FURTHER CAUSE OF JOY, 0021770DEPRIVED OF CARE, MY HEART WITH COMFORT DIES, 0021780SINCE THY DESIRED HAND SHALL CLOSE MINE EYES. 0021790COME, HAPPY FATHER OF ZENOCRATE, 0021800A TITLE HIGHER THAN THY SOLDAN'S NAME. 0021810THOUGH MY RIGHT HAND HAVE THUS ENTHRALLED THEE, 0021820THY PRINCELY DAUGHTER HERE SHALL SET THEE FREE, 0021830SHE THAT HATH CALMED THE FURY OF MY SWORD, 0021840WHICH HAD ERE THIS BEEN BATHED IN STREAMS OF BLOOD 0021850AS VAST AND DEEP AS EUPHRATES OR NILE. 0021860O SIGHT THRICE WELCOME TO MY JOYFUL SOUL, 0021870TO SEE THE KING, MY FATHER, ISSUE SAFE 0021880FROM DANGEROUS BATTLE OF MY CONQUERING LOVE! 0021890WELL MET, MY ONLY DEAR ZENOCRATE, 0021900THOUGH WITH THE LOSS OF EGYPT AND MY CROWN. 0021910IT WAS I, MY LORD, THAT GAT THE VICTORY, 0021920AND THEREFORE GRIEVE NOT AT YOUR OVERTHROW, 0021930SINCE I SHALL RENDER ALL INTO YOUR HANDS, 0021940AND ADD MORE STRENGTH TO YOUR DOMINIONS 0021950THAN EVER YET CONFIRMED THE EGYPTIAN CROWN. 0021960THE GOD OF WAR RESIGNS HIS ROOM TO ME, 0021970MEANING TO MAKE ME GENERAL OF THE WORLD. 0021980JOVE, VIEWING ME IN ARMS, LOOKS PALE AND WAN, 0021990FEARING MY POWER SHOULD PULL HIM FROM HIS THRONE. 0022000WHEREVER I COME THE FATAL SISTERS SWEAT, 0022010AND GRISLY DEATH, BY RUNNING TO AND FRO 0022020TO DO THEIR CEASELESS HOMAGE TO MY SWORD. 0022030AND HERE IN AFRIC, WHERE IT SELDOM RAINS, 0022040SINCE I ARRIVED WITH MY TRIUMPHANT HOST, 0022050HAVE SWELLING CLOUDS, DRAWN FROM WIDE-GASPING WOUNDS, 0022060BEEN OFT RESOLVED IN BLOODY PURPLE SHOWERS, 0022070A METEOR THAT MIGHT TERRIFY THE EARTH, 0022080AND MAKE IT QUAKE AT EVERY DROP IT DRINKS. 0022090MILLIONS OF SOULS SIT ON THE BANKS OF STYX, 0022100WAITING THE BACK RETURN OF CHARON'S BOAT; 0022101HELL AND ELYSIUM SWARM WITH GHOSTS OF MEN 0022110THAT I HAVE SENT FROM SUNDRY FOUGHTEN FIELDS 0022120TO SPREAD MY FAME THROUGH HELL AND UP TO HEAVEN. 0022130AND SEE, MY LORD, A SIGHT OF STRANGE IMPORT, 0022140EMPERORS AND KINGS LIE BREATHLESS AT MY FEET. 0022150THE TURK AND HIS GREAT EMPRESS, AS IT SEEMS, 0022160LEFT TO THEMSELVES WHILE WE WERE AT THE FIGHT, 0022170HAVE DESPERATELY DISPATCHED THEIR SLAVISH LIVES: 0022180WITH THEM ARABIA, TOO, HATH LEFT HIS LIFE; 0022190ALL SIGHTS OF POWER TO GRACE MY VICTORY. 0022200AND SUCH ARE OBJECTS FIT FOR TAMBURLAINE, 0022210WHEREIN, AS IN A MIRROR, MAY BE SEEN 0022220HIS HONOUR, THAT CONSISTS IN SHEDDING BLOOD 0022230WHEN MEN PRESUME TO MANAGE ARMS WITH HIM. 0022240MIGHTY HATH GOD AND MAHOMET MADE THY HAND, 0022250(RENOWNED TAMBURLAINE), TO WHOM ALL KINGS 0022260OF FORCE MUST YIELD THEIR CROWNS AND EMPERIES; 0022270AND I AM PLEASED WITH THIS MY OVERTHROW, 0022280IF, AS BESEEMS A PERSON OF THY STATE, 0022290THOU HAST WITH HONOUR USED ZENOCRATE. 0022300HER STATE AND PERSON WANT NO POMP, YOU SEE, 0022310AND FOR ALL BLOT OF FOUL INCHASTITY, 0022320I RECORD HEAVEN, HER HEAVENLY SELF IS CLEAR. 0022330THEN LET ME FIND NO FURTHER TIME TO GRACE 0022340HER PRINCELY TEMPLES WITH THE PERSIAN CROWN; 0022350BUT HERE THESE KINGS THAT ON MY FORTUNES WAIT, 0022360AND HAVE BEEN CROWNED FOR PROVED WORTHINESS 0022370EVEN BY THIS HAND THAT SHALL ESTABLISH THEM, 0022380SHALL NOW, ADJOINING ALL THEIR HANDS WITH MINE, 0022390INVEST HER HERE THE QUEEN OF PERSIA. 0022400WHAT SAITH THE NOBLE SOLDAN AND ZENOCRATE? 0022410I YIELD WITH THANKS AND PROTESTATIONS 0022420OF ENDLESS HONOUR TO THEE FOR HER LOVE. 0022430THEN DOUBT I NOT BUT FAIR ZENOCRATE 0022440WILL SOON CONSENT TO SATISFY US BOTH. 0022450ELSE SHOULD I MUCH FORGET MYSELF, MY LORD. 0022460THEN LET US SET THE CROWN UPON HER HEAD, 0022470THAT LONG HATH LINGERED FOR SO HIGH A SEAT. 0022480MY HAND IS READY TO PERFORM THE DEED, 0022490FOR NOW HER MARRIAGE-TIME SHALL WORK US REST. 0022500AND HERE IS THE CROWN, MY LORD; HELP SET IT ON. 0022510THEN SIT THOU DOWN, DIVINE ZENOCRATE, 0022520AND HERE WE CROWN THEE QUEEN OF PERSIA, 0022521AND ALL THE KINGDOMS AND DOMINIONS 0022530THAT LATE THE POWER OF TAMBURLAINE SUBDUED. 0022540AS JUNO, WHEN THE GIANTS WERE SUPPRESSED, 0022550THAT DARTED MOUNTAINS AT HER BROTHER JOVE, 0022560SO LOOKS MY LOVE, SHADOWING IN HER BROWS 0022570TRIUMPHS AND TROPHIES FOR MY VICTORIES; 0022580OR AS LATONA'S DAUGHTER, BENT TO ARMS, 0022590ADDING MORE COURAGE TO MY CONQUERING MIND. 0022600TO GRATIFY THEE, SWEET ZENOCRATE, 0022610EGYPTIANS, MOORS, AND MEN OF ASIA, 0022620FROM BARBARY UNTO THE WESTERN INDIE, 0022630SHALL PAY A YEARLY TRIBUTE TO THY SIRE; 0022640AND FROM THE BOUNDS OF AFRIC TO THE BANKS 0022650OF GANGES SHALL HIS MIGHTY ARM EXTEND. 0022660AND NOW, MY LORDS AND LOVING FOLLOWERS, 0022670THAT PURCHASED KINGDOMS BY YOUR MARTIAL DEEDS, 0022680CAST OFF YOUR ARMOUR, PUT ON SCARLET ROBES, 0022690MOUNT UP YOUR ROYAL PLACES OF ESTATE, 0022700ENVIRONED WITH TROOPS OF NOBLEMEN, 0022710AND THERE MAKE LAWS TO RULE YOUR PROVINCES. 0022720HANG UP YOUR WEAPONS ON ALCIDES' POST, 0022730FOR TAMBURLAINE TAKES TRUCE WITH ALL THE WORLD. 0022740THY FIRST-BETROTHED LOVE, ARABIA, 0022750SHALL WE WITH HONOUR, AS BESEEMS, ENTOMB 0022760WITH THIS GREAT TURK AND HIS FAIR EMPERESS. 0022770THEN, AFTER ALL THESE SOLEMN EXEQUIES, 0022780WE WILL OUR CELEBRATED RITES OF MARRIAGE SOLEMNIZE.