From: CBS%UK.AC.ULSTER.UPVAX::CBHW23 11-DEC-1989 18:30:03.56 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: Via: UK.AC.ULSTER.UPVAX; Mon, 11 Dec 89 18:25 GMT Date: 11-DEC-1989 18:18:17 GMT From: CBHW23@UK.AC.ULSTER.UPVAX To: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX 0000010THE GENERAL WELCOMES TAMBURLAINE RECEIVED, 0000020WHEN HE ARRIVED LAST UPON OUR STAGE, 0000030HATH MADE OUR POET PEN HIS SECOND PART, 0000040WHERE DEATH CUTS OFF THE PROGRESS OF HIS POMP 0000050AND MURDEROUS FATES THROWS ALL HIS TRIUMPHS DOWN. 0000060BUT WHAT BECAME OF FAIR ZENOCRATE, 0000070AND WITH HOW MANY CITIES' SACRIFICE 0000080HE CELEBRATED HER SAD FUNERAL, 0000090HIMSELF IN PRESENCE SHALL UNFOLD AT LARGE. 0000100EGREGIOUS VICEROYS OF THESE EASTERN PARTS, 0000110PLACED BY THE ISSUE OF GREAT BAJAZETH, 0000120AND SACRED LORD, THE MIGHTY CALLAPINE, 0000130WHO LIVES IN EGYPT PRISONER TO THAT SLAVE 0000140WHICH KEPT HIS FATHER IN AN IRON CAGE, 0000150NOW HAVE WE MARCHED FROM FAIR NATOLIA 0000160TWO HUNDRED LEAGUES, AND ON DANUBIUS' BANKS 0000170OUR WARLIKE HOST IN COMPLETE ARMOUR REST, 0000180WHERE SIGISMUND, THE KING OF HUNGARY, 0000190SHOULD MEET OUR PERSON TO CONCLUDE A TRUCE. 0000200WHAT! SHALL WE PARLE WITH THE CHRISTIAN, 0000210OR CROSS THE STREAM AND MEET HIM IN THE FIELD? 0000220KING OF NATOLIA, LET US TREAT OF PEACE. 0000230WE ARE ALL GLUTTED WITH THE CHRISTIANS' BLOOD, 0000240AND HAVE A GREATER FOE TO FIGHT AGAINST, 0000250PROUD TAMBURLAINE, THAT NOW IN ASIA, 0000260NEAR GUYRON'S HEAD, DOTH SET HIS CONQUERING FEET 0000270AND MEANS TO FIRE TURKEY AS HE GOES. 0000271AGAINST HIM, MY LORD, MUST YOU ADDRESS YOUR POWER. 0000280BESIDES, KING SIGISMUND HATH BROUGHT FROM 0000290CHRISTENDOM 0000300MORE THAN HIS CAMP OF STOUT HUNGARIANS - 0000310SLAVONIANS, ALMAINS, RUTTERS, MUFFS, AND DANES, 0000320THAT WITH THE HALBERD, LANCE, AND MURDERING AXE, 0000330WILL HAZARD THAT WE MIGHT WITH SURETY HOLD. 0000340THOUGH FROM THE SHORTEST NORTHERN PARALLEL, 0000350VAST GRUNTLAND, COMPASSED WITH THE FROZEN SEA, 0000360INHABITED WITH TALL AND STURDY MEN, 0000370GIANTS AS BIG AS HUGY POLYPHEME, 0000380MILLIONS OF SOLDIERS CUT THE ARCTIC LINE, 0000390BRINGING THE STRENGTH OF EUROPE TO THESE ARMS, 0000400OUR TURKEY BLADES SHALL GLIDE THROUGH ALL THEIR 0000410THROATS, 0000420AND MAKE THIS CHAMPION MEAD A BLOODY FEN. 0000430DANUBIUS' STREAM, THAT RUNS TO TREBIZON, 0000440SHALL CARRY, WRAPPED WITHIN HIS SCARLET WAVES, 0000450AS MARTIAL PRESENTS TO OUR FRIENDS AT HOME, 0000460THE SLAUGHTERED BODIES OF THESE CHRISTIANS. 0000470THE TERRENE MAIN, WHEREIN DANUBIUS' FALLS, 0000480SHALL BY THIS BATTLE BE THE BLOODY SEA. 0000490THE WANDERING SAILORS OF PROUD ITALY 0000500SHALL MEET THOSE CHRISTIANS, FLEETING WITH THE TIDE, 0000510BEATING IN HEAPS AGAINST THEIR ARGOSIES, 0000520AND MAKE FAIR EUROPE, MOUNTED ON HER BULL, 0000530TRAPPED WITH THE WEALTH AND RICHES OF THE WORLD, 0000540ALIGHT AND WEAR A WOEFUL MOURNING WEED. 0000550YET, STOUT ORCANES, PROREX OF THE WORLD, 0000560SINCE TAMBURLAINE HATH MUSTERED ALL HIS MEN, 0000570MARCHING FROM CAIRO NORTHWARD WITH HIS CAMP, 0000580TO ALEXANDRIA AND THE FRONTIER TOWNS, 0000590MEANING TO MAKE A CONQUEST OF OUR LAND, 0000600IT IS REQUISITE TO PARLE FOR A PEACE 0000610WITH SIGISMUND, THE KING OF HUNGARY, 0000620AND SAVE OUR FORCES FOR THE HOT ASSAULTS 0000630PROUD TAMBURLAINE INTENDS NATOLIA. 0000640VICEROY OF BYRON, WISELY HAST THOU SAID. 0000650MY REALM, THE CENTRE OF OUR EMPERY, 0000660ONCE LOST, ALL TURKEY WOULD BE OVERTHROWN; 0000670AND FOR THAT CAUSE THE CHRISTIANS SHALL HAVE PEACE. 0000680SLAVONIANS, ALMAINS, RUTTERS, MUFFS, AND DANES, 0000690FEAR NOT ORCANES, BUT GREAT TAMBURLAINE, 0000700NOR HE, BUT FORTUNE THAT HATH MADE HIM GREAT. 0000701WE HAVE REVOLTED GRECIANS, ALBANESE, 0000710SICILIANS, JEWS, ARABIANS, TURKS, AND MOORS, 0000720NATOLIANS, SORIANS, BLACK EGYPTIANS, 0000730ILLYRIANS, THRACIANS, AND BITHYNIANS, 0000740ENOUGH TO SWALLOW FORCELESS SIGISMUND, 0000750YET SCARCE ENOUGH TO ENCOUNTER TAMBURLAINE. 0000760HE BRINGS A WORLD OF PEOPLE TO THE FIELD: 0000770FROM SCYTHIA TO THE ORIENTAL PLAGE 0000780OF INDIA, WHERE RAGING LANTCHIDOL 0000790BEATS ON THE REGIONS WITH HIS BOISTEROUS BLOWS, 0000800THAT NEVER SEAMAN YET DISCOVERED. 0000810ALL ASIA IS IN ARMS WITH TAMBURLAINE. 0000820EVEN FROM THE MIDST OF FIERY CANCER'S TROPIC 0000830TO AMAZONIA UNDER CAPRICORN, 0000840AND THENCE AS FAR AS ARCHIPELAGO, 0000850ALL AFRIC IS IN ARMS WITH TAMBURLAINE; 0000860THEREFORE, VICEROYS, THE CHRISTIANS MUST HAVE PEACE. 0000870ORCANES, (AS OUR LEGATES PROMISED THEE), 0000880WE, WITH OUR PEERS, HAVE CROSSED DANUBIUS' STREAM 0000890TO TREAT OF FRIENDLY PEACE OR DEADLY WAR. 0000900TAKE WHICH THOU WILT; FOR, AS THE ROMANS USED, 0000910I HERE PRESENT THEE WITH A NAKED SWORD. 0000920WILT THOU HAVE WAR, THEN SHAKE THIS BLADE AT ME; 0000930IF PEACE, RESTORE IT TO MY HANDS AGAIN, 0000940AND I WILL SHEATHE IT TO CONFIRM THE SAME. 0000950STAY, SIGISMUND. FORGETTEST THOU I AM HE 0000960THAT WITH THE CANNON SHOOK VIENNA WALLS 0000970AND MADE IT DANCE UPON THE CONTINENT, 0000980AS WHEN THE MASSY SUBSTANCE OF THE EARTH 0000990QUIVER ABOUT THE AXLETREE OF HEAVEN? 0001000FORGETTEST THOU THAT I SENT A SHOWER OF DARTS, 0001010MINGLED WITH POWDERED SHOT AND FEATHERED STEEL, 0001020SO THICK UPON THE BLINK-EYED BURGHERS' HEADS, 0001030THAT THOU THYSELF, THEN COUNTY PALATINE, 0001040THE KING OF BOHEME, AND THE AUSTRIC DUKE, 0001050SENT HERALDS OUT, WHICH BASELY ON THEIR KNEES, 0001060IN ALL YOUR NAMES DESIRED A TRUCE OF ME? 0001070FORGETTEST THOU THAT TO HAVE ME RAISE MY SIEGE, 0001080WAGONS OF GOLD WERE SET BEFORE MY TENT, 0001090STAMPED WITH THE PRINCELY FOWL THAT IN HER WINGS 0001100CARRIES THE FEARFUL THUNDERBOLTS OF JOVE? 0001101HOW CANST THOU THINK OF THIS AND OFFER WAR? 0001110VIENNA WAS BESIEGED, AND I WAS THERE, 0001120THEN COUNTY PALATINE BUT NOW A KING, 0001130AND WHAT WE DID WAS IN EXTREMITY. 0001140BUT NOW, ORCANES, VIEW MY ROYAL HOST 0001150THAT HIDES THESE PLAINS AND SEEMS AS VAST AND WIDE 0001160AS DOTH THE DESERT OF ARABIA 0001170TO THOSE THAT STAND ON BAGDET'S LOFTY TOWER, 0001180OR AS THE OCEAN TO THE TRAVELLER 0001190THAT RESTS UPON THE SNOWY APENNINES, 0001200AND TELL ME WHETHER I SHOULD STOOP SO LOW, 0001210OR TREAT OF PEACE WITH THE NATOLIAN KING. 0001220KINGS OF NATOLIA AND OF HUNGARY, 0001230WE CAME FROM TURKEY TO CONFIRM A LEAGUE, 0001240AND NOT TO DARE EACH OTHER TO THE FIELD. 0001250A FRIENDLY PARLE MIGHT BECOME YE BOTH. 0001260AND WE FROM EUROPE, TO THE SAME INTENT, 0001270WHICH IF YOUR GENERAL REFUSE OR SCORN, 0001280OUR TENTS ARE PITCHED, OUR MEN STAND IN ARRAY, 0001290READY TO CHARGE YOU ERE YOU STIR YOUR FEET. 0001300SO PREST ARE WE: BUT YET, IF SIGISMUND 0001310SPEAK AS A FRIEND, AND STAND NOT UPON TERMS, 0001320HERE IS HIS SWORD; LET PEACE BE RATIFIED 0001330ON THESE CONDITIONS SPECIFIED BEFORE, 0001340DRAWN WITH ADVICE OF OUR AMBASSADORS. 0001350THEN HERE I SHEATHE IT AND GIVE THEE MY HAND, 0001360NEVER TO DRAW IT OUT OR MANAGE ARMS 0001370AGAINST THYSELF OR THY CONFEDERATES, 0001380BUT WHILST I LIVE WILL BE AT TRUCE WITH THEE. 0001390BUT, SIGISMUND, CONFIRM IT WITH AN OATH, 0001400AND SWEAR IN SIGHT OF HEAVEN AND BY THY CHRIST. 0001410BY HIM THAT MADE THE WORLD AND SAVED MY SOUL, 0001420THE SON OF GOD AND ISSUE OF A MAID, 0001430SWEET JESUS CHRIST, I SOLEMNLY PROTEST 0001440AND VOW TO KEEP THIS PEACE INVIOLABLE. 0001450BY SACRED MAHOMET, THE FRIEND OF GOD, 0001460WHOSE HOLY ALCORAN REMAINS WITH US, 0001470WHOSE GLORIOUS BODY, WHEN HE LEFT THE WORLD, 0001480CLOSED IN A COFFIN MOUNTED UP THE AIR 0001490AND HUNG ON STATELY MECCA'S TEMPLE ROOF, 0001500I SWEAR TO KEEP THIS TRUCE INVIOLABLE. 0001510OF WHOSE CONDITIONS AND OUR SOLEMN OATHS, 0001520SIGNED WITH OUR HANDS, EACH SHALL RETAIN A SCROLL 0001530AS MEMORABLE WITNESS OF OUR LEAGUE. 0001540NOW, SIGISMUND, IF ANY CHRISTIAN KING 0001550ENCROACH UPON THE CONFINES OF THY REALM, 0001551SEND WORD ORCANES OF NATOLIA 0001560CONFIRMED THIS LEAGUE BEYOND DANUBIUS' STREAM, 0001570AND THEY WILL, TREMBLING, SOUND A QUICK RETREAT; 0001580SO AM I FEARED AMONG ALL NATIONS. 0001590IF ANY HEATHEN POTENTATE OR KING 0001600INVADE NATOLIA, SIGISMUND WILL SEND 0001610A HUNDRED THOUSAND HORSE TRAINED TO THE WAR, 0001620AND BACKED BY STOUT LANCERS OF GERMANY, 0001630THE STRENGTH AND SINEWS OF THE IMPERIAL SEAT. 0001640I THANK THEE, SIGISMUND; BUT, WHEN I WAR, 0001650ALL ASIA MINOR, AFRICA, AND GREECE 0001660FOLLOW MY STANDARD AND MY THUNDERING DRUMS. 0001670COME, LET US GO AND BANQUET IN OUR TENTS. 0001680I WILL DISPATCH CHIEF OF MY ARMY HENCE 0001690TO FAIR NATOLIA AND TO TREBIZON, 0001700TO STAY MY COMING AGAINST PROUD TAMBURLAINE. 0001710FRIEND SIGISMUND AND PEERS OF HUNGARY, 0001720COME, BANQUET AND CAROUSE WITH US AWHILE, 0001730AND THEN DEPART WE TO OUR TERRITORIES. 0001740SWEET ALMEDA, PITY THE RUTHFUL PLIGHT 0001750OF CALLAPINE, THE SON OF BAJAZETH, 0001760BORN TO BE MONARCH OF THE WESTERN WORLD, 0001770YET HERE DETAINED BY CRUEL TAMBURLAINE. 0001780MY LORD, I PITY IT, AND WITH MY HEART 0001790WISH YOUR RELEASE; BUT HE WHOSE WRATH IS DEATH, 0001800MY SOVEREIGN LORD, RENOWNED TAMBURLAINE, 0001810FORBIDS YOU FURTHER LIBERTY THAN THIS. 0001820AH, WERE I NOW BUT HALF SO ELOQUENT 0001830TO PAINT IN WORDS WHAT I WILL PERFORM IN DEEDS, 0001840I KNOW THOU WOULDST DEPART FROM HENCE WITH ME. 0001850NOT FOR ALL AFRIC; THEREFORE MOVE ME NOT. 0001860YET HEAR ME SPEAK, MY GENTLE ALMEDA. 0001870NO SPEECH TO THAT END, BY YOUR FAVOUR, SIR. 0001880BY CAIRO RUNS - 0001890NO TALK OF RUNNING, I TELL YOU, SIR. 0001900A LITTLE FURTHER, GENTLE ALMEDA. 0001910WELL, SIR, WHAT OF THIS? 0001920BY CAIRO RUNS TO ALEXANDRIA BAY 0001930DAROTE'S STREAMS, WHEREIN AT ANCHOR LIES 0001940A TURKISH GALLEY OF MY ROYAL FLEET, 0001950WAITING MY COMING TO THE RIVER SIDE, 0001960HOPING BY SOME MEANS I SHALL BE RELEASED; 0001970WHICH, WHEN I COME ABOARD, WILL HOIST UP SAIL 0001971AND SOON PUT FORTH INTO THE TERRENE SEA, 0001980WHERE, BETWIXT THE ISLES OF CYPRUS AND OF CRETE, 0001990WE QUICKLY MAY IN TURKISH SEAS ARRIVE. 0002000THEN SHALT THOU SEE A HUNDRED KINGS AND MORE, 0002010UPON THEIR KNEES, ALL BID ME WELCOME HOME. 0002020AMONGST SO MANY CROWNS OF BURNISHED GOLD, 0002030CHOOSE WHICH THOU WILT, ALL ARE AT THY COMMAND. 0002040A THOUSAND GALLEYS, MANNED WITH CHRISTIAN SLAVES, 0002050I FREELY GIVE THEE, WHICH SHALL CUT THE STRAITS, 0002060AND BRING ARMADOES FROM THE COASTS OF SPAIN, 0002070FRAUGHTED WITH GOLD OF RICH AMERICA. 0002080THE GRECIAN VIRGINS SHALL ATTEND ON THEE, 0002090SKILFUL IN MUSIC AND IN AMOROUS LAYS, 0002100AS FAIR AS WAS PYGMALION'S IVORY GIRL 0002110OR LOVELY IO METAMORPHOSED. 0002120WITH NAKED NEGROES SHALL THY COACH BE DRAWN, 0002130AND, AS THOU RIDEST IN TRIUMPH THROUGH THE STREETS, 0002140THE PAVEMENT UNDERNEATH THY CHARIOT WHEELS 0002150WITH TURKEY CARPETS SHALL BE COVERED, 0002160AND CLOTH OF ARRAS HUNG ABOUT THE WALLS, 0002170FIT OBJECTS FOR THY PRINCELY EYE TO PIERCE. 0002180A HUNDRED BASSOES, CLOTHED IN CRIMSON SILK, 0002190SHALL RIDE BEFORE THEE ON BARBARIAN STEEDS; 0002200AND, WHEN THOU GOEST, A GOLDEN CANOPY 0002210ENCHASED WITH PRECIOUS STONES, WHICH SHINE AS BRIGHT 0002220AS THAT FAIR VEIL THAT COVERS ALL THE WORLD, 0002230WHEN PHOEBUS, LEAPING FROM HIS HEMISPHERE, 0002240DESCENDETH DOWNWARD TO THE ANTIPODES - 0002250AND MORE THAN THIS, FOR ALL I CANNOT TELL. 0002260HOW FAR HENCE LIES THE GALLEY, SAY YOU? 0002270SWEET ALMEDA, SCARCE HALF A LEAGUE FROM HENCE. 0002280BUT NEED WE NOT BE SPIED GOING ABOARD? 0002290BETWIXT THE HOLLOW HANGING OF A HILL 0002300AND CROOKED BENDING OF A CRAGGY ROCK, 0002310THE SAILS WRAPPED UP, THE MAST AND TACKLINGS DOWN, 0002320SHE LIES SO CLOSE THAT NONE CAN FIND HER OUT. 0002330I LIKE THAT WELL. BUT TELL ME, MY LORD, IF I 0002340SHOULD LET YOU GO, WOULD YOU BE AS GOOD AS YOUR WORD? 0002350SHALL I BE MADE A KING FOR MY LABOUR? 0002360AS I AM CALLAPINE THE EMPEROR, 0002370AND BY THE HAND OF MAHOMET I SWEAR, 0002380THOU SHALT BE CROWNED A KING, AND BE MY MATE. 0002390THEN HERE I SWEAR, AS I AM ALMEDA, 0002391YOUR KEEPER UNDER TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT, 0002400(FOR THAT IS THE STYLE AND TITLE I HAVE YET,) 0002410ALTHOUGH HE SENT A THOUSAND ARMED MEN 0002420TO INTERCEPT THIS HAUGHTY ENTERPRISE, 0002430YET WOULD I VENTURE TO CONDUCT YOUR GRACE 0002440AND DIE BEFORE I BROUGHT YOU BACK AGAIN! 0002450THANKS, GENTLE ALMEDA. THEN LET US HASTE, 0002460LEST TIME BE PAST AND LINGERING LET US BOTH. 0002470WHEN YOU WILL, MY LORD, I AM READY. 0002480EVEN STRAIGHT: AND FAREWELL, CURSED TAMBURLAINE. 0002490NOW GO I TO REVENGE MY FATHER'S DEATH. 0002500NOW, BRIGHT ZENOCRATE, THE WORLD'S FAIR EYE, 0002510WHOSE BEAMS ILLUMINATE THE LAMPS OF HEAVEN, 0002520WHOSE CHEERFUL LOOKS DO CLEAR THE CLOUDY AIR 0002530AND CLOTHE IT IN A CRYSTAL LIVERY, 0002540NOW REST THEE HERE ON FAIR LARISSA PLAINS, 0002550WHERE EGYPT AND THE TURKISH EMPIRE PARTS, 0002560BETWEEN THY SONS THAT SHALL BE EMPERORS, 0002570AND EVERY ONE COMMANDER OF A WORLD. 0002580SWEET TAMBURLAINE, WHEN WILT THOU LEAVE THESE ARMS 0002590AND SAVE THY SACRED PERSON FREE FROM SCATHE 0002600AND DANGEROUS CHANCES OF THE WRATHFUL WAR? 0002610WHEN HEAVEN SHALL CEASE TO MOVE ON BOTH THE POLES, 0002620AND WHEN THE GROUND, WHEREON MY SOLDIERS MARCH, 0002630SHALL RISE ALOFT AND TOUCH THE HORNED MOON, 0002640AND NOT BEFORE, MY SWEET ZENOCRATE. 0002650SIT UP, AND REST THEE LIKE A LOVELY QUEEN. 0002660SO, NOW SHE SITS IN POMP AND MAJESTY, 0002670WHEN THESE, MY SONS, MORE PRECIOUS IN MINE EYES 0002680THAN ALL THE WEALTHY KINGDOMS I SUBDUED, 0002690PLACED BY HER SIDE, LOOK ON THEIR MOTHER'S FACE. 0002700BUT YET METHINKS THEIR LOOKS ARE AMOROUS, 0002710NOT MARTIAL AS THE SONS OF TAMBURLAINE. 0002720WATER AND AIR, BEING SYMBOLIZED IN ONE, 0002730ARGUE THEIR WANT OF COURAGE AND OF WIT; 0002740THEIR HAIR, AS WHITE AS MILK, AND SOFT AS DOWN, 0002750(WHICH SHOULD BE LIKE THE QUILLS OF PORCUPINES, 0002760AS BLACK AS JET, AND HARD AS IRON OR STEEL), 0002770BEWRAYS THEY ARE TOO DAINTY FOR THE WARS; 0002771THEIR FINGERS MADE TO QUAVER ON A LUTE, 0002780THEIR ARMS TO HANG ABOUT A LADY'S NECK, 0002790THEIR LEGS TO DANCE AND CAPER IN THE AIR, 0002800WOULD MAKE ME THINK THEM BASTARDS, NOT MY SONS, 0002810BUT THAT I KNOW THEY ISSUED FROM THY WOMB, 0002820THAT NEVER LOOKED ON MAN BUT TAMBURLAINE. 0002830MY GRACIOUS LORD, THEY HAVE THEIR MOTHER'S LOOKS, 0002840BUT WHEN THEY LIST, THEIR CONQUERING FATHER'S HEART. 0002850THIS LOVELY BOY, THE YOUNGEST OF THE THREE, 0002860NOT LONG AGO BESTRID A SCYTHIAN STEED, 0002870TROTTING THE RING, AND TILTING AT A GLOVE, 0002880WHICH WHEN HE TAINTED WITH HIS SLENDER ROD, 0002890HE REINED HIM STRAIGHT, AND MADE HIM SO CURVET 0002900AS I CRIED OUT FOR FEAR HE SHOULD HAVE FALLEN. 0002910WELL DONE, MY BOY! THOU SHALT HAVE SHIELD AND 0002920LANCE, 0002930ARMOUR OF PROOF, HORSE, HELM, AND CURTLE-AXE, 0002940AND I WILL TEACH THEE HOW TO CHARGE THY FOE 0002950AND HARMLESS RUN AMONG THE DEADLY PIKES. 0002960IF THOU WILT LOVE THE WARS AND FOLLOW ME, 0002970THOU SHALT BE MADE A KING AND REIGN WITH ME, 0002980KEEPING IN IRON CAGES EMPERORS. 0002990IF THOU EXCEED THY ELDER BROTHERS' WORTH, 0003000AND SHINE IN COMPLETE VIRTUE MORE THAN THEY, 0003010THOU SHALT BE KING BEFORE THEM, AND THY SEED 0003020SHALL ISSUE CROWNED FROM THEIR MOTHER'S WOMB. 0003030YES, FATHER; YOU SHALL SEE ME, IF I LIVE, 0003040HAVE UNDER ME AS MANY KINGS AS YOU, 0003050AND MARCH WITH SUCH A MULTITUDE OF MEN 0003060AS ALL THE WORLD SHALL TREMBLE AT THEIR VIEW. 0003070THESE WORDS ASSURE ME, BOY, THOU ART MY SON. 0003080WHEN I AM OLD AND CANNOT MANAGE ARMS, 0003090BE THOU THE SCOURGE AND TERROR OF THE WORLD. 0003100WHY MAY NOT I, MY LORD, AS WELL AS HE, 0003110BE TERMED THE SCOURGE AND TERROR OF THE WORLD? 0003120BE ALL A SCOURGE AND TERROR TO THE WORLD, 0003130OR ELSE YOU ARE NOT SONS OF TAMBURLAINE. 0003140BUT WHILE MY BROTHERS FOLLOW ARMS, MY LORD, 0003150LET ME ACCOMPANY MY GRACIOUS MOTHER. 0003160THEY ARE ENOUGH TO CONQUER ALL THE WORLD, 0003170AND YOU HAVE WON ENOUGH FOR ME TO KEEP. 0003180BASTARDLY BOY, SPRUNG FROM SOME COWARD'S LOINS, 0003190AND NOT THE ISSUE OF GREAT TAMBURLAINE! 0003191OF ALL THE PROVINCES I HAVE SUBDUED 0003200THOU SHALT NOT HAVE A FOOT, UNLESS THOU BEAR 0003210A MIND COURAGEOUS AND INVINCIBLE; 0003220FOR HE SHALL WEAR THE CROWN OF PERSIA 0003230WHOSE HEAD HATH DEEPEST SCARS, WHOSE BREAST MOST 0003240WOUNDS. 0003250WHICH BEING WROTH SENDS LIGHTNING FROM HIS EYES, 0003260AND IN THE FURROWS OF HIS FROWNING BROWS 0003270HARBOURS REVENGE, WAR, DEATH, AND CRUELTY; 0003280FOR IN A FIELD, WHOSE SUPERFICIES 0003290IS COVERED WITH A LIQUID PURPLE VEIL 0003300AND SPRINKLED WITH THE BRAINS OF SLAUGHTERED MEN, 0003310MY ROYAL CHAIR OF STATE SHALL BE ADVANCED; 0003320AND HE THAT MEANS TO PLACE HIMSELF THEREIN, 0003330MUST ARMED WADE UP TO THE CHIN IN BLOOD. 0003340MY LORD, SUCH SPEECHES TO OUR PRINCELY SONS 0003350DISMAY THEIR MINDS BEFORE THEY COME TO PROVE 0003360THE WOUNDING TROUBLES ANGRY WAR AFFORDS. 0003370NO, MADAM, THESE ARE SPEECHES FIT FOR US, 0003380FOR IF HIS CHAIR WERE IN A SEA OF BLOOD, 0003390I WOULD PREPARE A SHIP AND SAIL TO IT, 0003400ERE I WOULD LOSE THE TITLE OF A KING. 0003410AND I WOULD STRIVE TO SWIM THROUGH POOLS OF BLOOD 0003420OR MAKE A BRIDGE OF MURDERED CARCASSES, 0003430WHOSE ARCHES SHOULD BE FRAMED WITH BONES OF TURKS, 0003440ERE I WOULD LOSE THE TITLE OF A KING. 0003450WELL, LOVELY BOYS, YOU SHALL BE EMPERORS BOTH, 0003460STRETCHING YOUR CONQUERING ARMS FROM EAST TO WEST. 0003470AND, SIRRAH, IF YOU MEAN TO WEAR A CROWN, 0003480WHEN WE SHALL MEET THE TURKISH DEPUTY 0003490AND ALL HIS VICEROYS, SNATCH IT FROM HIS HEAD, 0003500AND CLEAVE HIS PERICRANION WITH THY SWORD. 0003510IF ANY MAN WILL HOLD HIM, I WILL STRIKE 0003520AND CLEAVE HIM TO THE CHANNEL WITH MY SWORD. 0003530HOLD HIM, AND CLEAVE HIM TOO, OR I WILL CLEAVE THEE; 0003540FOR WE WILL MARCH AGAINST THEM PRESENTLY. 0003550THERIDAMAS, TECHELLES, AND CASANE 0003560PROMISED TO MEET ME ON LARISSA PLAINS 0003570WITH HOSTS APIECE AGAINST THIS TURKISH CREW; 0003580FOR I HAVE SWORN BY SACRED MAHOMET 0003590TO MAKE IT PARCEL OF MY EMPERY. 0003600THE TRUMPETS SOUND, ZENOCRATE; THEY COME. 0003610WELCOME THERIDAMAS, KING OF ARGIER. 0003620MY LORD, THE GREAT AND MIGHTY TAMBURLAINE, 0003630ARCH-MONARCH OF THE WORLD, I OFFER HERE 0003640MY CROWN, MYSELF, AND ALL THE POWER I HAVE, 0003650IN ALL AFFECTION AT THY KINGLY FEET. 0003660THANKS, GOOD THERIDAMAS. 0003670UNDER MY COLOURS MARCH TEN THOUSAND GREEKS, 0003680AND OF ARGIER AND AFRIC'S FRONTIER TOWNS 0003690TWICE TWENTY THOUSAND VALIANT MEN-AT-ARMS, 0003700ALL WHICH HAVE SWORN TO SACK NATOLIA. 0003710FIVE HUNDRED BRIGANDINES ARE UNDER SAIL, 0003720MEET FOR YOUR SERVICE ON THE SEA, MY LORD, 0003730THAT, LAUNCHING FROM ARGIER TO TRIPOLI, 0003740WILL QUICKLY RIDE BEFORE NATOLIA, 0003750AND BATTER DOWN THE CASTLES ON THE SHORE. 0003760WELL SAID, ARGIER; RECEIVE THY CROWN AGAIN. 0003790KINGS OF MOROCCO AND OF FEZ, WELCOME. 0003800MAGNIFICENT AND PEERLESS TAMBURLAINE, 0003810I AND MY NEIGHBOUR KING OF FEZ HAVE BROUGHT, 0003820TO AID THEE IN THIS TURKISH EXPEDITION, 0003830A HUNDRED THOUSAND EXPERT SOLDIERS; 0003840FROM AZAMOR TO TUNIS NEAR THE SEA 0003850IS BARBARY UNPEOPLED FOR THY SAKE, 0003860AND ALL THE MEN IN ARMOUR UNDER ME, 0003870WHICH WITH MY CROWN I GLADLY OFFER THEE. 0003880THANKS, KING OF MOROCCO; TAKE YOUR CROWN AGAIN. 0003890AND, MIGHTY TAMBURLAINE, OUR EARTHLY GOD, 0003900WHOSE LOOKS MAKE THIS INFERIOR WORLD TO QUAKE, 0003910I HERE PRESENT THEE WITH THE CROWN OF FEZ, 0003920AND WITH AN HOST OF MOORS TRAINED TO THE WAR, 0003930WHOSE COAL-BLACK FACES MAKE THEIR FOES RETIRE 0003940AND QUAKE FOR FEAR, AS IF INFERNAL JOVE, 0003950MEANING TO AID THEE IN THESE TURKISH ARMS, 0003960SHOULD PIERCE THE BLACK CIRCUMFERENCE OF HELL, 0003970WITH UGLY FURIES BEARING FIERY FLAGS, 0003980AND MILLIONS OF HIS STRONG TORMENTING SPIRITS; 0003990FROM STRONG TESELLA UNTO BILEDULL 0004000ALL BARBARY IS UNPEOPLED FOR THY SAKE. 0004010THANKS, KING OF FEZ; TAKE HERE THY CROWN AGAIN. 0004020YOUR PRESENCE, LOVING FRIENDS AND FELLOW KINGS, 0004030MAKES ME TO SURFEIT IN CONCEIVING JOY. 0004031IF ALL THE CRYSTAL GATES OF JOVE'S HIGH COURT 0004040WERE OPENED WIDE, AND I MIGHT ENTER IN 0004050TO SEE THE STATE AND MAJESTY OF HEAVEN, 0004060IT COULD NOT MORE DELIGHT ME THAN YOUR SIGHT. 0004070NOW WILL WE BANQUET ON THESE PLAINS AWHILE, 0004080AND AFTER MARCH TO TURKEY WITH OUR CAMP, 0004090IN NUMBER MORE THAN ARE THE DROPS THAT FALL 0004100WHEN BOREAS RENTS A THOUSAND SWELLING CLOUDS. 0004110AND PROUD ORCANES OF NATOLIA 0004120WITH ALL HIS VICEROYS SHALL BE SO AFRAID, 0004130THAT THOUGH THE STONES, AS AT DEUCALION'S FLOOD, 0004140WERE TURNED TO MEN, HE SHOULD BE OVERCOME. 0004150SUCH LAVISH WILL I MAKE OF TURKISH BLOOD, 0004160THAT JOVE SHALL SEND HIS WINGED MESSENGER 0004170TO BID ME SHEATHE MY SWORD AND LEAVE THE FIELD; 0004180THE SUN, UNABLE TO SUSTAIN THE SIGHT, 0004190SHALL HIDE HIS HEAD IN THETIS' WATERY LAP, 0004200AND LEAVE HIS STEEDS TO FAIR BOOTES' CHARGE; 0004210FOR HALF THE WORLD SHALL PERISH IN THIS FIGHT. 0004220BUT NOW, MY FRIENDS, LET ME EXAMINE YE; 0004230HOW HAVE YE SPENT YOUR ABSENT TIME FROM ME? 0004240MY LORD, OUR MEN OF BARBARY HAVE MARCHED 0004250FOUR HUNDRED MILES WITH ARMOUR ON THEIR BACKS, 0004260AND LAIN IN LEAGUER FIFTEEN MONTHS AND MORE; 0004270FOR, SINCE WE LEFT YOU AT THE SOLDAN'S COURT, 0004280WE HAVE SUBDUED THE SOUTHERN GUALLATIA 0004290AND ALL THE LAND UNTO THE COAST OF SPAIN. 0004300WE KEPT THE NARROW STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR, 0004310AND MADE CANARIA CALL US KINGS AND LORDS: 0004320YET NEVER DID THEY RECREATE THEMSELVES, 0004330OR CEASE ONE DAY FROM WAR AND HOT ALARMS; 0004340AND THEREFORE LET THEM REST AWHILE, MY LORD. 0004350THEY SHALL, CASANE, AND IT IS TIME, IN FAITH. 0004360AND I HAVE MARCHED ALONG THE RIVER NILE 0004370TO MACHDA, WHERE THE MIGHTY CHRISTIAN PRIEST, 0004380CALLED JOHN THE GREAT, SITS IN A MILK-WHITE ROBE, 0004390WHOSE TRIPLE MITRE I DID TAKE BY FORCE, 0004400AND MADE HIM SWEAR OBEDIENCE TO MY CROWN. 0004410FROM THENCE UNTO CAZATES DID I MARCH, 0004420WHERE AMAZONIANS MET ME IN THE FIELD, 0004430WITH WHOM (BEING WOMEN), I VOUCHSAFED A LEAGUE, 0004440AND WITH MY POWER DID MARCH TO ZANZIBAR, 0004450THE WESTERN PART OF AFRIC, WHERE I VIEWED 0004460THE ETHIOPIAN SEA, RIVERS AND LAKES, 0004461BUT NEITHER MAN NOR CHILD IN ALL THE LAND. 0004470THEREFORE I TOOK MY COURSE TO MANICO, 0004480WHERE, UNRESISTED, I REMOVED MY CAMP; 0004490AND, BY THE COAST OF BYATHER, AT LAST 0004500I CAME TO CUBAR, WHERE THE NEGROES DWELL, 0004510AND, CONQUERING THAT, MADE HASTE TO NUBIA. 0004520THERE, HAVING SACKED BORNO, THE KINGLY SEAT, 0004530I TOOK THE KING AND LED HIM BOUND IN CHAINS 0004540UNTO DAMASCUS, WHERE I STAYED BEFORE. 0004550WELL DONE, TECHELLES. WHAT SAITH THERIDAMAS? 0004560I LEFT THE CONFINES AND THE BOUNDS OF AFRIC, 0004570AND MADE A VOYAGE INTO EUROPE, 0004580WHERE, BY THE RIVER TYROS, I SUBDUED 0004590STOKA, PADALIA, AND CODEMIA; 0004600THEN CROSSED THE SEA AND CAME TO OBLIA 0004610AND NIGRA SILVA, WHERE THE DEVILS DANCE, 0004620WHICH, IN DESPITE OF THEM, I SET ON FIRE. 0004630FROM THENCE I CROSSED THE GULF CALLED BY THE NAME 0004640MARE MAJORE OF THE INHABITANTS. 0004650YET SHALL MY SOLDIERS MAKE NO PERIOD 0004660UNTIL NATOLIA KNEEL BEFORE YOUR FEET. 0004670THEN WILL WE TRIUMPH, BANQUET, AND CAROUSE. 0004680COOKS SHALL HAVE PENSIONS TO PROVIDE US CATES 0004690AND GLUT US WITH THE DAINTIES OF THE WORLD; 0004700LACHRYMA CHRISTI AND CALABRIAN WINES 0004710SHALL COMMON SOLDIERS DRINK IN QUAFFING BOWLS, 0004720AY, LIQUID GOLD, WHEN WE HAVE CONQUERED HIM, 0004730MINGLED WITH CORAL AND WITH ORIENT PEARL. 0004740COME, LET US BANQUET AND CAROUSE THE WHILES. 0004750NOW SAY, MY LORDS OF BUDA AND BOHEMIA, 0004760WHAT MOTION IS IT THAT INFLAMES YOUR THOUGHTS, 0004770AND STIRS YOUR VALOURS TO SUCH SUDDEN ARMS? 0004780YOUR MAJESTY REMEMBERS, I AM SURE, 0004790WHAT CRUEL SLAUGHTER OF OUR CHRISTIAN BLOODS 0004800THESE HEATHENISH TURKS AND PAGANS LATELY MADE 0004810BETWIXT THE CITY ZULA AND DANUBIUS; 0004820HOW THROUGH THE MIDST OF VARNA AND BULGARIA, 0004830AND ALMOST TO THE VERY WALLS OF ROME, 0004840THEY HAVE, NOT LONG SINCE, MASSACRED OUR CAMP. 0004850IT RESTETH NOW, THEN, THAT YOUR MAJESTY 0004851TAKE ALL ADVANTAGES OF TIME AND POWER 0004860AND WORK REVENGE UPON THESE INFIDELS. 0004870YOUR HIGHNESS KNOWS, FOR TAMBURLAINE'S REPAIR, 0004880THAT STRIKES A TERROR TO ALL TURKISH HEARTS, 0004890NATOLIA HATH DISMISSED THE GREATEST PART 0004900OF ALL HIS ARMY PITCHED AGAINST OUR POWER 0004910BETWIXT CUTHEIA AND ORMINIUS' MOUNT, 0004920AND SENT THEM MARCHING UP TO BELGASAR, 0004930ACANTHA, ANTIOCH, AND CAESAREA, 0004940TO AID THE KINGS OF SORIA AND JERUSALEM. 0004950NOW, THEN, MY LORD, ADVANTAGE TAKE HEREOF 0004960AND ISSUE SUDDENLY UPON THE REST, 0004970THAT IN THE FORTUNE OF THEIR OVERTHROW 0004980WE MAY DISCOURAGE ALL THE PAGAN TROOP 0004990THAT DARE ATTEMPT TO WAR WITH CHRISTIANS. 0005000BUT CALLS NOT THEN YOUR GRACE TO MEMORY 0005010THE LEAGUE WE LATELY MADE WITH KING ORCANES, 0005020CONFIRMED BY OATH AND ARTICLES OF PEACE, 0005030AND CALLING CHRIST FOR RECORD OF OUR TRUTHS? 0005040THIS SHOULD BE TREACHERY AND VIOLENCE 0005050AGAINST THE GRACE OF OUR PROFESSION. 0005060NO WHIT, MY LORD; FOR WITH SUCH INFIDELS, 0005070IN WHOM NO FAITH NOR TRUE RELIGION RESTS, 0005080WE ARE NOT BOUND TO THOSE ACCOMPLISHMENTS 0005090THE HOLY LAWS OF CHRISTENDOM ENJOIN; 0005100BUT AS THE FAITH WHICH THEY PROFANELY PLIGHT 0005110IS NOT BY NECESSARY POLICY 0005120TO BE ESTEEMED ASSURANCE FOR OURSELVES, 0005130SO WHAT WE VOW TO THEM SHOULD NOT INFRINGE 0005140OUR LIBERTY OF ARMS AND VICTORY. 0005150THOUGH I CONFESS THE OATHS THEY UNDERTAKE 0005160BREED LITTLE STRENGTH TO OUR SECURITY, 0005170YET THOSE INFIRMITIES THAT THUS DEFAME 0005180THEIR FAITHS, THEIR HONOURS, AND THEIR RELIGION 0005190SHOULD NOT GIVE US PRESUMPTION TO THE LIKE. 0005200OUR FAITHS ARE SOUND, AND MUST BE CONSUMMATE, 0005210RELIGIOUS, RIGHTEOUS, AND INVIOLATE. 0005220ASSURE YOUR GRACE, IT IS SUPERSTITION 0005230TO STAND SO STRICTLY ON DISPENSIVE FAITH; 0005240AND SHOULD WE LOSE THE OPPORTUNITY 0005250THAT GOD HATH GIVEN TO VENGE OUR CHRISTIANS' DEATH 0005260AND SCOURGE THEIR FOUL BLASPHEMOUS PAGANISM, 0005270AS FELL TO SAUL, TO BALAAM, AND THE REST, 0005280THAT WOULD NOT KILL AND CURSE AT GOD'S COMMAND, 0005290SO SURELY WILL THE VENGEANCE OF THE HIGHEST, 0005300AND JEALOUS ANGER OF HIS FEARFUL ARM, 0005301BE POURED WITH RIGOUR ON OUR SINFUL HEADS, 0005310IF WE NEGLECT THIS OFFERED VICTORY. 0005320THEN ARM, MY LORDS, AND ISSUE SUDDENLY, 0005330GIVING COMMANDMENT TO OUR GENERAL HOST, 0005340WITH EXPEDITION TO ASSAIL THE PAGAN, 0005350AND TAKE THE VICTORY OUR GOD HATH GIVEN. 0005360GAZELLUS, URIBASSA, AND THE REST, 0005370NOW WILL WE MARCH FROM PROUD ORMINIUS' MOUNT 0005380TO FAIR NATOLIA, WHERE OUR NEIGHBOUR KINGS 0005390EXPECT OUR POWER AND OUR ROYAL PRESENCE, 0005400TO ENCOUNTER WITH THE CRUEL TAMBURLAINE, 0005410THAT NIGH LARISSA SWAYS A MIGHTY HOST, 0005420AND WITH THE THUNDER OF HIS MARTIAL TOOLS 0005430MAKES EARTHQUAKES IN THE HEARTS OF MEN AND HEAVEN. 0005440AND NOW COME WE TO MAKE HIS SINEWS SHAKE 0005450WITH GREATER POWER THAN ERST HIS PRIDE HATH FELT, 0005460AN HUNDRED KINGS, BY SCORES, WILL BID HIM ARMS, 0005470AND HUNDRED THOUSANDS SUBJECTS TO EACH SCORE; 0005480WHICH, IF A SHOWER OF WOUNDING THUNDERBOLTS 0005490SHOULD BREAK OUT OF THE BOWELS OF THE CLOUDS 0005500AND FALL AS THICK AS HAIL UPON OUR HEADS, 0005510IN PARTIAL AID OF THAT PROUD SCYTHIAN, 0005520YET SHOULD OUR COURAGES AND STEELED CRESTS, 0005530AND NUMBERS MORE THAN INFINITE OF MEN, 0005540BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND AND CONQUER HIM. 0005550METHINKS I SEE HOW GLAD THE CHRISTIAN KING 0005560IS MADE FOR JOY OF YOUR ADMITTED TRUCE, 0005570THAT COULD NOT BUT BEFORE BE TERRIFIED 0005580WITH UNACQUAINTED POWER OF OUR HOST. 0005590ARM, DREAD SOVEREIGN, AND MY NOBLE LORDS! 0005600THE TREACHEROUS ARMY OF THE CHRISTIANS, 0005610TAKING ADVANTAGE OF YOUR SLENDER POWER, 0005620COMES MARCHING ON US, AND DETERMINES STRAIGHT 0005630TO BID US BATTLE FOR OUR DEAREST LIVES. 0005640TRAITORS, VILLAINS, DAMNED CHRISTIANS! 0005650HAVE I NOT HERE THE ARTICLES OF PEACE 0005660AND SOLEMN COVENANTS WE HAVE BOTH CONFIRMED, 0005670HE BY HIS CHRIST, AND I BY MAHOMET? 0005680HELL AND CONFUSION LIGHT UPON THEIR HEADS, 0005690THAT WITH SUCH TREASON SEEK OUR OVERTHROW, 0005700AND CARES SO LITTLE FOR THEIR PROPHET CHRIST! 0005701CAN THERE BE SUCH DECEIT IN CHRISTIANS, 0005710OR TREASON IN THE FLESHLY HEART OF MAN, 0005720WHOSE SHAPE IS FIGURE OF THE HIGHEST GOD? 0005730THEN IF THERE BE A CHRIST, AS CHRISTIANS SAY, 0005740BUT IN THEIR DEEDS DENY HIM FOR THEIR CHRIST, 0005750IF HE BE SON TO EVERLIVING JOVE, 0005760AND HATH THE POWER OF HIS OUTSTRETCHED ARM, 0005770IF HE BE JEALOUS OF HIS NAME AND HONOUR 0005780AS IS OUR HOLY PROPHET MAHOMET, 0005790TAKE HERE THESE PAPERS AS OUR SACRIFICE 0005800AND WITNESS OF THY SERVANT'S PERJURY. 0005810OPEN, THOU SHINING VEIL OF CYNTHIA, 0005820AND MAKE A PASSAGE FROM THE EMPYREAL HEAVEN, 0005830THAT HE THAT SITS ON HIGH AND NEVER SLEEPS, 0005840NOR IN ONE PLACE IS CIRCUMSCRIPTIBLE, 0005850BUT EVERYWHERE FILLS EVERY CONTINENT 0005860WITH STRANGE INFUSION OF HIS SACRED VIGOUR, 0005870MAY, IN HIS ENDLESS POWER AND PURITY, 0005880BEHOLD AND VENGE THIS TRAITOR'S PERJURY! 0005890THOU CHRIST THAT ART ESTEEMED OMNIPOTENT, 0005900IF THOU WILT PROVE THYSELF A PERFECT GOD, 0005910WORTHY THE WORSHIP OF ALL FAITHFUL HEARTS, 0005920BE NOW REVENGED UPON THIS TRAITOR'S SOUL, 0005930AND MAKE THE POWER I HAVE LEFT BEHIND 0005940(TOO LITTLE TO DEFEND OUR GUILTLESS LIVES) 0005950SUFFICIENT TO DISCOMFORT AND CONFOUND 0005960THE TRUSTLESS FORCE OF THOSE FALSE CHRISTIANS. 0005970TO ARMS, MY LORDS! ON CHRIST STILL LET US CRY. 0005980IF THERE BE CHRIST, WE SHALL HAVE VICTORY. 0005990DISCOMFITED IS ALL THE CHRISTIAN HOST, 0006000AND GOD HATH THUNDERED VENGEANCE FROM ON HIGH, 0006010FOR MY ACCURSED AND HATEFUL PERJURY. 0006020O JUST AND DREADFUL PUNISHER OF SIN, 0006030LET THE DISHONOUR OF THE PAINS I FEEL 0006040IN THIS MY MORTAL WELL-DESERVED WOUND 0006050END ALL MY PENANCE IN MY SUDDEN DEATH! 0006060AND LET THIS DEATH, WHEREIN TO SIN I DIE, 0006070CONCEIVE A SECOND LIFE IN ENDLESS MERCY! 0006080NOW LIE THE CHRISTIANS BATHING IN THEIR BLOODS, 0006090AND CHRIST OR MAHOMET HATH BEEN MY FRIEND. 0006100SEE HERE THE PERJURED TRAITOR HUNGARY, 0006110BLOODY AND BREATHLESS FOR HIS VILLAINY. 0006111NOW SHALL HIS BARBAROUS BODY BE A PREY 0006120TO BEASTS AND FOWLS, AND ALL THE WINDS SHALL BREATHE 0006130THROUGH SHADY LEAVES OF EVERY SENSELESS TREE, 0006140MURMURS AND HISSES FOR HIS HEINOUS SIN. 0006150NOW SCALDS HIS SOUL IN THE TARTARIAN STREAMS 0006160AND FEEDS UPON THE BANEFUL TREE OF HELL, 0006170THAT ZOACUM, THAT FRUIT OF BITTERNESS, 0006180THAT IN THE MIDST OF FIRE IS ENGRAFFED, 0006190YET FLOURISHETH AS FLORA IN HER PRIDE, 0006200WITH APPLES LIKE THE HEADS OF DAMNED FIENDS. 0006210THE DEVILS THERE, IN CHAINS OF QUENCHLESS FLAME, 0006220SHALL LEAD HIS SOUL THROUGH ORCUS' BURNING GULF, 0006230FROM PAIN TO PAIN, WHOSE CHANGE SHALL NEVER END. 0006240WHAT SAYEST THOU YET, GAZELLUS, TO HIS FOIL, 0006250WHICH WE REFERRED TO JUSTICE OF HIS CHRIST 0006260AND TO HIS POWER, WHICH HERE APPEARS AS FULL 0006270AS RAYS OF CYNTHIA TO THE CLEAREST SIGHT? 0006280IT IS BUT THE FORTUNE OF THE WARS, MY LORD, 0006290WHOSE POWER IS OFTEN PROVED A MIRACLE. 0006300YET IN MY THOUGHTS SHALL CHRIST BE HONOURED, 0006310NOT DOING MAHOMET AN INJURY, 0006320WHOSE POWER HAD SHARE IN THIS OUR VICTORY; 0006330AND SINCE THIS MISCREANT HATH DISGRACED HIS FAITH 0006340AND DIED A TRAITOR BOTH TO HEAVEN AND EARTH, 0006350WE WILL BOTH WATCH AND WARD SHALL KEEP HIS TRUNK 0006360AMIDST THESE PLAINS FOR FOWLS TO PREY UPON. 0006370GO, URIBASSA, GIVE IT STRAIGHT IN CHARGE. 0006380I WILL, MY LORD. 0006390AND NOW, GAZELLUS, LET US HASTE AND MEET 0006400OUR ARMY, AND OUR BROTHER OF JERUSALEM, 0006410OF SORIA, TREBIZON, AND AMASIA, 0006420AND HAPPILY, WITH FULL NATOLIAN BOWLS 0006430OF GREEKISH WINE, NOW LET US CELEBRATE 0006440OUR HAPPY CONQUEST AND HIS ANGRY FATE. 0006450BLACK IS THE BEAUTY OF THE BRIGHTEST DAY; 0006460THE GOLDEN BALL OF HEAVEN'S ETERNAL FIRE, 0006470THAT DANCED WITH GLORY ON THE SILVER WAVES, 0006471NOW WANTS THE FUEL THAT INFLAMED HIS BEAMS, 0006480AND ALL WITH FAINTNESS AND FOR FOUL DISGRACE, 0006490HE BINDS HIS TEMPLES WITH A FROWNING CLOUD, 0006500READY TO DARKEN EARTH WITH ENDLESS NIGHT. 0006510ZENOCRATE, THAT GAVE HIM LIGHT AND LIFE, 0006520WHOSE EYES SHOT FIRE FROM THEIR IVORY BOWERS, 0006530AND TEMPERED EVERY SOUL WITH LIVELY HEAT, 0006540NOW BY THE MALICE OF THE ANGRY SKIES, 0006550WHOSE JEALOUSY ADMITS NO SECOND MATE, 0006560DRAWS IN THE COMFORT OF HER LATEST BREATH, 0006570ALL DAZZLED WITH THE HELLISH MISTS OF DEATH. 0006580NOW WALK THE ANGELS ON THE WALLS OF HEAVEN, 0006590AS SENTINELS TO WARN THE IMMORTAL SOULS 0006600TO ENTERTAIN DIVINE ZENOCRATE. 0006610APOLLO, CYNTHIA, AND THE CEASELESS LAMPS 0006620THAT GENTLY LOOKED UPON THIS LOATHSOME EARTH, 0006630SHINE DOWNWARDS NOW NO MORE, BUT DECK THE HEAVENS 0006640TO ENTERTAIN DIVINE ZENOCRATE. 0006650THE CRYSTAL SPRINGS, WHOSE TASTE ILLUMINATES 0006660REFINED EYES WITH AN ETERNAL SIGHT, 0006670LIKE TRIED SILVER RUN THROUGH PARADISE 0006680TO ENTERTAIN DIVINE ZENOCRATE. 0006690THE CHERUBINS AND HOLY SERAPHINS, 0006700THAT SING AND PLAY BEFORE THE KING OF KINGS, 0006710USE ALL THEIR VOICES AND THEIR INSTRUMENTS 0006720TO ENTERTAIN DIVINE ZENOCRATE. 0006730AND IN THIS SWEET AND CURIOUS HARMONY, 0006740THE GOD THAT TUNES THIS MUSIC TO OUR SOULS 0006750HOLDS OUT HIS HAND IN HIGHEST MAJESTY 0006760TO ENTERTAIN DIVINE ZENOCRATE. 0006770THEN LET SOME HOLY TRANCE CONVEY MY THOUGHTS 0006780UP TO THE PALACE OF THE EMPYREAL HEAVEN, 0006790THAT THIS MY LIFE MAY BE AS SHORT TO ME 0006800AS ARE THE DAYS OF SWEET ZENOCRATE. 0006810PHYSICIANS, WILL NO PHYSIC DO HER GOOD? 0006820<1PHYS >MY LORD, YOUR MAJESTY SHALL SOON PERCEIVE, 0006830AND IF SHE PASS THIS FIT, THE WORST IS PAST. 0006840TELL ME, HOW FARES MY FAIR ZENOCRATE? 0006850I FARE, MY LORD, AS OTHER EMPRESSES, 0006860THAT, WHEN THIS FRAIL AND TRANSITORY FLESH 0006870HATH SUCKED THE MEASURE OF THAT VITAL AIR 0006880THAT FEEDS THE BODY WITH HIS DATED HEALTH, 0006890WANES WITH ENFORCED AND NECESSARY CHANGE. 0006900MAY NEVER SUCH A CHANGE TRANSFORM MY LOVE, 0006910IN WHOSE SWEET BEING I REPOSE MY LIFE, 0006920WHOSE HEAVENLY PRESENCE, BEAUTIFIED WITH HEALTH, 0006921GIVES LIGHT TO PHOEBUS AND THE FIXED STARS, 0006930WHOSE ABSENCE MAKES THE SUN AND MOON AS DARK 0006940AS WHEN, OPPOSED IN ONE DIAMETER, 0006950THEIR SPHERES ARE MOUNTED ON THE SERPENT'S HEAD, 0006960OR ELSE DESCENDED TO HIS WINDING TRAIN. 0006970LIVE STILL, MY LOVE, AND SO CONSERVE MY LIFE, 0006980OR, DYING, BE THE AUTHOR OF MY DEATH. 0006990LIVE STILL, MY LORD! O, LET MY SOVEREIGN LIVE! 0007000AND SOONER LET THE FIERY ELEMENT 0007010DISSOLVE AND MAKE YOUR KINGDOM IN THE SKY, 0007020THAN THIS BASE EARTH SHOULD SHROUD YOUR MAJESTY; 0007030FOR, SHOULD I BUT SUSPECT YOUR DEATH BY MINE, 0007040THE COMFORT OF MY FUTURE HAPPINESS 0007050AND HOPE TO MEET YOUR HIGHNESS IN THE HEAVENS, 0007060TURNED TO DESPAIR, WOULD BREAK MY WRETCHED BREAST, 0007070AND FURY WOULD CONFOUND MY PRESENT REST. 0007080BUT LET ME DIE, MY LOVE; YES, LET ME DIE; 0007090WITH LOVE AND PATIENCE LET YOUR TRUE LOVE DIE. 0007100YOUR GRIEF AND FURY HURTS MY SECOND LIFE. 0007110YET LET ME KISS MY LORD BEFORE I DIE, 0007120AND LET ME DIE WITH KISSING OF MY LORD. 0007130BUT SINCE MY LIFE IS LENGTHENED YET AWHILE, 0007140LET ME TAKE LEAVE OF THESE MY LOVING SONS, 0007150AND OF MY LORDS, WHOSE TRUE NOBILITY 0007160HAVE MERITED MY LATEST MEMORY. 0007170SWEET SONS, FAREWELL! IN DEATH RESEMBLE ME, 0007180AND IN YOUR LIVES YOUR FATHER'S EXCELLENCY. 0007190SOME MUSIC, AND MY FIT WILL CEASE, MY LORD. 0007200PROUD FURY AND INTOLERABLE FIT, 0007210THAT DARES TORMENT THE BODY OF MY LOVE 0007220AND SCOURGE THE SCOURGE OF THE IMMORTAL GOD! 0007230NOW ARE THOSE SPHERES, WHERE CUPID USED TO SIT, 0007240WOUNDING THE WORLD WITH WONDER AND WITH LOVE, 0007250SADLY SUPPLIED WITH PALE AND GHASTLY DEATH, 0007260WHOSE DARTS DO PIERCE THE CENTRE OF MY SOUL. 0007270HER SACRED BEAUTY HATH ENCHANTED HEAVEN, 0007280AND HAD SHE LIVED BEFORE THE SIEGE OF TROY, 0007290HELEN, WHOSE BEAUTY SUMMONED GREECE TO ARMS 0007300AND DREW A THOUSAND SHIPS TO TENEDOS, 0007310HAD NOT BEEN NAMED IN HOMER'S ILIADS; 0007320HER NAME HAD BEEN IN EVERY LINE HE WROTE. 0007330OR, HAD THOSE WANTON POETS, FOR WHOSE BIRTH 0007340OLD ROME WAS PROUD, BUT GAZED AWHILE ON HER, 0007350NOR LESBIA NOR CORINNA HAD BEEN NAMED; 0007351ZENOCRATE HAD BEEN THE ARGUMENT 0007360OF EVERY EPIGRAM OR ELEGY. 0007370WHAT, IS SHE DEAD? TECHELLES, DRAW THY SWORD 0007380AND WOUND THE EARTH, THAT IT MAY CLEAVE IN TWAIN 0007390AND WE DESCEND INTO THE INFERNAL VAULTS, 0007400TO HALE THE FATAL SISTERS BY THE HAIR 0007410AND THROW THEM IN THE TRIPLE MOAT OF HELL, 0007420FOR TAKING HENCE MY FAIR ZENOCRATE. 0007430CASANE AND THERIDAMAS, TO ARMS! 0007440RAISE CAVALIEROS HIGHER THAN THE CLOUDS, 0007450AND WITH THE CANNON BREAK THE FRAME OF HEAVEN. 0007460BATTER THE SHINING PALACE OF THE SUN, 0007470AND SHIVER ALL THE STARRY FIRMAMENT, 0007480FOR AMOROUS JOVE HATH SNATCHED MY LOVE FROM HENCE, 0007490MEANING TO MAKE HER STATELY QUEEN OF HEAVEN. 0007500WHAT GOD SOEVER HOLDS THEE IN HIS ARMS, 0007510GIVING THEE NECTAR AND AMBROSIA, 0007520BEHOLD ME HERE, DIVINE ZENOCRATE, 0007530RAVING, IMPATIENT, DESPERATE, AND MAD, 0007540BREAKING MY STEELED LANCE, WITH WHICH I BURST 0007550THE RUSTY BEAMS OF JANUS' TEMPLE DOORS, 0007560LETTING OUT DEATH AND TYRANNIZING WAR, 0007570TO MARCH WITH ME UNDER THIS BLOODY FLAG! 0007580AND, IF THOU PITIEST TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT, 0007590COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, AND LIVE WITH ME AGAIN! 0007600AH, GOOD MY LORD, BE PATIENT! SHE IS DEAD, 0007610AND ALL THIS RAGING CANNOT MAKE HER LIVE. 0007620IF WORDS MIGHT SERVE, OUR VOICE HATH RENT THE AIR; 0007630IF TEARS, OUR EYES HAVE WATERED ALL THE EARTH; 0007640IF GRIEF, OUR MURDERED HEARTS HAVE STRAINED FORTH 0007650BLOOD. 0007660NOTHING PREVAILS, FOR SHE IS DEAD, MY LORD. 0007670FOR SHE IS DEAD! THY WORDS DO PIERCE MY SOUL! 0007680AH, SWEET THERIDAMAS, SAY SO NO MORE. 0007690THOUGH SHE BE DEAD, YET LET ME THINK SHE LIVES 0007700AND FEED MY MIND THAT DIES FOR WANT OF HER. 0007710WHEREVER HER SOUL BE, THOU SHALT STAY WITH ME, 0007720EMBALMED WITH CASSIA, AMBERGRIS, AND MYRRH, 0007730NOT LAPPED IN LEAD, BUT IN A SHEET OF GOLD, 0007740AND TILL I DIE THOU SHALT NOT BE INTERRED. 0007750THEN IN AS RICH A TOMB AS MAUSOLUS' 0007760WE BOTH WILL REST AND HAVE ONE EPITAPH 0007770WRIT IN AS MANY SEVERAL LANGUAGES 0007771AS I HAVE CONQUERED KINGDOMS WITH MY SWORD. 0007780THIS CURSED TOWN WILL I CONSUME WITH FIRE, 0007790BECAUSE THIS PLACE BEREFT ME OF MY LOVE; 0007800THE HOUSES, BURNT, WILL LOOK AS IF THEY MOURNED; 0007810AND HERE WILL I SET UP HER STATURE 0007820AND MARCH ABOUT IT WITH MY MOURNING CAMP, 0007830DROOPING AND PINING FOR ZENOCRATE. 0007850CALLAPINUS CYRICELIBES, OTHERWISE CYBELIUS, SON AND 0007860SUCCESSIVE HEIR TO THE LATE MIGHTY EMPEROR BAJAZETH, 0007870BY THE AID OF GOD AND HIS FRIEND MAHOMET, EMPEROR OF 0007880NATOLIA, JERUSALEM, TREBIZON, SORIA, AMASIA, THRACIA, 0007890ILLYRIA, CARMONIA, AND ALL THE HUNDRED AND THIRTY 0007900KINGDOMS LATE CONTRIBUTORY TO HIS MIGHTY FATHER. 0007910LONG LIVE CALLAPINUS, EMPEROR OF TURKEY! 0007920THRICE WORTHY KINGS, OF NATOLIA AND THE REST, 0007930I WILL REQUITE YOUR ROYAL GRATITUDES 0007940WITH ALL THE BENEFITS MY EMPIRE YIELDS; 0007950AND WERE THE SINEWS OF THE IMPERIAL SEAT 0007960SO KNIT AND STRENGTHENED AS WHEN BAJAZETH, 0007970MY ROYAL LORD AND FATHER, FILLED THE THRONE, 0007980WHOSE CURSED FATE HATH SO DISMEMBERED IT, 0007990THEN SHOULD YOU SEE THIS THIEF OF SCYTHIA, 0008000THIS PROUD USURPING KING OF PERSIA, 0008010DO US SUCH HONOUR AND SUPREMACY, 0008020BEARING THE VENGEANCE OF OUR FATHER'S WRONGS, 0008030AS ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BLOT OUR DIGNITIES 0008040OUT OF THE BOOK OF BASE-BORN INFAMIES. 0008050AND NOW I DOUBT NOT BUT YOUR ROYAL CARES 0008060HATH SO PROVIDED FOR THIS CURSED FOE, 0008070THAT, SINCE THE HEIR OF MIGHTY BAJAZETH 0008080(AN EMPEROR SO HONOURED FOR HIS VIRTUES) 0008090REVIVES THE SPIRITS OF TRUE TURKISH HEARTS, 0008100IN GRIEVOUS MEMORY OF HIS FATHER'S SHAME, 0008110WE SHALL NOT NEED TO NOURISH ANY DOUBT, 0008120BUT THAT PROUD FORTUNE, WHO HATH FOLLOWED LONG 0008121THE MARTIAL SWORD OF MIGHTY TAMBURLAINE, 0008130WILL NOW RETAIN HER OLD INCONSTANCY 0008140AND RAISE OUR HONOURS TO AS HIGH A PITCH, 0008150IN THIS OUR STRONG AND FORTUNATE ENCOUNTER; 0008160FOR SO HATH HEAVEN PROVIDED MY ESCAPE 0008170FROM ALL THE CRUELTY MY SOUL SUSTAINED, 0008180BY THIS MY FRIENDLY KEEPER'S HAPPY MEANS, 0008190THAT JOVE, SURCHARGED WITH PITY OF OUR WRONGS, 0008200WILL POUR IT DOWN IN SHOWERS ON OUR HEADS, 0008210SCOURGING THE PRIDE OF CURSED TAMBURLAINE. 0008220I HAVE A HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN IN ARMS, 0008230SOME, THAT IN CONQUEST OF THE PERJURED CHRISTIAN, 0008240BEING A HANDFUL TO A MIGHTY HOST, 0008250THINK THEM IN NUMBER YET SUFFICIENT 0008260TO DRINK THE RIVER NILE OR EUPHRATES, 0008270AND FOR THEIR POWER ENOW TO WIN THE WORLD. 0008280AND I AS MANY FROM JERUSALEM, 0008290JUDAEA, GAZA, AND SCALONIANS' BOUNDS, 0008300THAT ON MOUNT SINAI, WITH THEIR ENSIGNS SPREAD, 0008310LOOK LIKE THE PARTI-COLOURED CLOUDS OF HEAVEN 0008320THAT SHOW FAIR WEATHER TO THE NEIGHBOUR MORN. 0008330AND I AS MANY BRING FROM TREBIZON, 0008340CHIO, FAMASTRO, AND AMASIA, 0008350ALL BORDERING ON THE MARE MAJOR SEA, 0008360RISO, SANCINA, AND THE BORDERING TOWNS 0008370THAT TOUCH THE END OF FAMOUS EUPHRATES, 0008380WHOSE COURAGES ARE KINDLED WITH THE FLAMES 0008390THE CURSED SCYTHIAN SETS ON ALL THEIR TOWNS, 0008400AND VOW TO BURN THE VILLAIN'S CRUEL HEART. 0008410FROM SORIA WITH SEVENTY THOUSAND STRONG, 0008420TAKEN FROM ALEPPO, SOLDINO, TRIPOLI, 0008430AND SO UNTO MY CITY OF DAMASCUS, 0008440I MARCH TO MEET AND AID MY NEIGHBOUR KINGS, 0008450ALL WHICH WILL JOIN AGAINST THIS TAMBURLAINE 0008460AND BRING HIM CAPTIVE TO YOUR HIGHNESS' FEET. 0008470OUR BATTLE THEN, IN MARTIAL MANNER PITCHED, 0008480ACCORDING TO OUR ANCIENT USE, SHALL BEAR 0008490THE FIGURE OF THE SEMICIRCLED MOON, 0008500WHOSE HORNS SHALL SPRINKLE THROUGH THE TAINTED AIR 0008510THE POISONED BRAINS OF THIS PROUD SCYTHIAN. 0008520WELL, THEN, MY NOBLE LORDS, FOR THIS MY FRIEND 0008530THAT FREED ME FROM THE BONDAGE OF MY FOE, 0008540I THINK IT REQUISITE AND HONOURABLE 0008550TO KEEP MY PROMISE AND TO MAKE HIM KING, 0008560THAT IS A GENTLEMAN, I KNOW, AT LEAST. 0008561THAT IS NO MATTER, SIR, FOR BEING A KING, 0008570FOR TAMBURLAINE CAME UP OF NOTHING. 0008580YOUR MAJESTY MAY CHOOSE SOME APPOINTED TIME, 0008590PERFORMING ALL YOUR PROMISE TO THE FULL. 0008600IT IS NOUGHT FOR YOUR MAJESTY TO GIVE A KINGDOM. 0008610THEN WILL I SHORTLY KEEP MY PROMISE, ALMEDA. 0008620WHY, I THANK YOUR MAJESTY. 0008630SO BURN THE TURRETS OF THIS CURSED TOWN, 0008640FLAME TO THE HIGHEST REGION OF THE AIR, 0008650AND KINDLE HEAPS OF EXHALATIONS 0008660THAT, BEING FIERY METEORS, MAY PRESAGE 0008670DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TO THE INHABITANTS! 0008680OVER MY ZENITH HANG A BLAZING STAR, 0008690THAT MAY ENDURE TILL HEAVEN BE DISSOLVED, 0008700FED WITH THE FRESH SUPPLY OF EARTHLY DREGS, 0008710THREATENING A DEATH AND FAMINE TO THIS LAND! 0008720FLYING DRAGONS, LIGHTNING, FEARFUL THUNDER-CLAPS, 0008730SINGE THESE FAIR PLAINS, AND MAKE THEM SEEM AS BLACK 0008740AS IS THE ISLAND WHERE THE FURIES MASK, 0008750COMPASSED WITH LETHE, STYX, AND PHLEGETHON, 0008760BECAUSE MY DEAR ZENOCRATE IS DEAD. 0008770THIS PILLAR, PLACED IN MEMORY OF HER, 0008780WHERE IN ARABIAN, HEBREW, GREEK, IS WRIT, 0008790THIS TOWN BEING BURNT BY TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT, 0008800FORBIDS THE WORLD TO BUILD IT UP AGAIN. 0008810AND HERE THIS MOURNFUL STREAMER SHALL BE PLACED, 0008820WROUGHT WITH THE PERSIAN AND EGYPTIAN ARMS, 0008830TO SIGNIFY SHE WAS A PRINCESS BORN 0008840AND WIFE UNTO THE MONARCH OF THE EAST. 0008850AND HERE THIS TABLE AS A REGISTER 0008860OF ALL HER VIRTUES AND PERFECTIONS. 0008870AND HERE THE PICTURE OF ZENOCRATE, 0008880TO SHOW HER BEAUTY WHICH THE WORLD ADMIRED; 0008890SWEET PICTURE OF DIVINE ZENOCRATE, 0008900THAT, HANGING HERE, WILL DRAW THE GODS FROM HEAVEN 0008910AND CAUSE THE STARS FIXED IN THE SOUTHERN ARC, 0008920(WHOSE LOVELY FACES NEVER ANY VIEWED 0008930THAT HAVE NOT PASSED THE CENTRE'S LATITUDE,) 0008940AS PILGRIMS TRAVEL TO OUR HEMISPHERE, 0008950ONLY TO GAZE UPON ZENOCRATE. 0008951THOU SHALT NOT BEAUTIFY LARISSA PLAINS 0008960BUT KEEP WITHIN THE CIRCLE OF MINE ARMS; 0008970AT EVERY TOWN AND CASTLE I BESIEGE, 0008980THOU SHALT BE SET UPON MY ROYAL TENT; 0008990AND WHEN I MEET AN ARMY IN THE FIELD, 0009000THOSE LOOKS WILL SHED SUCH INFLUENCE IN MY CAMP, 0009010AS IF BELLONA, GODDESS OF THE WAR, 0009020THREW NAKED SWORDS AND SULPHUR BALLS OF FIRE 0009030UPON THE HEADS OF ALL OUR ENEMIES. 0009040AND NOW, MY LORDS, ADVANCE YOUR SPEARS AGAIN. 0009050SORROW NO MORE, MY SWEET CASANE, NOW. 0009060BOYS, LEAVE TO MOURN; THIS TOWN SHALL EVER MOURN, 0009070BEING BURNT TO CINDERS FOR YOUR MOTHER'S DEATH. 0009080IF I HAD WEPT A SEA OF TEARS FOR HER, 0009090IT WOULD NOT EASE THE SORROWS I SUSTAIN. 0009100AS IS THAT TOWN, SO IS MY HEART CONSUMED 0009110WITH GRIEF AND SORROW FOR MY MOTHER'S DEATH. 0009120MY MOTHER'S DEATH HATH MORTIFIED MY MIND, 0009130AND SORROW STOPS THE PASSAGE OF MY SPEECH. 0009140BUT NOW, MY BOYS, LEAVE OFF AND LIST TO ME, 0009150THAT MEAN TO TEACH YOU RUDIMENTS OF WAR. 0009160I WILL HAVE YOU LEARN TO SLEEP UPON THE GROUND, 0009170MARCH IN YOUR ARMOUR THOROUGH WATERY FENS, 0009180SUSTAIN THE SCORCHING HEAT AND FREEZING COLD, 0009190HUNGER AND THIRST, RIGHT ADJUNCTS OF THE WAR. 0009200AND AFTER THIS, TO SCALE A CASTLE WALL, 0009210BESIEGE A FORT, TO UNDERMINE A TOWN, 0009220AND MAKE WHOLE CITIES CAPER IN THE AIR. 0009230THEN NEXT, THE WAY TO FORTIFY YOUR MEN, 0009240IN CHAMPION GROUNDS WHAT FIGURE SERVES YOU BEST, 0009250FOR WHICH THE QUINQUE-ANGLE FORM IS MEET, 0009260BECAUSE THE CORNERS THERE MAY FALL MORE FLAT 0009270WHEREAS THE FORT MAY FITTEST BE ASSAILED, 0009280AND SHARPEST WHERE THE ASSAULT IS DESPERATE. 0009290THE DITCHES MUST BE DEEP, THE COUNTERSCARPS 0009300NARROW AND STEEP, THE WALLS MADE HIGH AND BROAD, 0009310THE BULWARKS AND THE RAMPIRES LARGE AND STRONG, 0009320WITH CAVALIEROS AND THICK COUNTERFORTS, 0009330AND ROOM WITHIN TO LODGE SIX THOUSAND MEN. 0009340IT MUST HAVE PRIVY DITCHES, COUNTERMINES, 0009350AND SECRET ISSUINGS TO DEFEND THE DITCH. 0009360IT MUST HAVE HIGH ARGINS AND COVERED WAYS 0009370TO KEEP THE BULWARK FRONTS FROM BATTERY, 0009380AND PARAPETS TO HIDE THE MUSKETEERS, 0009381CASEMATES TO PLACE THE GREAT ARTILLERY 0009390AND STORE OF ORDNANCE, THAT FROM EVERY FLANK 0009400MAY SCOUR THE OUTWARD CURTAINS OF THE FORT, 0009410DISMOUNT THE CANNON OF THE ADVERSE PART, 0009420MURDER THE FOE, AND SAVE THE WALLS FROM BREACH. 0009430WHEN THIS IS LEARNED FOR SERVICE ON THE LAND, 0009440BY PLAIN AND EASY DEMONSTRATION 0009450I WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO MAKE THE WATER MOUNT, 0009460THAT YOU MAY DRY-FOOT MARCH THROUGH LAKES AND POOLS, 0009470DEEP RIVERS, HAVENS, CREEKS, AND LITTLE SEAS, 0009480AND MAKE A FORTRESS IN THE RAGING WAVES, 0009490FENCED WITH THE CONCAVE OF A MONSTROUS ROCK, 0009500INVINCIBLE BY NATURE OF THE PLACE. 0009510WHEN THIS IS DONE, THEN ARE YE SOLDIERS, 0009520AND WORTHY SONS OF TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT. 0009530MY LORD, BUT THIS IS DANGEROUS TO BE DONE; 0009540WE MAY BE SLAIN OR WOUNDED ERE WE LEARN. 0009550VILLAIN, ART THOU THE SON OF TAMBURLAINE, 0009560AND FEAREST TO DIE, OR WITH A CURTLE-AXE 0009570TO HEW THY FLESH, AND MAKE A GAPING WOUND? 0009580HAST THOU BEHELD A PEAL OF ORDNANCE STRIKE 0009590A RING OF PIKES, MINGLED WITH SHOT AND HORSE, 0009600WHOSE SHATTERED LIMBS, BEING TOSSED AS HIGH AS HEAVEN, 0009610HANG IN THE AIR AS THICK AS SUNNY MOTES, 0009620AND CANST THOU, COWARD, STAND IN FEAR OF DEATH? 0009630HAST THOU NOT SEEN MY HORSEMEN CHARGE THE FOE, 0009640SHOT THROUGH THE ARMS, CUT OVERTHWART THE HANDS, 0009650DYEING THEIR LANCES WITH THEIR STREAMING BLOOD, 0009660AND YET AT NIGHT CAROUSE WITHIN MY TENT, 0009670FILLING THEIR EMPTY VEINS WITH AIRY WINE, 0009680THAT, BEING CONCOCTED, TURNS TO CRIMSON BLOOD, 0009690AND WILT THOU SHUN THE FIELD FOR FEAR OF WOUNDS? 0009700VIEW ME, THY FATHER, THAT HATH CONQUERED KINGS, 0009710AND WITH HIS HOST MARCHED ROUND ABOUT THE EARTH, 0009720QUITE VOID OF SCARS AND CLEAR FROM ANY WOUND, 0009730THAT BY THE WARS LOST NOT A DRAM OF BLOOD, 0009740AND SEE HIM LANCE HIS FLESH TO TEACH YOU ALL. 0009750A WOUND IS NOTHING, BE IT NEVER SO DEEP; 0009760BLOOD IS THE GOD OF WAR'S RICH LIVERY. 0009770NOW LOOK I LIKE A SOLDIER, AND THIS WOUND 0009780AS GREAT A GRACE AND MAJESTY TO ME, 0009790AS IF A CHAIR OF GOLD ENAMELLED, 0009800ENCHASED WITH DIAMONDS, SAPPHIRES, RUBIES, 0009801AND FAIREST PEARL OF WEALTHY INDIA, 0009810WERE MOUNTED HERE UNDER A CANOPY, 0009820AND I SAT DOWN, CLOTHED WITH THE MASSY ROBE 0009830THAT LATE ADORNED THE AFRIC POTENTATE, 0009840WHOM I BROUGHT BOUND UNTO DAMASCUS' WALLS. 0009850COME, BOYS, AND WITH YOUR FINGERS SEARCH MY WOUND, 0009860AND IN MY BLOOD WASH ALL YOUR HANDS AT ONCE, 0009870WHILE I SIT SMILING TO BEHOLD THE SIGHT. 0009880NOW, MY BOYS, WHAT THINK YOU OF A WOUND? 0009890I KNOW NOT WHAT I SHOULD THINK OF IT. 0009900METHINKS IT IS A PITIFUL SIGHT. 0009910IT IS NOTHING. GIVE ME A WOUND, FATHER. 0009920AND ME ANOTHER, MY LORD. 0009930COME, SIRRAH, GIVE ME YOUR ARM. 0009940HERE, FATHER, CUT IT BRAVELY, AS YOU DID YOUR OWN. 0009950IT SHALL SUFFICE THOU DAREST ABIDE A WOUND. 0009960MY BOY, THOU SHALT NOT LOSE A DROP OF BLOOD 0009970BEFORE WE MEET THE ARMY OF THE TURK; 0009980BUT THEN RUN DESPERATE THROUGH THE THICKEST THRONGS, 0009990DREADLESS OF BLOWS, OF BLOODY WOUNDS, AND DEATH; 0010000AND LET THE BURNING OF LARISSA WALLS, 0010010MY SPEECH OF WAR, AND THIS MY WOUND YOU SEE, 0010020TEACH YOU, MY BOYS, TO BEAR COURAGEOUS MINDS, 0010030FIT FOR THE FOLLOWERS OF GREAT TAMBURLAINE. 0010040USUMCASANE, NOW COME LET US MARCH 0010050TOWARDS TECHELLES AND THERIDAMAS, 0010060THAT WE HAVE SENT BEFORE TO FIRE THE TOWNS, 0010070THE TOWERS AND CITIES OF THESE HATEFUL TURKS, 0010080AND HUNT THAT COWARD FAINT-HEART RUNAWAY, 0010090WITH THAT ACCURSED TRAITOR, ALMEDA, 0010100TILL FIRE AND SWORD HAVE FOUND THEM AT A BAY. 0010110I LONG TO PIERCE HIS BOWELS WITH MY SWORD, 0010120THAT HATH BETRAYED MY GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, 0010130THAT CURSED AND DAMNED TRAITOR, ALMEDA. 0010140THEN LET US SEE IF COWARD CALLAPINE 0010150DARE LEVY ARMS AGAINST OUR PUISSANCE, 0010160THAT WE MAY TREAD UPON HIS CAPTIVE NECK, 0010170AND TREBLE ALL HIS FATHER'S SLAVERIES. 0010180THUS HAVE WE MARCHED NORTHWARD FROM TAMBURLAINE, 0010190UNTO THE FRONTIER POINT OF SORIA, 0010200AND THIS IS BALSERA, THEIR CHIEFEST HOLD, 0010210WHEREIN IS ALL THE TREASURE OF THE LAND. 0010211THEN LET US BRING OUR LIGHT ARTILLERY, 0010220MINIONS, FALCONETS, AND SAKERS, TO THE TRENCH, 0010230FILLING THE DITCHES WITH THE WALLS' WIDE BREACH, 0010240AND ENTER IN TO SEIZE UPON THE GOLD. 0010250HOW SAY YE, SOLDIERS, SHALL WE NOT? 0010260YES, MY LORD, YES; COME, LET US ABOUT IT. 0010270BUT STAY AWHILE; SUMMON A PARLE, DRUM. 0010280IT MAY BE THEY WILL YIELD IT QUIETLY, 0010290KNOWING TWO KINGS, THE FRIENDS TO TAMBURLAINE, 0010300STAND AT THE WALLS WITH SUCH A MIGHTY POWER. 0010310WHAT REQUIRE YOU, MY MASTERS? 0010320CAPTAIN, THAT THOU YIELD UP THY HOLD TO US. 0010330TO YOU! WHY, DO YOU THINK ME WEARY OF IT? 0010340NAY, CAPTAIN, THOU ART WEARY OF THY LIFE 0010350IF THOU WITHSTAND THE FRIENDS OF TAMBURLAINE. 0010360THESE PIONERS OF ARGIER IN AFRICA 0010370EVEN IN THE CANNON'S FACE SHALL RAISE A HILL 0010380OF EARTH AND FAGGOTS HIGHER THAN THY FORT, 0010390AND OVER THY ARGINS AND COVERED WAYS 0010400SHALL PLAY UPON THE BULWARKS OF THY HOLD 0010410VOLLEYS OF ORDNANCE, TILL THE BREACH BE MADE 0010420THAT WITH HIS RUIN FILLS UP ALL THE TRENCH; 0010430AND, WHEN WE ENTER IN, NOT HEAVEN ITSELF 0010440SHALL RANSOM THEE, THY WIFE, AND FAMILY. 0010450CAPTAIN, THESE MOORS SHALL CUT THE LEADEN PIPES 0010460THAT BRING FRESH WATER TO THY MEN AND THEE, 0010470AND LIE IN TRENCH BEFORE THY CASTLE WALLS, 0010480THAT NO SUPPLY OF VICTUAL SHALL COME IN, 0010490NOR (ANY) ISSUE FORTH BUT THEY SHALL DIE; 0010500AND, THEREFORE, CAPTAIN, YIELD IT QUIETLY. 0010510WERE YOU, THAT ARE THE FRIENDS OF TAMBURLAINE, 0010520BROTHERS TO HOLY MAHOMET HIMSELF, 0010530I WOULD NOT YIELD IT; THEREFORE DO YOUR WORST. 0010540CUT OFF THE WATER, ALL CONVOYS THAT CAN, 0010550RAISE MOUNTS, BATTER, INTRENCH, AND UNDERMINE, 0010560YET I AM RESOLUTE: AND SO, FAREWELL. 0010570PIONERS, AWAY! AND WHERE I STUCK THE STAKE, 0010580INTRENCH WITH THOSE DIMENSIONS I PRESCRIBED; 0010590CAST UP THE EARTH TOWARDS THE CASTLE WALL, 0010600WHICH, TILL IT MAY DEFEND YOU, LABOUR LOW, 0010610AND FEW OR NONE SHALL PERISH BY THEIR SHOT. 0010611WE WILL, MY LORD. 0010620A HUNDRED HORSE SHALL SCOUT ABOUT THE PLAINS 0010630TO SPY WHAT FORCE COMES TO RELIEVE THE HOLD. 0010640BOTH WE, THERIDAMAS, WILL INTRENCH OUR MEN, 0010650AND WITH THE JACOB'S STAFF MEASURE THE HEIGHT 0010660AND DISTANCE OF THE CASTLE FROM THE TRENCH, 0010670THAT WE MAY KNOW IF OUR ARTILLERY 0010680WILL CARRY FULL POINT-BLANK UNTO THEIR WALLS. 0010690THEN SEE THE BRINGING OF OUR ORDINANCE 0010700ALONG THE TRENCH INTO THE BATTERY, 0010710WHERE WE WILL HAVE GABIONS OF SIX FOOT BROAD, 0010720TO SAVE OUR CANNONEERS FROM MUSKET SHOT; 0010730BETWIXT WHICH SHALL OUR ORDNANCE THUNDER FORTH, 0010740AND WITH THE BREACH'S FALL, SMOKE, FIRE, AND DUST, 0010750THE CRACK, THE ECHO, AND THE SOLDIER'S CRY, 0010760MAKE DEAF THE AIR AND DIM THE CRYSTAL SKY. 0010770TRUMPETS AND DRUMS, ALARUM PRESENTLY! 0010780AND, SOLDIERS, PLAY THE MEN; THE HOLD IS YOURS! 0010790COME, GOOD MY LORD, AND LET US HASTE FROM HENCE 0010800ALONG THE CAVE THAT LEADS BEYOND THE FOE. 0010810NO HOPE IS LEFT TO SAVE THIS CONQUERED HOLD. 0010820A DEADLY BULLET GLIDING THROUGH MY SIDE 0010830LIES HEAVY ON MY HEART; I CANNOT LIVE. 0010840I FEEL MY LIVER PIERCED, AND ALL MY VEINS, 0010850THAT THERE BEGIN AND NOURISH EVERY PART, 0010860MANGLED AND TORN, AND ALL MY ENTRAILS BATHED 0010870IN BLOOD THAT STRAINETH FROM THEIR ORIFEX. 0010880FAREWELL, SWEET WIFE! SWEET SON, FAREWELL! I DIE. 0010890DEATH, WHITHER ART THOU GONE, THAT BOTH WE LIVE? 0010900COME BACK AGAIN, SWEET DEATH, AND STRIKE US BOTH. 0010910ONE MINUTE END OUR DAYS, AND ONE SEPULCHRE 0010920CONTAIN OUR BODIES! DEATH, WHY COMEST THOU NOT? 0010930WELL, THIS MUST BE THE MESSENGER FOR THEE. 0010940NOW, UGLY DEATH, STRETCH OUT THY SABLE WINGS 0010950AND CARRY BOTH OUR SOULS WHERE HIS REMAINS. 0010960TELL ME, SWEET BOY, ART THOU CONTENT TO DIE? 0010970THESE BARBAROUS SCYTHIANS, FULL OF CRUELTY, 0010980AND MOORS, IN WHOM WAS NEVER PITY FOUND, 0010990WILL HEW US PIECEMEAL, PUT US TO THE WHEEL, 0011000OR ELSE INVENT SOME TORTURE WORSE THAN THAT; 0011010THEREFORE DIE BY THY LOVING MOTHER'S HAND, 0011011WHO GENTLY NOW WILL LANCE THY IVORY THROAT 0011020AND QUICKLY RID THEE BOTH OF PAIN AND LIFE. 0011030MOTHER, DISPATCH ME, OR I WILL KILL MYSELF; 0011040FOR THINK YE I CAN LIVE AND SEE HIM DEAD? 0011050GIVE ME YOUR KNIFE, GOOD MOTHER, OR STRIKE HOME; 0011060THE SCYTHIANS SHALL NOT TYRANNIZE ON ME. 0011070SWEET MOTHER, STRIKE, THAT I MAY MEET MY FATHER. 0011080AH, SACRED MAHOMET, IF THIS BE SIN, 0011090ENTREAT A PARDON OF THE GOD OF HEAVEN, 0011100AND PURGE MY SOUL BEFORE IT COMES TO THEE. 0011110HOW NOW, MADAM! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 0011120KILLING MYSELF, AS I HAVE DONE MY SON, 0011130WHOSE BODY, WITH HIS FATHER'S, I HAVE BURNT, 0011140LEST CRUEL SCYTHIANS SHOULD DISMEMBER HIM. 0011150IT WAS BRAVELY DONE, AND LIKE A SOLDIER'S WIFE. 0011160THOU SHALT WITH US TO TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT, 0011170WHO, WHEN HE HEARS HOW RESOLUTE THOU WERT, 0011180WILL MATCH THEE WITH A VICEROY OR A KING. 0011190MY LORD DECEASED WAS DEARER UNTO ME 0011200THAN ANY VICEROY, KING, OR EMPEROR; 0011210AND FOR HIS SAKE HERE WILL I END MY DAYS. 0011220BUT, LADY, GO WITH US TO TAMBURLAINE, 0011230AND THOU SHALT SEE A MAN GREATER THAN MAHOMET, 0011240IN WHOSE HIGH LOOKS IS MUCH MORE MAJESTY 0011250THAN FROM THE CONCAVE SUPERFICIES 0011260OF JOVE'S VAST PALACE, THE EMPYREAL ORB, 0011270UNTO THE SHINING BOWER WHERE CYNTHIA SITS, 0011280LIKE LOVELY THETIS, IN A CRYSTAL ROBE; 0011290THAT TREADETH FORTUNE UNDERNEATH HIS FEET 0011300AND MAKES THE MIGHTY GOD OF ARMS HIS SLAVE; 0011310ON WHOM DEATH AND THE FATAL SISTERS WAIT 0011320WITH NAKED SWORDS AND SCARLET LIVERIES; 0011330BEFORE WHOM, MOUNTED ON A LION'S BACK, 0011340RHAMNUSIA BEARS A HELMET FULL OF BLOOD 0011350AND STROWS THE WAY WITH BRAINS OF SLAUGHTERED MEN; 0011360BY WHOSE PROUD SIDE THE UGLY FURIES RUN, 0011370HEARKENING WHEN HE SHALL BID THEM PLAGUE THE WORLD. 0011380OVER WHOSE ZENITH, CLOTHED IN WINDY AIR, 0011390AND EAGLE'S WINGS JOINED TO HER FEATHERED BREAST, 0011400FAME HOVERETH, SOUNDING OF HER GOLDEN TRUMP, 0011410THAT TO THE ADVERSE POLES OF THAT STRAIGHT LINE 0011420THE NAME OF MIGHTY TAMBURLAINE IS SPREAD; 0011430AND HIM, FAIR LADY, SHALL THY EYES BEHOLD. 0011440COME. 0011450TAKE PITY OF A LADY'S RUTHFUL TEARS, 0011460THAT HUMBLY CRAVES UPON HER KNEES TO STAY 0011470AND CAST HER BODY IN THE BURNING FLAME 0011480THAT FEEDS UPON HER SON'S AND HUSBAND'S FLESH. 0011490MADAM, SOONER SHALL FIRE CONSUME US BOTH 0011500THAN SCORCH A FACE SO BEAUTIFUL AS THIS, 0011510IN FRAME OF WHICH NATURE HATH SHOWED MORE SKILL 0011520THAN WHEN SHE GAVE ETERNAL CHAOS FORM, 0011530DRAWING FROM IT THE SHINING LAMPS OF HEAVEN. 0011540MADAM, I AM SO FAR IN LOVE WITH YOU, 0011550THAT YOU MUST GO WITH US - NO REMEDY. 0011560THEN CARRY ME, I CARE NOT, WHERE YOU WILL, 0011570AND LET THE END OF THIS MY FATAL JOURNEY 0011580BE LIKEWISE END TO MY ACCURSED LIFE. 0011590NO, MADAM, BUT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR JOY. 0011600COME WILLINGLY, THEREFORE. 0011610SOLDIERS, NOW LET US MEET THE GENERAL, 0011620WHO BY THIS TIME IS AT NATOLIA, 0011630READY TO CHARGE THE ARMY OF THE TURK. 0011640THE GOLD, THE SILVER, AND THE PEARL YE GOT, 0011650RIFLING THIS FORT, DIVIDE IN EQUAL SHARES: 0011660THIS LADY SHALL HAVE TWICE SO MUCH AGAIN 0011670OUT OF THE COFFERS OF OUR TREASURY. 0011680RENOWNED EMPEROR, MIGHTY CALLAPINE, 0011690GOD'S GREAT LIEUTENANT OVER ALL THE WORLD, 0011700HERE AT ALEPPO, WITH AN HOST OF MEN, 0011710LIES TAMBURLAINE, THIS KING OF PERSIA, 0011720(IN NUMBER MORE THAN ARE THE QUIVERING LEAVES 0011730OF IDA'S FOREST, WHERE YOUR HIGHNESS' HOUNDS 0011740WITH OPEN CRY PURSUE THE WOUNDED STAG,) 0011750WHO MEANS TO GIRT NATOLIA'S WALLS WITH SIEGE, 0011760FIRE THE TOWN, AND OVERRUN THE LAND. 0011770MY ROYAL ARMY IS AS GREAT AS HIS, 0011780THAT, FROM THE BOUNDS OF PHRYGIA TO THE SEA 0011790WHICH WASHETH CYPRUS WITH HIS BRINISH WAVES, 0011800COVERS THE HILLS, THE VALLEYS, AND THE PLAINS. 0011810VICEROYS AND PEERS OF TURKEY, PLAY THE MEN. 0011820WHET ALL YOUR SWORDS TO MANGLE TAMBURLAINE, 0011821HIS SONS, HIS CAPTAINS, AND HIS FOLLOWERS. 0011830BY MAHOMET, NOT ONE OF THEM SHALL LIVE. 0011840THE FIELD WHEREIN THIS BATTLE SHALL BE FOUGHT 0011850FOREVER TERM THE PERSIANS' SEPULCHRE, 0011860IN MEMORY OF THIS OUR VICTORY. 0011870NOW HE THAT CALLS HIMSELF THE SCOURGE OF JOVE, 0011880THE EMPEROR OF THE WORLD, AND EARTHLY GOD, 0011890SHALL END THE WARLIKE PROGRESS HE INTENDS 0011900AND TRAVEL HEADLONG TO THE LAKE OF HELL, 0011910WHERE LEGIONS OF DEVILS (KNOWING HE MUST DIE 0011920HERE IN NATOLIA BY YOUR HIGHNESS' HANDS), 0011930ALL BRANDISHING THEIR BRANDS OF QUENCHLESS FIRE, 0011940STRETCHING THEIR MONSTROUS PAWS, GRIN WITH THEIR 0011950TEETH, 0011960AND GUARD THE GATES TO ENTERTAIN HIS SOUL. 0011970TELL ME, VICEROYS, THE NUMBER OF YOUR MEN, 0011980AND WHAT OUR ARMY ROYAL IS ESTEEMED. 0011990FROM PALESTINA AND JERUSALEM, 0012000OF HEBREWS THREE SCORE THOUSAND FIGHTING MEN 0012010ARE COME, SINCE LAST WE SHOWED YOUR MAJESTY. 0012020SO FROM ARABIA DESERT, AND THE BOUNDS 0012030OF THAT SWEET LAND WHOSE BRAVE METROPOLIS 0012040RE-EDIFIED THE FAIR SEMIRAMIS, 0012050CAME FORTY THOUSAND WARLIKE FOOT AND HORSE, 0012060SINCE LAST WE NUMBERED TO YOUR MAJESTY. 0012070FROM TREBIZON IN ASIA THE LESS, 0012080NATURALIZED TURKS AND STOUT BITHYNIANS 0012090CAME TO MY BANDS, FULL FIFTY THOUSAND MORE, 0012100THAT, FIGHTING, KNOWS NOT WHAT RETREAT DOTH MEAN, 0012110NOR EVER RETURN BUT WITH THE VICTORY, 0012120SINCE LAST WE NUMBERED TO YOUR MAJESTY. 0012130OF SORIANS FROM HALLA IS REPAIRED, 0012140AND NEIGHBOUR CITIES OF YOUR HIGHNESS' LAND, 0012150TEN THOUSAND HORSE AND THIRTY THOUSAND FOOT, 0012160SINCE LAST WE NUMBERED TO YOUR MAJESTY; 0012170SO THAT THE ARMY ROYAL IS ESTEEMED 0012180SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND VALIANT FIGHTING MEN. 0012190THEN WELCOME, TAMBURLAINE, UNTO THY DEATH. 0012200COME, PUISSANT VICEROYS, LET US TO THE FIELD, 0012210(THE PERSIANS' SEPULCHRE), AND SACRIFICE 0012220MOUNTAINS OF BREATHLESS MEN TO MAHOMET, 0012230WHO NOW, WITH JOVE, OPENS THE FIRMAMENT 0012240TO SEE THE SLAUGHTER OF OUR ENEMIES. 0012250HOW NOW, CASANE! SEE, A KNOT OF KINGS, 0012260SITTING AS IF THEY WERE A-TELLING RIDDLES. 0012270MY LORD, YOUR PRESENCE MAKES THEM PALE AND WAN. 0012280POOR SOULS, THEY LOOK AS IF THEIR DEATHS WERE NEAR. 0012290WHY, SO HE IS, CASANE; I AM HERE. 0012300BUT YET I WILL SAVE THEIR LIVES AND MAKE THEM SLAVES. 0012310YE PETTY KINGS OF TURKEY, I AM COME, 0012320AS HECTOR DID INTO THE GRECIAN CAMP, 0012330TO OVERDARE THE PRIDE OF GRAECIA 0012340AND SET HIS WARLIKE PERSON TO THE VIEW 0012350OF FIERCE ACHILLES, RIVAL OF HIS FAME. 0012360I DO YOU HONOUR IN THE SIMILE; 0012370FOR, IF I SHOULD, AS HECTOR DID ACHILLES, 0012380(THE WORTHIEST KNIGHT THAT EVER BRANDISHED SWORD,) 0012390CHALLENGE IN COMBAT ANY OF YOU ALL, 0012400I SEE HOW FEARFULLY YE WOULD REFUSE, 0012410AND FLY MY GLOVE AS FROM A SCORPION. 0012420NOW THOU ART FEARFUL OF THY ARMY'S STRENGTH, 0012430THOU WOULDST WITH OVERMATCH OF PERSON FIGHT. 0012440BUT, SHEPHERD'S ISSUE, BASE-BORN TAMBURLAINE, 0012450THINK OF THY END; THIS SWORD SHALL LANCE THY THROAT. 0012460VILLAIN, THE SHEPHERD'S ISSUE (AT WHOSE BIRTH 0012470HEAVEN DID AFFORD A GRACIOUS ASPECT, 0012480AND JOINED THOSE STARS THAT SHALL BE OPPOSITE 0012490EVEN TILL THE DISSOLUTION OF THE WORLD, 0012500AND NEVER MEANT TO MAKE A CONQUEROR 0012510SO FAMOUS AS IS MIGHTY TAMBURLAINE) 0012520SHALL SO TORMENT THEE AND THAT CALLAPINE, 0012530THAT, LIKE A ROGUISH RUNAWAY, SUBORNED 0012540THAT VILLAIN THERE, THAT SLAVE, THAT TURKISH DOG, 0012550TO FALSE HIS SERVICE TO HIS SOVEREIGN, 0012560AS YE SHALL CURSE THE BIRTH OF TAMBURLAINE. 0012570RAIL NOT, PROUD SCYTHIAN. I SHALL NOW REVENGE 0012580MY FATHER'S VILE ABUSES AND MINE OWN. 0012590BY MAHOMET, HE SHALL BE TIED IN CHAINS, 0012600ROWING WITH CHRISTIANS IN A BRIGANDINE 0012610ABOUT THE GRECIAN ISLES TO ROB AND SPOIL, 0012620AND TURN HIM TO HIS ANCIENT TRADE AGAIN. 0012630METHINKS THE SLAVE SHOULD MAKE A LUSTY THIEF. 0012640NAY, WHEN THE BATTLE ENDS, ALL WE WILL MEET 0012650AND SIT IN COUNCIL TO INVENT SOME PAIN 0012660THAT MOST MAY VEX HIS BODY AND HIS SOUL. 0012661SIRRAH CALLAPINE, I WILL HANG A CLOG ABOUT YOUR NECK 0012670FOR RUNNING AWAY AGAIN. YOU SHALL NOT TROUBLE ME THUS 0012680TO COME AND FETCH YOU. 0012690BUT AS FOR YOU, VICEROY, YOU SHALL HAVE BITS, 0012700AND, HARNESSED LIKE MY HORSES, DRAW MY COACH; 0012710AND, WHEN YE STAY, BE LASHED WITH WHIPS OF WIRE. 0012720I WILL HAVE YOU LEARN TO FEED ON PROVENDER 0012730AND IN A STABLE LIE UPON THE PLANKS. 0012740BUT, TAMBURLAINE, FIRST THOU SHALT KNEEL TO US 0012750AND HUMBLY CRAVE A PARDON FOR THY LIFE. 0012760THE COMMON SOLDIERS OF OUR MIGHTY HOST 0012770SHALL BRING THEE BOUND UNTO THE GENERAL'S TENT. 0012780AND ALL HAVE JOINTLY SWORN THY CRUEL DEATH, 0012790OR BIND THEE IN ETERNAL TORMENTS' WRATH. 0012800WELL, SIRS, DIET YOURSELVES; YOU KNOW I SHALL HAVE 0012810OCCASION SHORTLY TO JOURNEY YOU. 0012820SEE, FATHER, HOW ALMEDA THE JAILOR LOOKS UPON US. 0012830VILLAIN, TRAITOR, DAMNED FUGITIVE, 0012840I WILL MAKE THEE WISH THE EARTH HAD SWALLOWED THEE. 0012850SEEST THOU NOT DEATH WITHIN MY WRATHFUL LOOKS? 0012860GO, VILLAIN, CAST THEE HEADLONG FROM A ROCK, 0012870OR RIP THY BOWELS AND REND OUT THY HEART 0012880TO APPEASE MY WRATH; OR ELSE I WILL TORTURE THEE, 0012890SEARING THY HATEFUL FLESH WITH BURNING IRONS 0012900AND DROPS OF SCALDING LEAD, WHILE ALL THY JOINTS 0012910BE RACKED AND BEAT ASUNDER WITH THE WHEEL; 0012920FOR, IF THOU LIVEST, NOT ANY ELEMENT 0012930SHALL SHROUD THEE FROM THE WRATH OF TAMBURLAINE. 0012940WELL, IN DESPITE OF THEE, HE SHALL BE KING. 0012950COME, ALMEDA, RECEIVE THIS CROWN OF ME. 0012960I HERE INVEST THEE KING OF ARIADAN, 0012970BORDERING ON MARE ROSSO, NEAR TO MECCA. 0012980WHAT! TAKE IT, MAN. 0012990GOOD MY LORD, LET ME TAKE IT. 0013000DOST THOU ASK HIM LEAVE? HERE; TAKE IT. 0013010GO TO, SIRRAH, TAKE YOUR CROWN, AND MAKE UP THE 0013020HALF DOZEN. SO, SIRRAH, NOW YOU ARE A KING, YOU MUST 0013030GIVE ARMS. 0013040SO HE SHALL, AND WEAR THY HEAD IN HIS SCUTCHEON. 0013050NO; LET HIM HANG A BUNCH OF KEYS ON HIS STANDARD, 0013060TO PUT HIM IN REMEMBRANCE HE WAS A JAILOR, THAT, 0013061WHEN I TAKE HIM I MAY KNOCK OUT HIS BRAINS WITH 0013070THEM, AND LOCK YOU IN THE STABLE, WHEN YOU SHALL 0013080COME SWEATING FROM MY CHARIOT. 0013090AWAY; LET US TO THE FIELD, THAT THE 0013100VILLAIN MAY BE SLAIN. 0013110SIRRAH, PREPARE WHIPS, AND BRING MY CHARIOT TO 0013120MY TENT; FOR, AS SOON AS THE BATTLE IS DONE, I WILL RIDE 0013130IN TRIUMPH THROUGH THE CAMP. 0013140HOW NOW, YE PETTY KINGS? LO, HERE ARE BUGS 0013150WILL MAKE THE HAIR STAND UPRIGHT ON YOUR HEADS, 0013160AND CAST YOUR CROWNS IN SLAVERY AT THEIR FEET. 0013170WELCOME, THERIDAMAS AND TECHELLES, BOTH. 0013180SEE YE THIS ROUT, AND KNOW YE THIS SAME KING? 0013190AY, MY LORD; HE WAS CALLAPINE'S KEEPER. 0013200WELL NOW YOU SEE HE IS A KING. LOOK TO HIM, 0013210THERIDAMAS, WHEN WE ARE FIGHTING, LEST HE HIDE HIS 0013220CROWN AS THE FOOLISH KING OF PERSIA DID. 0013230NO, TAMBURLAINE; HE SHALL NOT BE PUT TO THAT 0013240EXIGENT, I WARRANT THEE. 0013250YOU KNOW NOT, SIR. 0013260BUT NOW, MY FOLLOWERS AND MY LOVING FRIENDS, 0013270FIGHT AS YOU EVER DID, LIKE CONQUERORS; 0013280THE GLORY OF THIS HAPPY DAY IS YOURS. 0013290MY STERN ASPECT SHALL MAKE FAIR VICTORY, 0013300HOVERING BETWIXT OUR ARMIES, LIGHT ON ME, 0013310LOADEN WITH LAUREL WREATHS TO CROWN US ALL. 0013320I SMILE TO THINK HOW WHEN THIS FIELD IS FOUGHT 0013330AND RICH NATOLIA OURS, OUR MEN SHALL SWEAT 0013340WITH CARRYING PEARL AND TREASURE ON THEIR BACKS. 0013350YOU SHALL BE PRINCES ALL, IMMEDIATELY. 0013360COME, FIGHT, YE TURKS, OR YIELD US VICTORY. 0013370NO; WE WILL MEET THEE, SLAVISH TAMBURLAINE. 0013380NOW IN THEIR GLORIES SHINE THE GOLDEN CROWNS 0013390OF THESE PROUD TURKS, MUCH LIKE SO MANY SUNS 0013400THAT HALF DISMAY THE MAJESTY OF HEAVEN. 0013410NOW, BROTHER, FOLLOW WE OUR FATHER'S SWORD, 0013420THAT FLIES WITH FURY SWIFTER THAN OUR THOUGHTS 0013421AND CUTS DOWN ARMIES WITH HIS CONQUERING'S WINGS. 0013430CALL FORTH OUR LAZY BROTHER FROM THE TENT, 0013440FOR IF MY FATHER MISS HIM IN THE FIELD, 0013450WRATH, KINDLED IN THE FURNACE OF HIS BREAST, 0013460WILL SEND A DEADLY LIGHTNING TO HIS HEART. 0013470BROTHER, HO! WHAT, GIVEN SO MUCH TO SLEEP, 0013480YOU CANNOT LEAVE IT WHEN OUR ENEMIES' DRUMS 0013490AND RATTLING CANNONS THUNDER IN OUR EARS 0013500OUR PROPER RUIN AND OUR FATHER'S FOIL? 0013510AWAY, YE FOOLS! MY FATHER NEEDS NOT ME, 0013520NOR YOU, IN FAITH, BUT THAT YOU WILL BE THOUGHT 0013530MORE CHILDISH-VALOROUS THAN MANLY-WISE. 0013540IF HALF OUR CAMP SHOULD SIT AND SLEEP WITH ME, 0013550MY FATHER WERE ENOUGH TO SCARE THE FOE. 0013560YOU DO DISHONOUR TO HIS MAJESTY, 0013570TO THINK OUR HELPS WILL DO HIM ANY GOOD. 0013580WHAT, DAREST THOU, THEN, BE ABSENT FROM THE FIGHT, 0013590KNOWING MY FATHER HATES THY COWARDICE, 0013600AND OFT HATH WARNED THEE TO BE STILL IN FIELD, 0013610WHEN HE HIMSELF AMIDST THE THICKEST TROOPS 0013620BEATS DOWN OUR FOES TO FLESH OUR TAINTLESS SWORDS? 0013630I KNOW, SIR, WHAT IT IS TO KILL A MAN; 0013640IT WORKS REMORSE OF CONSCIENCE IN ME. 0013650I TAKE NO PLEASURE TO BE MURDEROUS, 0013660NOR CARE FOR BLOOD WHEN WINE WILL QUENCH MY THIRST. 0013670O COWARDLY BOY! FIE, FOR SHAME, COME FORTH! 0013680THOU DOST DISHONOUR MANHOOD AND THY HOUSE. 0013690GO, GO, TALL STRIPLING, FIGHT YOU FOR US BOTH, 0013700AND TAKE MY OTHER TOWARD BROTHER HERE, 0013710FOR PERSON LIKE TO PROVE A SECOND MARS, 0013720IT WILL PLEASE MY MIND AS WELL TO HEAR BOTH YOU 0013730HAVE WON A HEAP OF HONOUR IN THE FIELD 0013740AND LEFT YOUR SLENDER CARCASSES BEHIND, 0013750AS IF I LAY WITH YOU FOR COMPANY. 0013760YOU WILL NOT GO, THEN? 0013770YOU SAY TRUE. 0013780WERE ALL THE LOFTY MOUNTS OF ZONA MUNDI 0013790THAT FILL THE MIDST OF FARTHEST TARTARY 0013800TURNED INTO PEARL AND PROFFERED FOR MY STAY, 0013810I WOULD NOT BIDE THE FURY OF MY FATHER, 0013820WHEN, MADE A VICTOR IN THESE HAUGHTY ARMS, 0013830HE COMES AND FINDS HIS SONS HAVE HAD NO SHARES 0013840IN ALL THE HONOURS HE PROPOSED FOR US. 0013850TAKE YOU THE HONOUR, I WILL TAKE MY EASE; 0013851MY WISDOM SHALL EXCUSE MY COWARDICE. 0013860I GO INTO THE FIELD BEFORE I NEED? 0013870THE BULLETS FLY AT RANDOM WHERE THEY LIST; 0013880AND SHOULD I GO AND KILL A THOUSAND MEN, 0013890I WERE AS SOON REWARDED WITH A SHOT, 0013900AND SOONER FAR THAN HE THAT NEVER FIGHTS; 0013910AND SHOULD I GO AND DO NOR HARM NOR GOOD, 0013920I MIGHT HAVE HARM, WHICH ALL THE GOOD I HAVE, 0013930JOINED WITH MY FATHER'S CROWN, WOULD NEVER CURE. 0013940I WILL TO CARDS. PERDICAS! 0013950HERE, MY LORD. 0013960COME, THOU AND I WILL GO TO CARDS TO DRIVE 0013970AWAY THE TIME. 0013980CONTENT, MY LORD: BUT WHAT SHALL WE PLAY FOR? 0013990WHO SHALL KISS THE FAIREST OF THE TURKS' 0014000CONCUBINES FIRST, WHEN MY FATHER HATH CONQUERED THEM? 0014010AGREED, IN FAITH. 0014020THEY SAY I AM A COWARD, PERDICAS, AND I FEAR AS 0014030LITTLE THEIR TARATANTARAS, THEIR SWORDS, OR THEIR 0014040CANNONS AS I DO A NAKED LADY IN A NET OF GOLD, AND, 0014050FOR FEAR I SHOULD BE AFRAID, WOULD PUT IT OFF AND 0014060COME TO BED WITH ME. 0014070SUCH A FEAR, MY LORD, WOULD NEVER MAKE YE RETIRE. 0014080I WOULD MY FATHER WOULD LET ME BE PUT IN THE FRONT 0014090OF SUCH A BATTLE ONCE, TO TRY MY VALOUR. 0014100WHAT A COIL THEY KEEP! I BELIEVE THERE WILL BE SOME 0014110HURT DONE ANON AMONGST THEM. 0014120SEE NOW, YE SLAVES, MY CHILDREN STOOPS YOUR PRIDE 0014130AND LEADS YOUR GLORIES SHEEP-LIKE TO THE SWORD. 0014140BRING THEM, MY BOYS, AND TELL ME IF THE WARS 0014150BE NOT A LIFE THAT MAY ILLUSTRATE GODS, 0014160AND TICKLE NOT YOUR SPIRITS WITH DESIRE 0014170STILL TO BE TRAINED IN ARMS AND CHIVALRY? 0014180SHALL WE LET GO THESE KINGS AGAIN, MY LORD, 0014190TO GATHER GREATER NUMBERS AGAINST OUR POWER, 0014200THAT THEY MAY SAY IT IS NOT CHANCE DOTH THIS, 0014210BUT MATCHLESS STRENGTH AND MAGNANIMITY? 0014220NO, NO, AMYRAS; TEMPT NOT FORTUNE SO. 0014230CHERISH THY VALOUR STILL WITH FRESH SUPPLIES, 0014231AND GLUT IT NOT WITH STALE AND DAUNTED FOES. 0014240BUT WHERE IS THIS COWARD VILLAIN, NOT MY SON, 0014250BUT TRAITOR TO MY NAME AND MAJESTY? 0014260IMAGE OF SLOTH, AND PICTURE OF A SLAVE, 0014270THE OBLOQUY AND SCORN OF MY RENOWN! 0014280HOW MAY MY HEART, THUS FIRED WITH MINE EYES, 0014290WOUNDED WITH SHAME AND KILLED WITH DISCONTENT, 0014300SHROUD ANY THOUGHT MAY HOLD MY STRIVING HANDS 0014310FROM MARTIAL JUSTICE ON THY WRETCHED SOUL? 0014320YET PARDON HIM, I PRAY YOUR MAJESTY. 0014330LET ALL OF US ENTREAT YOUR HIGHNESS' PARDON. 0014340STAND UP, YE BASE, UNWORTHY SOLDIERS! 0014350KNOW YE NOT YET THE ARGUMENT OF ARMS? 0014360GOOD, MY LORD, LET HIM BE FORGIVEN FOR ONCE, 0014370AND WE WILL FORCE HIM TO THE FIELD HEREAFTER. 0014380STAND UP, MY BOYS, AND I WILL TEACH YE ARMS, 0014390AND WHAT THE JEALOUSY OF WARS MUST DO. 0014400O SAMARCANDA, WHERE I BREATHED FIRST, 0014410AND JOYED THE FIRE OF THIS MARTIAL FLESH, 0014420BLUSH, BLUSH, FAIR CITY, AT THINE HONOUR'S FOIL, 0014430AND SHAME OF NATURE, WHICH JAERTIS' STREAM, 0014440EMBRACING THEE WITH DEEPEST OF HIS LOVE, 0014450CAN NEVER WASH FROM THY DISTAINED BROWS! 0014460HERE, JOVE, RECEIVE HIS FAINTING SOUL AGAIN, 0014470A FORM NOT MEET TO GIVE THAT SUBJECT ESSENCE 0014480WHOSE MATTER IS THE FLESH OF TAMBURLAINE, 0014490WHEREIN AN INCORPOREAL SPIRIT MOVES, 0014500MADE OF THE MOULD WHEREOF THYSELF CONSISTS, 0014510WHICH MAKES ME VALIANT, PROUD, AMBITIOUS, 0014520READY TO LEVY POWER AGAINST THY THRONE, 0014530THAT I MIGHT MOVE THE TURNING SPHERES OF HEAVEN; 0014540FOR EARTH AND ALL THIS AIRY REGION 0014550CANNOT CONTAIN THE STATE OF TAMBURLAINE. 0014560BY MAHOMET, THY MIGHTY FRIEND, I SWEAR, 0014570IN SENDING TO MY ISSUE SUCH A SOUL, 0014580CREATED OF THE MASSY DREGS OF EARTH, 0014590THE SCUM AND TARTAR OF THE ELEMENTS, 0014600WHEREIN WAS NEITHER COURAGE, STRENGTH, OR WIT, 0014610BUT FOLLY, SLOTH, AND DAMNED IDLENESS, 0014620THOU HAST PROCURED A GREATER ENEMY 0014630THAN HE THAT DARTED MOUNTAINS AT THY HEAD, 0014640SHAKING THE BURDEN MIGHTY ATLAS BEARS, 0014650WHEREAT THOU TREMBLING HIDDEST THEE IN THE AIR, 0014651CLOTHED WITH A PITCHY CLOUD FOR BEING SEEN. 0014660AND NOW, YE CANKERED CURS OF ASIA, 0014670THAT WILL NOT SEE THE STRENGTH OF TAMBURLAINE, 0014680ALTHOUGH IT SHINE AS BRIGHTLY AS THE SUN, 0014690NOW YOU SHALL FEEL THE STRENGTH OF TAMBURLAINE, 0014700AND, BY THE STATE OF HIS SUPREMACY, 0014710APPROVE THE DIFFERENCE BETWIXT HIMSELF AND YOU. 0014720THOU SHOWEST THE DIFFERENCE BETWIXT OURSELVES 0014730AND THEE, 0014740IN THIS THY BARBAROUS DAMNED TYRANNY. 0014750THY VICTORIES ARE GROWN SO VIOLENT, 0014760THAT SHORTLY HEAVEN, FILLED WITH THE METEORS 0014770OF BLOOD AND FIRE THY TYRANNIES HAVE MADE, 0014780WILL POUR DOWN BLOOD AND FIRE ON THY HEAD, 0014790WHOSE SCALDING DROPS WILL PIERCE THY SEETHING BRAINS, 0014800AND, WITH OUR BLOODS, REVENGE OUR BLOODS ON THEE. 0014810VILLAINS, THESE TERRORS, AND THESE TYRANNIES 0014820(IF TYRANNIES WAR'S JUSTICE YE REPUTE), 0014830I EXECUTE, ENJOINED ME FROM ABOVE, 0014840TO SCOURGE THE PRIDE OF SUCH AS HEAVEN ABHORS; 0014850NOR AM I MADE ARCH-MONARCH OF THE WORLD, 0014860CROWNED AND INVESTED BY THE HAND OF JOVE, 0014870FOR DEEDS OF BOUNTY OR NOBILITY; 0014880BUT SINCE I EXERCISE A GREATER NAME, 0014890THE SCOURGE OF GOD AND TERROR OF THE WORLD, 0014900I MUST APPLY MYSELF TO FIT THOSE TERMS, 0014910IN WAR, IN BLOOD, IN DEATH, IN CRUELTY, 0014920AND PLAGUE SUCH PEASANTS AS RESIST IN ME 0014930THE POWER OF HEAVEN'S ETERNAL MAJESTY. 0014940THERIDAMAS, TECHELLES, AND CASANE, 0014950RANSACK THE TENTS AND THE PAVILIONS 0014960OF THESE PROUD TURKS, AND TAKE THEIR CONCUBINES, 0014970MAKING THEM BURY THIS EFFEMINATE BRAT; 0014980FOR NOT A COMMON SOLDIER SHALL DEFILE 0014990HIS MANLY FINGERS WITH SO FAINT A BOY. 0015000THEN BRING THOSE TURKISH HARLOTS TO MY TENT, 0015010AND I WILL DISPOSE THEM AS IT LIKES ME BEST. 0015020MEANWHILE, TAKE HIM IN. 0015030WE WILL, MY LORD. 0015040O DAMNED MONSTER! NAY, A FIEND OF HELL, 0015050WHOSE CRUELTIES ARE NOT SO HARSH AS THINE, 0015060NOR YET IMPOSED WITH SUCH A BITTER HATE! 0015070REVENGE IT, RHADAMANTH AND AEACUS, 0015080AND LET YOUR HATES, EXTENDED IN HIS PAINS, 0015090EXPEL THE HATE WHEREWITH HE PAINS OUR SOULS! 0015091MAY NEVER DAY GIVE VIRTUE TO HIS EYES, 0015100WHOSE SIGHT, COMPOSED OF FURY AND OF FIRE, 0015110DOTH SEND SUCH STERN AFFECTIONS TO HIS HEART! 0015120MAY NEVER SPIRIT, VEIN, OR ARTERY, FEED 0015130THE CURSED SUBSTANCE OF THAT CRUEL HEART; 0015140BUT, WANTING MOISTURE AND REMORSEFUL BLOOD, 0015150DRY UP WITH ANGER, AND CONSUME WITH HEAT! 0015160WELL, BARK, YE DOGS. I WILL BRIDLE ALL YOUR TONGUES 0015170AND BIND THEM CLOSE WITH BITS OF BURNISHED STEEL, 0015180DOWN TO THE CHANNELS OF YOUR HATEFUL THROATS; 0015190AND, WITH THE PAINS MY RIGOUR SHALL INFLICT, 0015200I WILL MAKE YE ROAR, THAT EARTH MAY ECHO FORTH 0015210THE FAR-RESOUNDING TORMENTS YE SUSTAIN; 0015220AS WHEN AN HERD OF LUSTY CIMBRIAN BULLS 0015230RUN MOURNING ROUND ABOUT THE FEMALES' MISS, 0015240AND, STUNG WITH FURY OF THEIR FOLLOWING, 0015250FILL ALL THE AIR WITH TROUBLOUS BELLOWING. 0015260I WILL, WITH ENGINES NEVER EXERCISED, 0015270CONQUER, SACK, AND UTTERLY CONSUME 0015280YOUR CITIES AND YOUR GOLDEN PALACES, 0015290AND WITH THE FLAMES THAT BEAT AGAINST THE CLOUDS, 0015300INCENSE THE HEAVENS AND MAKE THE STARS TO MELT, 0015310AS IF THEY WERE THE TEARS OF MAHOMET 0015320FOR HOT CONSUMPTION OF HIS COUNTRY'S PRIDE. 0015330AND, TILL BY VISION OR BY SPEECH I HEAR 0015340IMMORTAL JOVE SAY "CEASE, MY TAMBURLAINE," 0015350I WILL PERSIST A TERROR TO THE WORLD, 0015360MAKING THE METEORS (THAT LIKE ARMED MEN 0015370ARE SEEN TO MARCH UPON THE TOWERS OF HEAVEN) 0015380RUN TILTING ROUND ABOUT THE FIRMAMENT 0015390AND BREAK THEIR BURNING LANCES IN THE AIR, 0015400FOR HONOUR OF MY WONDROUS VICTORIES. 0015410COME, BRING THEM IN TO OUR PAVILION. 0015420DISTRESSED OLYMPIA, WHOSE WEEPING EYES, 0015430SINCE THY ARRIVAL HERE BEHELD NO SUN, 0015440BUT, CLOSED WITHIN THE COMPASS OF A TENT, 0015450HAVE STAINED THY CHEEKS, AND MADE THEE LOOK LIKE 0015460DEATH, 0015470DEVISE SOME MEANS TO RID THEE OF THY LIFE, 0015480RATHER THAN YIELD TO HIS DETESTED SUIT, 0015490WHOSE DRIFT IS ONLY TO DISHONOUR THEE; 0015500AND SINCE THIS EARTH, DEWED WITH THY BRINISH TEARS, 0015501AFFORDS NO HERBS WHOSE TASTE MAY POISON THEE, 0015510NOR YET THIS AIR, BEAT OFTEN WITH THY SIGHS, 0015520CONTAGIOUS SMELLS AND VAPOURS TO INFECT THEE, 0015530NOR THY CLOSE CAVE A SWORD TO MURDER THEE, 0015540LET THIS INVENTION BE THE INSTRUMENT. 0015550WELL MET, OLYMPIA. I SOUGHT THEE IN MY TENT, 0015560BUT WHEN I SAW THE PLACE OBSCURE AND DARK, 0015570WHICH WITH THY BEAUTY THOU WAST WONT TO LIGHT, 0015580ENRAGED, I RAN ABOUT THE FIELDS FOR THEE, 0015590SUPPOSING AMOROUS JOVE HAD SENT HIS SON, 0015600THE WINGED HERMES, TO CONVEY THEE HENCE. 0015610BUT NOW I FIND THEE, AND THAT FEAR IS PAST. 0015620TELL ME, OLYMPIA, WILT THOU GRANT MY SUIT? 0015630MY LORD AND HUSBAND'S DEATH, WITH MY SWEET SON'S, 0015640(WITH WHOM I BURIED ALL AFFECTIONS 0015650SAVE GRIEF AND SORROW, WHICH TORMENT MY HEART), 0015660FORBIDS MY MIND TO ENTERTAIN A THOUGHT 0015670THAT TENDS TO LOVE, BUT MEDITATE ON DEATH, 0015680A FITTER SUBJECT FOR A PENSIVE SOUL. 0015690OLYMPIA, PITY HIM IN WHOM THY LOOKS 0015700HAVE GREATER OPERATION AND MORE FORCE 0015710THAN CYNTHIA'S IN THE WATERY WILDERNESS, 0015720FOR WITH THY VIEW MY JOYS ARE AT THE FULL, 0015730AND EBB AGAIN AS THOU DEPARTEST FROM ME. 0015740AH, PITY ME, MY LORD, AND DRAW YOUR SWORD, 0015750MAKING A PASSAGE FOR MY TROUBLED SOUL, 0015760WHICH BEATS AGAINST THIS PRISON TO GET OUT 0015770AND MEET MY HUSBAND AND MY LOVING SON. 0015780NOTHING BUT STILL THY HUSBAND AND THY SON? 0015790LEAVE THIS, MY LOVE, AND LISTEN MORE TO ME: 0015800THOU SHALT BE STATELY QUEEN OF FAIR ARGIER, 0015810AND, CLOTHED IN COSTLY CLOTH OF MASSY GOLD, 0015820UPON THE MARBLE TURRETS OF MY COURT 0015830SIT LIKE TO VENUS IN HER CHAIR OF STATE, 0015840COMMANDING ALL THY PRINCELY EYE DESIRES; 0015850AND I WILL CAST OFF ARMS TO SIT WITH THEE, 0015860SPENDING MY LIFE IN SWEET DISCOURSE OF LOVE. 0015870NO SUCH DISCOURSE IS PLEASANT IN MINE EARS, 0015880BUT THAT WHERE EVERY PERIOD ENDS WITH DEATH, 0015890AND EVERY LINE BEGINS WITH DEATH AGAIN. 0015900I CANNOT LOVE TO BE AN EMPERESS. 0015910NAY LADY, THEN, IF NOTHING WILL PREVAIL, 0015920I WILL USE SOME OTHER MEANS TO MAKE YOU YIELD. 0015921SUCH IS THE SUDDEN FURY OF MY LOVE, 0015930I MUST AND WILL BE PLEASED, AND YOU SHALL YIELD. 0015940COME TO THE TENT AGAIN. 0015950STAY, GOOD MY LORD, AND, WILL YOU SAVE MY HONOUR, 0015960I WILL GIVE YOUR GRACE A PRESENT OF SUCH PRICE 0015970AS ALL THE WORLD CANNOT AFFORD THE LIKE. 0015980WHAT IS IT? 0015990AN OINTMENT WHICH A CUNNING ALCHEMIST 0016000DISTILLED FROM THE PUREST BALSAMUM 0016010AND SIMPLEST EXTRACTS OF ALL MINERALS, 0016020IN WHICH THE ESSENTIAL FORM OF MARBLE STONE, 0016030TEMPERED BY SCIENCE METAPHYSICAL, 0016040AND SPELLS OF MAGIC FROM THE MOUTHS OF SPIRITS, 0016050WITH WHICH IF YOU BUT ANOINT YOUR TENDER SKIN, 0016060NOR PISTOL, SWORD, NOR LANCE, CAN PIERCE YOUR FLESH. 0016070WHY, MADAM, THINK YE TO MOCK ME THUS PALPABLY? 0016080TO PROVE IT, I WILL ANOINT MY NAKED THROAT, 0016090WHICH WHEN YOU STAB, LOOK ON YOUR WEAPON'S POINT, 0016100AND YOU SHALL SEE IT REBATED WITH THE BLOW. 0016110WHY GAVE YOU NOT YOUR HUSBAND SOME OF IT, 0016120IF YOU LOVED HIM, AND IT SO PRECIOUS? 0016130MY PURPOSE WAS, MY LORD, TO SPEND IT SO, 0016140BUT WAS PREVENTED BY HIS SUDDEN END; 0016150AND FOR A PRESENT EASY PROOF HEREOF, 0016160THAT I DISSEMBLE NOT, TRY IT ON ME. 0016170I WILL, OLYMPIA, AND WILL KEEP IT FOR 0016180THE RICHEST PRESENT OF THIS EASTERN WORLD. 0016190NOW STAB, MY LORD, AND MARK YOUR WEAPON'S POINT, 0016200THAT WILL BE BLUNTED IF THE BLOW BE GREAT. 0016210HERE, THEN, OLYMPIA. 0016220WHAT, HAVE I SLAIN HER? VILLAIN, STAB THYSELF! 0016230CUT OFF THIS ARM THAT MURDERED MY LOVE, 0016240IN WHOM THE LEARNED RABBIS OF THIS AGE 0016250MIGHT FIND AS MANY WONDROUS MIRACLES 0016260AS IN THE THEORIA OF THE WORLD. 0016270NOW HELL IS FAIRER THAN ELYSIUM; 0016280A GREATER LAMP THAN THAT BRIGHT EYE OF HEAVEN, 0016290FROM WHENCE THE STARS DO BORROW ALL THEIR LIGHT, 0016300WANDERS ABOUT THE BLACK CIRCUMFERENCE; 0016310AND NOW THE DAMNED SOULS ARE FREE FROM PAIN, 0016320FOR EVERY FURY GAZETH ON HER LOOKS. 0016330INFERNAL DIS IS COURTING OF MY LOVE, 0016340INVENTING MASKS AND STATELY SHOWS FOR HER, 0016350OPENING THE DOORS OF HIS RICH TREASURY 0016351TO ENTERTAIN THIS QUEEN OF CHASTITY, 0016360WHOSE BODY SHALL BE TOMBED WITH ALL THE POMP 0016370THE TREASURE OF MY KINGDOM MAY AFFORD. 0016380HOLLA, YE PAMPERED JADES OF ASIA! 0016390WHAT, CAN YE DRAW BUT TWENTY MILES A DAY, 0016400AND HAVE SO PROUD A CHARIOT AT YOUR HEELS, 0016410AND SUCH A COACHMAN AS GREAT TAMBURLAINE, 0016420BUT FROM ASPHALTIS, WHERE I CONQUERED YOU, 0016430TO BYRON HERE, WHERE THUS I HONOUR YOU? 0016440THE HORSE THAT GUIDE THE GOLDEN EYE OF HEAVEN 0016450AND BLOW THE MORNING FROM THEIR NOSTERILS, 0016460MAKING THEIR FIERY GAIT ABOVE THE CLOUDS, 0016470ARE NOT SO HONOURED IN THEIR GOVERNOR 0016480AS YOU, YE SLAVES, IN MIGHTY TAMBURLAINE. 0016490THE HEADSTRONG JADES OF THRACE ALCIDES TAMED, 0016500THAT KING AEGEUS FED WITH HUMAN FLESH 0016510AND MADE SO WANTON THAT THEY KNEW THEIR STRENGTHS, 0016520WERE NOT SUBDUED WITH VALOUR MORE DIVINE 0016530THAN YOU BY THIS UNCONQUERED ARM OF MINE. 0016540TO MAKE YOU FIERCE AND FIT MY APPETITE, 0016550YOU SHALL BE FED WITH FLESH AS RAW AS BLOOD 0016560AND DRINK IN PAILS THE STRONGEST MUSCADEL. 0016570IF YOU CAN LIVE WITH IT, THEN LIVE, AND DRAW 0016580MY CHARIOT SWIFTER THAN THE RACKING CLOUDS; 0016590IF NOT, THEN DIE LIKE BEASTS, AND FIT FOR NAUGHT 0016600BUT PERCHES FOR THE BLACK AND FATAL RAVENS. 0016610THUS AM I RIGHT THE SCOURGE OF HIGHEST JOVE, 0016620AND SEE THE FIGURE OF MY DIGNITY, 0016630BY WHICH I HOLD MY NAME AND MAJESTY! 0016640LET ME HAVE COACH, MY LORD, THAT I MAY RIDE, 0016650AND THUS BE DRAWN WITH THESE TWO IDLE KINGS. 0016660THY YOUTH FORBIDS SUCH EASE, MY KINGLY BOY. 0016670THEY SHALL TOMORROW DRAW MY CHARIOT, 0016680WHILE THESE THEIR FELLOW-KINGS MAY BE REFRESHED. 0016681O THOU THAT SWAYEST THE REGION UNDER EARTH 0016690AND ART A KING AS ABSOLUTE AS JOVE, 0016700COME AS THOU DIDST IN FRUITFUL SICILY, 0016710SURVEYING ALL THE GLORIES OF THE LAND, 0016720AND AS THOU TOOKEST THE FAIR PROSERPINA, 0016730JOYING THE FRUIT OF CERES' GARDEN-PLOT, 0016740FOR LOVE, FOR HONOUR, AND TO MAKE HER QUEEN, 0016750SO, FOR JUST HATE, FOR SHAME, AND TO SUBDUE 0016760THIS PROUD CONTEMNER OF THY DREADFUL POWER, 0016770COME ONCE IN FURY AND SURVEY HIS PRIDE, 0016780HALING HIM HEADLONG TO THE LOWEST HELL. 0016790YOUR MAJESTY MUST GET SOME BITS FOR THESE, 0016800TO BRIDLE THEIR CONTEMPTUOUS CURSING TONGUES, 0016810THAT, LIKE UNRULY NEVER-BROKEN JADES, 0016820BREAK THROUGH THE HEDGES OF THEIR HATEFUL MOUTHS 0016830AND PASS THEIR FIXED BOUNDS EXCEEDINGLY. 0016840NAY, WE WILL BREAK THE HEDGES OF THEIR MOUTHS, 0016850AND PULL THEIR KICKING COLTS OUT OF THEIR PASTURES. 0016860YOUR MAJESTY ALREADY HATH DEVISED 0016870A MEAN, AS FIT AS MAY BE, TO RESTRAIN 0016880THESE COLTISH COACH-HORSE TONGUES FROM BLASPHEMY. 0016890HOW LIKE YOU THAT, SIR KING? WHY SPEAK YOU NOT? 0016900AH, CRUEL BRAT, SPRUNG FROM A TYRANT'S LOINS! 0016910HOW LIKE HIS CURSED FATHER HE BEGINS 0016920TO PRACTICE TAUNTS AND BITTER TYRANNIES! 0016930AY, TURK, I TELL THEE, THIS SAME BOY IS HE 0016940THAT MUST (ADVANCED IN HIGHER POMP THAN THIS) 0016950RIFLE THE KINGDOMS I SHALL LEAVE UNSACKED, 0016960IF JOVE, ESTEEMING ME TOO GOOD FOR EARTH, 0016970RAISE ME TO MATCH THE FAIR ALDEBAREN, 0016980ABOVE THE THREEFOLD ASTRACISM OF HEAVEN, 0016990BEFORE I CONQUER ALL THE TRIPLE WORLD. 0017000NOW FETCH ME OUT THE TURKISH CONCUBINES. 0017010I WILL PREFER THEM FOR THE FUNERAL 0017020THEY HAVE BESTOWED ON MY ABORTIVE SON. 0017030WHERE ARE MY COMMON SOLDIERS NOW, THAT FOUGHT 0017040SO LION-LIKE UPON ASPHALTIS' PLAINS? 0017050HERE, MY LORD. 0017060HOLD YE, TALL SOLDIERS, TAKE YE QUEENS APIECE - 0017070I MEAN SUCH QUEENS AS WERE KINGS' CONCUBINES. 0017080TAKE THEM; DIVIDE THEM, AND THEIR JEWELS TOO, 0017090AND LET THEM EQUALLY SERVE ALL YOUR TURNS. 0017100WE THANK YOUR MAJESTY. 0017101BRAWL NOT, I WARN YOU, FOR YOUR LECHERY, 0017110FOR EVERY MAN THAT SO OFFENDS SHALL DIE. 0017120INJURIOUS TYRANT, WILT THOU SO DEFAME 0017130THE HATEFUL FORTUNES OF THY VICTORY, 0017140TO EXERCISE UPON SUCH GUILTLESS DAMES 0017150THE VIOLENCE OF THY COMMON SOLDIERS' LUST? 0017160LIVE CONTINENT, THEN, YE SLAVES, AND MEET NOT ME 0017170WITH TROOPS OF HARLOTS AT YOUR SLOTHFUL HEELS. 0017180O PITY US, MY LORD, AND SAVE OUR HONOURS. 0017190ARE YE NOT GONE, YE VILLAINS, WITH YOUR SPOILS? 0017200O, MERCILESS, INFERNAL CRUELTY! 0017210SAVE YOUR HONOURS! IT WERE BUT TIME INDEED, 0017220LOST LONG BEFORE YOU KNEW WHAT HONOUR MEANT. 0017230IT SEEMS THEY MEANT TO CONQUER US, MY LORD, 0017240AND MAKE US JESTING PAGEANTS FOR THEIR TRULLS. 0017250AND NOW THEMSELVES SHALL MAKE OUR PAGEANT, 0017260AND COMMON SOLDIERS JEST WITH ALL THEIR TRULLS. 0017270LET THEM TAKE PLEASURE SOUNDLY IN THEIR SPOILS, 0017280TILL WE PREPARE OUR MARCH TO BABYLON, 0017290WHITHER WE NEXT MAKE EXPEDITION. 0017300LET US NOT BE IDLE, THEN, MY LORD, 0017310BUT PRESENTLY BE PREST TO CONQUER IT. 0017320WE WILL, TECHELLES. FORWARD, THEN, YE JADES. 0017330NOW CROUCH, YE KINGS OF GREATEST ASIA, 0017340AND TREMBLE WHEN YE HEAR THIS SCOURGE WILL COME 0017350THAT WHIPS DOWN CITIES AND CONTROLLETH CROWNS, 0017360ADDING THEIR WEALTH AND TREASURE TO MY STORE. 0017370THE EUXINE SEA, NORTH TO NATOLIA, 0017380THE TERRENE, WEST; THE CASPIAN, NORTH-NORTHEAST, 0017390AND ON THE SOUTH, SINUS ARABICUS, 0017400SHALL ALL BE LOADEN WITH THE MARTIAL SPOILS 0017410WE WILL CONVEY WITH US TO PERSIA. 0017420THEN SHALL MY NATIVE CITY SAMARCANDA, 0017430AND CRYSTAL WAVES OF FRESH JAERTIS' STREAM, 0017440THE PRIDE AND BEAUTY OF HER PRINCELY SEAT, 0017450BE FAMOUS THROUGH THE FURTHEST CONTINENTS; 0017460FOR THERE MY PALACE ROYAL SHALL BE PLACED, 0017470WHOSE SHINING TURRETS SHALL DISMAY THE HEAVENS 0017480AND CAST THE FAME OF ILION'S TOWER TO HELL. 0017490TH0ROUGH THE STREETS, WITH TROOPS OF CONQUERED KINGS, 0017500I WILL RIDE IN GOLDEN ARMOUR LIKE THE SUN, 0017510AND IN MY HELM A TRIPLE PLUME SHALL SPRING, 0017511SPANGLED WITH DIAMONDS, DANCING IN THE AIR, 0017520TO NOTE ME EMPEROR OF THE THREE-FOLD WORLD; 0017530LIKE TO AN ALMOND TREE Y-MOUNTED HIGH 0017540UPON THE LOFTY AND CELESTIAL MOUNT 0017550OF EVER-GREEN SELINUS, QUAINTLY DECKED 0017560WITH BLOOMS MORE WHITE THAN ERYCINA'S BROWS, 0017570WHOSE TENDER BLOSSOMS TREMBLE EVERY ONE 0017580AT EVERY LITTLE BREATH THAT THOROUGH HEAVEN IS BLOWN. 0017590THEN IN MY COACH, LIKE SATURN'S ROYAL SON 0017600MOUNTED HIS SHINING CHARIOT GILT WITH FIRE, 0017610AND DRAWN WITH PRINCELY EAGLES THROUGH THE PATH 0017620PAVED WITH BRIGHT CRYSTAL AND ENCHASED WITH STARS, 0017630WHEN ALL THE GODS STAND GAZING AT HIS POMP, 0017640SO WILL I RIDE THROUGH SAMARCANDA STREETS, 0017650UNTIL MY SOUL, DISSEVERED FROM THIS FLESH, 0017660SHALL MOUNT THE MILK-WHITE WAY, AND MEET HIM THERE. 0017670TO BABYLON, MY LORDS, TO BABYLON! 0017680WHAT SAITH MAXIMUS? 0017690MY LORD, THE BREACH THE ENEMY HATH MADE 0017700GIVES SUCH ASSURANCE OF OUR OVERTHROW, 0017710THAT LITTLE HOPE IS LEFT TO SAVE OUR LIVES 0017720OR HOLD OUR CITY FROM THE CONQUEROR'S HANDS. 0017730THEN HANG OUT FLAGS, MY LORD, OF HUMBLE TRUCE, 0017740AND SATISFY THE PEOPLE'S GENERAL PRAYERS, 0017750THAT TAMBURLAINE'S INTOLERABLE WRATH 0017760MAY BE SUPPRESSED BY OUR SUBMISSION. 0017770VILLAIN, RESPECTEST THOU MORE THY SLAVISH LIFE 0017780THAN HONOUR OF THY COUNTRY OR THY NAME? 0017790IS NOT MY LIFE AND STATE AS DEAR TO ME, 0017800THE CITY AND MY NATIVE COUNTRY'S WEAL, 0017810AS ANYTHING OF PRICE WITH THY CONCEIT? 0017820HAVE WE NOT HOPE, FOR ALL OUR BATTERED WALLS, 0017830TO LIVE SECURE AND KEEP HIS FORCES OUT, 0017840WHEN THIS OUR FAMOUS LAKE OF LIMNASPHALTIS 0017850MAKES WALLS AFRESH WITH EVERYTHING THAT FALLS 0017860INTO THE LIQUID SUBSTANCE OF HIS STREAM, 0017870MORE STRONG THAN ARE THE GATES OF DEATH OR HELL? 0017880WHAT FAINTNESS SHOULD DISMAY OUR COURAGES, 0017890WHEN WE ARE THUS DEFENCED AGAINST OUR FOE, 0017900AND HAVE NO TERROR BUT HIS THREATENING LOOKS? 0017910<1CIT >MY LORD, IF EVER YOU DID DEED OF RUTH, 0017920AND NOW WILL WORK A REFUGE TO OUR LIVES, 0017930OFFER SUBMISSION, HANG UP FLAGS OF TRUCE, 0017940THAT TAMBURLAINE MAY PITY OUR DISTRESS 0017950AND USE US LIKE A LOVING CONQUEROR. 0017960THOUGH THIS BE HELD HIS LAST DAY'S DREADFUL SIEGE, 0017970WHEREIN HE SPARETH NEITHER MAN NOR CHILD, 0017980YET ARE THERE CHRISTIANS OF GEORGIA HERE, 0017990WHOSE STATE HE EVER PITIED AND RELIEVED, 0018000WILL GET HIS PARDON, IF YOUR GRACE WOULD SEND. 0018010HOW IS MY SOUL ENVIRONED! 0018020AND THIS ETERNIZED CITY BABYLON 0018030FILLED WITH A PACK OF FAINT-HEART FUGITIVES 0018040THAT THUS ENTREAT THEIR SHAME AND SERVITUDE! 0018050<2CIT >MY LORD, IF EVER YOU WILL WIN OUR HEARTS, 0018060YIELD UP THE TOWN, AND SAVE OUR WIVES AND CHILDREN; 0018070FOR I WILL CAST MYSELF FROM OFF THESE WALLS 0018080OR DIE SOME DEATH OF QUICKEST VIOLENCE, 0018090BEFORE I BIDE THE WRATH OF TAMBURLAINE. 0018100VILLAINS, COWARDS, TRAITORS TO OUR STATE, 0018110FALL TO THE EARTH, AND PIERCE THE PIT OF HELL, 0018120THAT LEGIONS OF TORMENTING SPIRITS MAY VEX 0018130YOUR SLAVISH BOSOMS WITH CONTINUAL PAINS! 0018140I CARE NOT, NOR THE TOWN WILL NEVER YIELD 0018150AS LONG AS ANY LIFE IS IN MY BREAST. 0018160THOU DESPERATE GOVERNOR OF BABYLON, 0018170TO SAVE THY LIFE, AND US A LITTLE LABOUR, 0018180YIELD SPEEDILY THE CITY TO OUR HANDS, 0018190OR ELSE BE SURE THOU SHALT BE FORCED WITH PAINS 0018200MORE EXQUISITE THAN EVER TRAITOR FELT. 0018210TYRANT, I TURN THE TRAITOR IN THY THROAT, 0018220AND WILL DEFEND IT IN DESPITE OF THEE. 0018230CALL UP THE SOLDIERS TO DEFEND THESE WALLS. 0018240YIELD, FOOLISH GOVERNOR; WE OFFER MORE 0018250THAN EVER YET WE DID TO SUCH PROUD SLAVES 0018260AS DURST RESIST US TILL OUR THIRD DAY'S SIEGE. 0018270THOU SEEST US PREST TO GIVE THE LAST ASSAULT, 0018280AND THAT SHALL BIDE NO MORE REGARD OF PARLEY. 0018290ASSAULT AND SPARE NOT; WE WILL NEVER YIELD. 0018300THE STATELY BUILDINGS OF FAIR BABYLON, 0018310WHOSE LOFTY PILLARS, HIGHER THAN THE CLOUDS, 0018320WERE WONT TO GUIDE THE SEAMAN IN THE DEEP, 0018330BEING CARRIED THITHER BY THE CANNON'S FORCE, 0018340NOW FILL THE MOUTH OF LIMNASPHALTIS' LAKE 0018350AND MAKE A BRIDGE UNTO THE BATTERED WALLS. 0018360WHERE BELUS, NINUS, AND GREAT ALEXANDER 0018370HAVE RODE IN TRIUMPH, TRIUMPHS TAMBURLAINE, 0018380WHOSE CHARIOT WHEELS HAVE BURST THE ASSYRIANS' BONES, 0018390DRAWN WITH THESE KINGS ON HEAPS OF CARCASSES. 0018400NOW IN THE PLACE WHERE FAIR SEMIRAMIS, 0018410COURTED BY KINGS AND PEERS OF ASIA, 0018420HATH TROD THE MEASURES, DO MY SOLDIERS MARCH, 0018430AND IN THE STREETS, WHERE BRAVE ASSYRIAN DAMES 0018440HAVE RID IN POMP LIKE RICH SATURNIA, 0018450WITH FURIOUS WORDS AND FROWNING VISAGES 0018460MY HORSEMEN BRANDISH THEIR UNRULY BLADES. 0018470WHO HAVE YE THERE, MY LORDS? 0018480THE STURDY GOVERNOR OF BABYLON, 0018490THAT MADE US ALL THE LABOUR FOR THE TOWN 0018500AND USED SUCH SLENDER RECKONING OF YOUR MAJESTY. 0018510GO, BIND THE VILLAIN; HE SHALL HANG IN CHAINS 0018520UPON THE RUINS OF THIS CONQUERED TOWN. 0018530SIRRAH, THE VIEW OF OUR VERMILION TENTS 0018540(WHICH THREATENED MORE THAN IF THE REGION 0018550NEXT UNDERNEATH THE ELEMENT OF FIRE 0018560WERE FULL OF COMETS AND OF BLAZING STARS, 0018570WHOSE FLAMING TRAINS SHOULD REACH DOWN TO THE EARTH) 0018580COULD NOT AFFRIGHT YOU; NO, NOR I MYSELF, 0018590THE WRATHFUL MESSENGER OF MIGHTY JOVE, 0018600THAT WITH HIS SWORD HATH QUAILED ALL EARTHLY KINGS, 0018610COULD NOT PERSUADE YOU TO SUBMISSION, 0018620BUT STILL THE PORTS WERE SHUT. VILLAIN, I SAY, 0018630SHOULD I BUT TOUCH THE RUSTY GATES OF HELL, 0018640THE TRIPLE-HEADED CERBERUS WOULD HOWL 0018650AND WAKE BLACK JOVE TO CROUCH AND KNEEL TO ME; 0018660BUT I HAVE SENT VOLLEYS OF SHOT TO YOU, 0018670YET COULD NOT ENTER TILL THE BREACH WAS MADE. 0018680NOR IF MY BODY COULD HAVE STOPPED THE BREACH, 0018690SHOULDST THOU HAVE ENTERED, CRUEL TAMBURLAINE. 0018700IT IS NOT THY BLOODY TENTS CAN MAKE ME YIELD, 0018701NOR YET THYSELF, THE ANGER OF THE HIGHEST, 0018710FOR THOUGH THY CANNON SHOOK THE CITY WALLS, 0018720MY HEART DID NEVER QUAKE OR COURAGE FAINT. 0018730WELL, NOW I WILL MAKE IT QUAKE. GO, DRAW HIM UP; 0018740HANG HIM UP IN CHAINS UPON THE CITY WALLS, 0018750AND LET MY SOLDIERS SHOOT THE SLAVE TO DEATH. 0018760VILE MONSTER, BORN OF SOME INFERNAL HAG, 0018770AND SENT FROM HELL TO TYRANNIZE ON EARTH, 0018780DO ALL THY WORST; NOR DEATH, NOR TAMBURLAINE, 0018790TORTURE, OR PAIN, CAN DAUNT MY DREADLESS MIND. 0018800UP WITH HIM, THEN; HIS BODY SHALL BE SCARRED. 0018810BUT, TAMBURLAINE, IN LIMNASPHALTIS' LAKE 0018820THERE LIES MORE GOLD THAN BABYLON IS WORTH, 0018830WHICH, WHEN THE CITY WAS BESIEGED, I HID. 0018840SAVE BUT MY LIFE, AND I WILL GIVE IT THEE. 0018850THEN, FOR ALL YOUR VALOUR, YOU WOULD SAVE YOUR 0018860LIFE? 0018870WHEREABOUT LIES IT? 0018880UNDER A HOLLOW BANK, RIGHT OPPOSITE 0018890AGAINST THE WESTERN GATE OF BABYLON. 0018900GO THITHER, SOME OF YOU, AND TAKE HIS GOLD. 0018910THE REST FORWARD WITH EXECUTION. 0018920AWAY WITH HIM HENCE; LET HIM SPEAK NO MORE. 0018930I THINK I MAKE YOUR COURAGE SOMETHING QUAIL. 0018940WHEN THIS IS DONE, WE WILL MARCH FROM BABYLON 0018950AND MAKE OUR GREATEST HASTE TO PERSIA. 0018960THESE JADES ARE BROKEN-WINDED AND HALF TIRED; 0018970UNHARNESS THEM, AND LET ME HAVE FRESH HORSE. 0018980SO; NOW THEIR BEST IS DONE TO HONOUR ME, 0018990TAKE THEM AND HANG THEM BOTH UP PRESENTLY. 0019000VILE TYRANT! BARBAROUS BLOODY TAMBURLAINE! 0019010TAKE THEM AWAY, THERIDAMAS; SEE THEM DISPATCHED. 0019020I WILL, MY LORD. 0019030COME, ASIAN VICEROYS, TO YOUR TASKS AWHILE, 0019040AND TAKE SUCH FORTUNE AS YOUR FELLOWS FELT. 0019050FIRST LET THY SCYTHIAN HORSE TEAR BOTH OUR LIMBS, 0019060RATHER THAN WE SHOULD DRAW THY CHARIOT, 0019070AND, LIKE BASE SLAVES, ABJECT OUR PRINCELY MINDS 0019080TO VILE AND IGNOMINIOUS SERVITUDE. 0019090RATHER LEND ME THY WEAPON, TAMBURLAINE, 0019100THAT I MAY SHEATHE IT IN THIS BREAST OF MINE. 0019110A THOUSAND DEATHS COULD NOT TORMENT OUR HEARTS 0019111MORE THAN THE THOUGHT OF THIS DOTH VEX OUR SOULS. 0019120THEY WILL TALK STILL, MY LORD, IF YOU DO NOT 0019130BRIDLE THEM. 0019140BRIDLE THEM, AND LET ME TO MY COACH. 0019150SEE, NOW, MY LORD, HOW BRAVE THE CAPTAIN HANGS. 0019160IT IS BRAVE INDEED MY BOY. WELL DONE! 0019170SHOOT FIRST, MY LORD, AND THEN THE REST SHALL FOLLOW. 0019180THEN HAVE AT HIM, TO BEGIN WITHAL. 0019190YET SAVE MY LIFE, AND LET THIS WOUND APPEASE 0019200THE MORTAL FURY OF GREAT TAMBURLAINE. 0019210NO, THOUGH ASPHALTIS' LAKE WERE LIQUID GOLD, 0019220AND OFFERED ME AS RANSOM FOR THY LIFE, 0019230YET SHOULDST THOU DIE. SHOOT AT HIM ALL AT ONCE. 0019240SO, NOW HE HANGS LIKE BAGDET'S GOVERNOR, 0019250HAVING AS MANY BULLETS IN HIS FLESH 0019260AS THERE BE BREACHES IN HER BATTERED WALL. 0019270GO NOW, AND BIND THE BURGHERS HAND AND FOOT, 0019280AND CAST THEM HEADLONG IN THE CITY'S LAKE. 0019290TARTARS AND PERSIANS SHALL INHABIT THERE; 0019300AND, TO COMMAND THE CITY, I WILL BUILD 0019310A CITADEL, THAT ALL AFRICA, 0019320WHICH HATH BEEN SUBJECT TO THE PERSIAN KING, 0019330SHALL PAY ME TRIBUTE FOR IN BABYLON. 0019340WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN, 0019350MY LORD? 0019360TECHELLES, DROWN THEM ALL, MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD; 0019370LEAVE NOT A BABYLONIAN IN THE TOWN. 0019380I WILL ABOUT IT STRAIGHT. COME, SOLDIERS. 0019390NOW, CASANE, WHERE IS THE TURKISH ALCORAN 0019400AND ALL THE HEAPS OF SUPERSTITIOUS BOOKS 0019410FOUND IN THE TEMPLES OF THAT MAHOMET 0019420WHOM I HAVE THOUGHT A GOD? THEY SHALL BE BURNT. 0019430HERE THEY ARE, MY LORD. 0019440WELL SAID; LET THERE BE A FIRE PRESENTLY. 0019450IN VAIN, I SEE, MEN WORSHIP MAHOMET. 0019460MY SWORD HATH SENT MILLIONS OF TURKS TO HELL, 0019470SLEW ALL HIS PRIESTS, HIS KINSMEN, AND HIS FRIENDS, 0019480AND YET I LIVE UNTOUCHED BY MAHOMET. 0019490THERE IS A GOD, FULL OF REVENGING WRATH, 0019500FROM WHOM THE THUNDER AND THE LIGHTNING BREAKS, 0019510WHOSE SCOURGE I AM, AND HIM WILL I OBEY. 0019520SO, CASANE; FLING THEM IN THE FIRE. 0019521NOW, MAHOMET, IF THOU HAVE ANY POWER, 0019530COME DOWN THYSELF AND WORK A MIRACLE. 0019540THOU ART NOT WORTHY TO BE WORSHIPPED 0019550THAT SUFFERS FLAMES OF FIRE TO BURN THE WRIT 0019560WHEREIN THE SUM OF THY RELIGION RESTS. 0019570WHY SENDEST THOU NOT A FURIOUS WHIRLWIND DOWN 0019580TO BLOW THY ALCORAN UP TO THY THRONE, 0019590WHERE MEN REPORT THOU SITTEST BY GOD HIMSELF? 0019600OR VENGEANCE ON THE HEAD OF TAMBURLAINE 0019610THAT SHAKES HIS SWORD AGAINST THY MAJESTY 0019620AND SPURNS THE ABSTRACTS OF THY FOOLISH LAWS? 0019630WELL, SOLDIERS, MAHOMET REMAINS IN HELL; 0019640HE CANNOT HEAR THE VOICE OF TAMBURLAINE. 0019650SEEK OUT ANOTHER GODHEAD TO ADORE - 0019660THE GOD THAT SITS IN HEAVEN, IF ANY GOD, 0019670FOR HE IS GOD ALONE, AND NONE BUT HE. 0019680I HAVE FULFILLED YOUR HIGHNESS' WILL, MY LORD. 0019690THOUSANDS OF MEN, DROWNED IN ASPHALTIS' LAKE, 0019700HAVE MADE THE WATER SWELL ABOVE THE BANKS, 0019710AND FISHES, FED BY HUMAN CARCASSES, 0019720AMAZED, SWIM UP AND DOWN UPON THE WAVES, 0019730AS WHEN THEY SWALLOW ASAFOETIDA, 0019740WHICH MAKES THEM FLEET ALOFT AND GASP FOR AIR. 0019750WELL, THEN, MY FRIENDLY LORDS, WHAT NOW REMAINS, 0019760BUT THAT WE LEAVE SUFFICIENT GARRISON 0019770AND PRESENTLY DEPART TO PERSIA, 0019780TO TRIUMPH AFTER ALL OUR VICTORIES? 0019790AY, GOOD MY LORD, LET US IN HASTE TO PERSIA; 0019800AND LET THIS CAPTAIN BE REMOVED THE WALLS 0019810TO SOME HIGH HILL ABOUT THE CITY HERE. 0019820LET IT BE SO; ABOUT IT, SOLDIERS. 0019830BUT STAY; I FEEL MYSELF DISTEMPERED SUDDENLY. 0019840WHAT IS IT DARES DISTEMPER TAMBURLAINE? 0019850SOMETHING, TECHELLES; BUT I KNOW NOT WHAT. 0019860BUT, FORTH, YE VASSALS! WHATSOEVER IT BE, 0019870SICKNESS OR DEATH CAN NEVER CONQUER ME. 0019880KING OF AMASIA, NOW OUR MIGHTY HOST 0019890MARCHETH IN ASIA MAJOR, WHERE THE STREAMS 0019900OF EUPHRATES AND TIGRIS SWIFTLY RUNS; 0019910AND HERE MAY WE BEHOLD GREAT BABYLON, 0019920CIRCLED ABOUT WITH LIMNASPHALTIS' LAKE, 0019930WHERE TAMBURLAINE WITH ALL HIS ARMY LIES, 0019940WHICH BEING FAINT AND WEARY WITH THE SIEGE, 0019941WE MAY LIE READY TO ENCOUNTER HIM 0019950BEFORE HIS HOST BE FULL FROM BABYLON, 0019960AND SO REVENGE OUR LATEST GRIEVOUS LOSS, 0019970IF GOD OR MAHOMET SEND ANY AID. 0019980DOUBT NOT, MY LORD, BUT WE SHALL CONQUER HIM. 0019990THE MONSTER THAT HATH DRUNK A SEA OF BLOOD 0020000AND YET GAPES STILL FOR MORE TO QUENCH HIS THIRST, 0020010OUR TURKISH SWORDS SHALL HEADLONG SEND TO HELL; 0020020AND THAT VILE CARCASS, DRAWN BY WARLIKE KINGS, 0020030THE FOWLS SHALL EAT; FOR NEVER SEPULCHRE 0020040SHALL GRACE THIS BASE-BORN TYRANT TAMBURLAINE. 0020050WHEN I RECORD MY PARENTS' SLAVISH LIFE, 0020060THEIR CRUEL DEATH, MINE OWN CAPTIVITY, 0020070MY VICEROYS' BONDAGE UNDER TAMBURLAINE, 0020080METHINKS I COULD SUSTAIN A THOUSAND DEATHS 0020090TO BE REVENGED OF ALL HIS VILLAINY. 0020100AH, SACRED MAHOMET, THOU THAT HAST SEEN 0020110MILLIONS OF TURKS PERISH BY TAMBURLAINE, 0020120KINGDOMS MADE WASTE, BRAVE CITIES SACKED AND BURNT, 0020130AND BUT ONE HOST IS LEFT TO HONOUR THEE, 0020140AID THY OBEDIENT SERVANT CALLAPINE, 0020150AND MAKE HIM, AFTER ALL THESE OVERTHROWS, 0020160TO TRIUMPH OVER CURSED TAMBURLAINE. 0020170FEAR NOT, MY LORD. I SEE GREAT MAHOMET, 0020180CLOTHED IN PURPLE CLOUDS, AND ON HIS HEAD 0020190A CHAPLET BRIGHTER THAN APOLLO'S CROWN, 0020200MARCHING ABOUT THE AIR WITH ARMED MEN, 0020210TO JOIN WITH YOU AGAINST THIS TAMBURLAINE. 0020220RENOWNED GENERAL, MIGHTY CALLAPINE, 0020230THOUGH GOD HIMSELF AND HOLY MAHOMET 0020240SHOULD COME IN PERSON TO RESIST YOUR POWER, 0020250YET MIGHT YOUR MIGHTY HOST ENCOUNTER ALL, 0020260AND PULL PROUD TAMBURLAINE UPON HIS KNEES 0020270TO SUE FOR MERCY AT YOUR HIGHNESS' FEET. 0020280CAPTAIN, THE FORCE OF TAMBURLAINE IS GREAT, 0020290HIS FORTUNE GREATER, AND THE VICTORIES 0020300WHEREWITH HE HATH SO SORE DISMAYED THE WORLD 0020310ARE GREATEST TO DISCOURAGE ALL OUR DRIFTS; 0020320YET WHEN THE PRIDE OF CYNTHIA IS AT FULL, 0020330SHE WANES AGAIN, AND SO SHALL HIS, I HOPE; 0020340FOR WE HAVE HERE THE CHIEF SELECTED MEN 0020350OF TWENTY SEVERAL KINGDOMS AT THE LEAST. 0020360NOR PLOUGHMAN, PRIEST, NOR MERCHANT, STAYS AT HOME; 0020370ALL TURKEY IS IN ARMS WITH CALLAPINE; 0020380AND NEVER WILL WE SUNDER CAMPS AND ARMS 0020381BEFORE HIMSELF OR HIS BE CONQUERED. 0020390THIS IS THE TIME THAT MUST ETERNIZE ME 0020400FOR CONQUERING THE TYRANT OF THE WORLD. 0020410COME, SOLDIERS, LET US LIE IN WAIT FOR HIM, 0020420AND IF WE FIND HIM ABSENT FROM HIS CAMP, 0020430OR THAT IT BE REJOINED AGAIN AT FULL, 0020440ASSAIL IT AND BE SURE OF VICTORY. 0020450WEEP, HEAVENS, AND VANISH INTO LIQUID TEARS! 0020460FALL, STARS THAT GOVERN HIS NATIVITY, 0020470AND SUMMON ALL THE SHINING LAMPS OF HEAVEN 0020480TO CAST THEIR BOOTLESS FIRES TO THE EARTH 0020490AND SHED THEIR FEEBLE INFLUENCE IN THE AIR. 0020500MUFFLE YOUR BEAUTIES WITH ETERNAL CLOUDS, 0020510FOR HELL AND DARKNESS PITCH THEIR PITCHY TENTS, 0020520AND DEATH, WITH ARMIES OF CIMMERIAN SPIRITS, 0020530GIVES BATTLE AGAINST THE HEART OF TAMBURLAINE. 0020540NOW IN DEFIANCE OF THAT WONTED LOVE 0020550YOUR SACRED VIRTUES POURED UPON HIS THRONE, 0020560AND MADE HIS STATE AN HONOUR TO THE HEAVENS, 0020570THESE COWARDS INVISIBLY ASSAIL HIS SOUL 0020580AND THREATEN CONQUEST ON OUR SOVEREIGN. 0020590BUT IF HE DIE, YOUR GLORIES ARE DISGRACED, 0020600EARTH DROOPS AND SAYS THAT HELL IN HEAVEN IS PLACED. 0020610O, THEN, YE POWERS THAT SWAY ETERNAL SEATS 0020620AND GUIDE THIS MASSY SUBSTANCE OF THE EARTH, 0020630IF YOU RETAIN DESERT OF HOLINESS, 0020640AS YOUR SUPREME ESTATES INSTRUCT OUR THOUGHTS, 0020650BE NOT INCONSTANT, CARELESS OF YOUR FAME, 0020660BEAR NOT THE BURDEN OF YOUR ENEMIES' JOYS, 0020670TRIUMPHING IN HIS FALL WHOM YOU ADVANCED, 0020680BUT AS HIS BIRTH, LIFE, HEALTH, AND MAJESTY 0020690WERE STRANGELY BLESSED AND GOVERNED BY HEAVEN, 0020700SO HONOUR, HEAVEN (TILL HEAVEN DISSOLVED BE,) 0020710HIS BIRTH, HIS LIFE, HIS HEALTH, AND MAJESTY! 0020720BLUSH, HEAVEN, TO LOSE THE HONOUR OF THY NAME, 0020730TO SEE THY FOOTSTOOL SET UPON THY HEAD; 0020740AND LET NO BASENESS IN THY HAUGHTY BREAST 0020750SUSTAIN A SHAME OF SUCH INEXCELLENCE, 0020760TO SEE THE DEVILS MOUNT IN ANGELS' THRONES, 0020770AND ANGELS DIVE INTO THE POOLS OF HELL. 0020780AND THOUGH THEY THINK THEIR PAINFUL DATE IS OUT 0020781AND THAT THEIR POWER IS PUISSANT AS JOVE'S, 0020790WHICH MAKES THEM MANAGE ARMS AGAINST THY STATE, 0020800YET MAKE THEM FEEL THE STRENGTH OF TAMBURLAINE, 0020810(THY INSTRUMENT AND NOTE OF MAJESTY) 0020820IS GREATER FAR THAN THEY CAN THUS SUBDUE; 0020830FOR, IF HE DIE, THY GLORY IS DISGRACED, 0020840EARTH DROOPS AND SAYS THAT HELL IN HEAVEN IS PLACED. 0020850WHAT DARING GOD TORMENTS MY BODY THUS 0020860AND SEEKS TO CONQUER MIGHTY TAMBURLAINE? 0020870SHALL SICKNESS PROVE ME NOW TO BE A MAN, 0020880THAT HAVE BEEN TERMED THE TERROR OF THE WORLD? 0020890TECHELLES AND THE REST, COME, TAKE YOUR SWORDS, 0020900AND THREATEN HIM WHOSE HAND AFFLICTS MY SOUL. 0020910COME, LET US MARCH AGAINST THE POWERS OF HEAVEN 0020920AND SET BLACK STREAMERS IN THE FIRMAMENT 0020930TO SIGNIFY THE SLAUGHTER OF THE GODS. 0020940AH, FRIENDS, WHAT SHALL I DO? I CANNOT STAND, 0020950COME, CARRY ME TO WAR AGAINST THE GODS, 0020960THAT THUS ENVY THE HEALTH OF TAMBURLAINE. 0020970AH, GOOD MY LORD, LEAVE THESE IMPATIENT WORDS 0020980WHICH ADD MUCH DANGER TO YOUR MALADY. 0020990WHY, SHALL I SIT AND LANGUISH IN THIS PAIN? 0021000NO, STRIKE THE DRUMS, AND, IN REVENGE OF THIS, 0021010COME, LET US CHARGE OUR SPEARS, AND PIERCE HIS BREAST 0021020WHOSE SHOULDERS BEAR THE AXIS OF THE WORLD, 0021030THAT IF I PERISH, HEAVEN AND EARTH MAY FADE. 0021040THERIDAMAS, HASTE TO THE COURT OF JOVE; 0021050WILL HIM TO SEND APOLLO HITHER STRAIGHT 0021060TO CURE ME, OR I WILL FETCH HIM DOWN MYSELF. 0021070SIT STILL, MY GRACIOUS LORD; THIS GRIEF WILL CEASE 0021080AND CANNOT LAST, IT IS SO VIOLENT. 0021090NOT LAST, TECHELLES? NO, FOR I SHALL DIE. 0021100SEE WHERE MY SLAVE, THE UGLY MONSTER DEATH, 0021110SHAKING AND QUIVERING, PALE AND WAN FOR FEAR, 0021120STANDS AIMING AT ME WITH HIS MURDERING DART, 0021130WHO FLIES AWAY AT EVERY GLANCE I GIVE, 0021140AND WHEN I LOOK AWAY, COMES STEALING ON. 0021150VILLAIN, AWAY, AND HIE THEE TO THE FIELD! 0021160I AND MINE ARMY COME TO LOAD THY BARK 0021170WITH SOULS OF THOUSAND MANGLED CARCASSES. 0021180LOOK, WHERE HE GOES! BUT SEE, HE COMES AGAIN 0021190BECAUSE I STAY. TECHELLES, LET US MARCH 0021191AND WEARY DEATH WITH BEARING SOULS TO HELL. 0021200<1PHSY >PLEASETH YOUR MAJESTY TO DRINK THIS POTION, 0021210WHICH WILL ABATE THE FURY OF YOUR FIT 0021220AND CAUSE SOME MILDER SPIRITS GOVERN YOU. 0021230TELL ME, WHAT THINK YOU OF MY SICKNESS NOW? 0021240<1PHSY >I VIEWED YOUR URINE, AND THE HYPOSTASIS, 0021250THICK AND OBSCURE, DOTH MAKE YOUR DANGER GREAT. 0021260YOUR VEINS ARE FULL OF ACCIDENTAL HEAT, 0021270WHEREBY THE MOISTURE OF YOUR BLOOD IS DRIED. 0021280THE HUMIDUM AND CALOR, WHICH SOME HOLD 0021290IS NOT A PARCEL OF THE ELEMENTS, 0021300BUT OF A SUBSTANCE MORE DIVINE AND PURE, 0021310IS ALMOST CLEAN EXTINGUISHED AND SPENT, 0021320WHICH, BEING THE CAUSE OF LIFE, IMPORTS YOUR DEATH. 0021330BESIDES, MY LORD, THIS DAY IS CRITICAL, 0021340DANGEROUS TO THOSE WHOSE CRISIS IS AS YOURS. 0021350YOUR ARTIERS, WHICH ALONGST THE VEINS CONVEY 0021360THE LIVELY SPIRITS WHICH THE HEART ENGENDERS, 0021370ARE PARCHED AND VOID OF SPIRIT, THAT THE SOUL, 0021380WANTING THOSE ORGANONS BY WHICH IT MOVES, 0021390CANNOT ENDURE, BY ARGUMENT OF ART. 0021400YET, IF YOUR MAJESTY MAY ESCAPE THIS DAY, 0021410NO DOUBT BUT YOU SHALL SOON RECOVER ALL. 0021420THEN WILL I COMFORT ALL MY VITAL PARTS, 0021430AND LIVE, IN SPITE OF DEATH, ABOVE A DAY. 0021440MY LORD, YOUNG CALLAPINE, THAT LATELY FLED FROM 0021450YOUR MAJESTY, HATH NOW GATHERED A FRESH ARMY, AND 0021460HEARING YOUR ABSENCE IN THE FIELD, OFFERS TO SET UPON 0021470US PRESENTLY. 0021480SEE, MY PHYSICIANS, NOW, HOW JOVE HATH SENT 0021490A PRESENT MEDICINE TO RECURE MY PAIN. 0021500MY LOOKS SHALL MAKE THEM FLY; AND MIGHT I FOLLOW, 0021510THERE SHOULD NOT ONE OF ALL THE VILLAIN'S POWER 0021520LIVE TO GIVE OFFER OF ANOTHER FIGHT. 0021530I JOY, MY LORD, YOUR HIGHNESS IS SO STRONG, 0021540THAT CAN ENDURE SO WELL YOUR ROYAL PRESENCE, 0021550WHICH ONLY WILL DISMAY THE ENEMY. 0021560I KNOW IT WILL, CASANE. DRAW, YOU SLAVES! 0021570IN SPITE OF DEATH, I WILL GO SHOW MY FACE. 0021580THUS ARE THE VILLAINS, COWARDS FLED FOR FEAR, 0021581LIKE SUMMER'S VAPOURS VANISHED BY THE SUN; 0021590AND COULD I BUT AWHILE PURSUE THE FIELD, 0021600THAT CALLAPINE SHOULD BE MY SLAVE AGAIN. 0021610BUT I PERCEIVE MY MARTIAL STRENGTH IS SPENT. 0021620IN VAIN I STRIVE AND RAIL AGAINST THOSE POWERS 0021630THAT MEAN TO INVEST ME IN A HIGHER THRONE, 0021640AS MUCH TOO HIGH FOR THIS DISDAINFUL EARTH. 0021650GIVE ME A MAP; THEN LET ME SEE HOW MUCH 0021660IS LEFT FOR ME TO CONQUER ALL THE WORLD, 0021670THAT THESE, MY BOYS, MAY FINISH ALL MY WANTS. 0021680HERE I BEGAN TO MARCH TOWARDS PERSIA, 0021690ALONG ARMENIA AND THE CASPIAN SEA, 0021700AND THENCE UNTO BITHYNIA, WHERE I TOOK 0021710THE TURK AND HIS GREAT EMPRESS PRISONERS. 0021720THEN MARCHED I INTO EGYPT AND ARABIA; 0021730AND HERE, NOT FAR FROM ALEXANDRIA, 0021740WHEREAS THE TERRENE AND THE RED SEA MEET, 0021750BEING DISTANT LESS THAN FULL A HUNDRED LEAGUES, 0021760I MEANT TO CUT A CHANNEL TO THEM BOTH, 0021770THAT MEN MIGHT QUICKLY SAIL TO INDIA. 0021780FROM THENCE TO NUBIA NEAR BORNO LAKE, 0021790AND SO ALONG THE ETHIOPIAN SEA, 0021800CUTTING THE TROPIC LINE OF CAPRICORN, 0021810I CONQUERED ALL AS FAR AS ZANZIBAR. 0021820THEN, BY THE NORTHERN PART OF AFRICA, 0021830I CAME AT LAST TO GRAECIA, AND FROM THENCE 0021840TO ASIA, WHERE I STAY AGAINST MY WILL; 0021850WHICH IS FROM SCYTHIA, WHERE I FIRST BEGAN, 0021860BACKWARD AND FORWARDS NEAR FIVE THOUSAND LEAGUES. 0021870LOOK HERE, MY BOYS; SEE, WHAT A WORLD OF GROUND 0021880LIES WESTWARD FROM THE MIDST OF CANCER'S LINE 0021890UNTO THE RISING OF THIS EARTHLY GLOBE, 0021900WHEREAS THE SUN, DECLINING FROM OUR SIGHT, 0021910BEGINS THE DAY WITH OUR ANTIPODES. 0021920AND SHALL I DIE, AND THIS UNCONQUERED? 0021930LO, HERE, MY SONS, ARE ALL THE GOLDEN MINES, 0021940INESTIMABLE DRUGS AND PRECIOUS STONES, 0021950MORE WORTH THAN ASIA AND THE WORLD BESIDE; 0021960AND FROM THE ANTARCTIC POLE EASTWARD BEHOLD 0021970AS MUCH MORE LAND, WHICH NEVER WAS DESCRIED, 0021980WHEREIN ARE ROCKS OF PEARL THAT SHINE AS BRIGHT 0021990AS ALL THE LAMPS THAT BEAUTIFY THE SKY. 0022000AND SHALL I DIE, AND THIS UNCONQUERED? 0022010HERE, LOVELY BOYS; WHAT DEATH FORBIDS MY LIFE, 0022011THAT LET YOUR LIVES COMMAND IN SPITE OF DEATH. 0022020ALAS, MY LORD, HOW SHOULD OUR BLEEDING HEARTS, 0022030WOUNDED AND BROKEN WITH YOUR HIGHNESS' GRIEF, 0022040RETAIN A THOUGHT OF JOY OR SPARK OF LIFE? 0022050YOUR SOUL GIVES ESSENCE TO OUR WRETCHED SUBJECTS, 0022060WHOSE MATTER IS INCORPORATE IN YOUR FLESH. 0022070YOUR PAINS DO PIERCE OUR SOULS; NO HOPE SURVIVES, 0022080FOR BY YOUR LIFE WE ENTERTAIN OUR LIVES. 0022090BUT, SONS, THIS SUBJECT, NOT OF FORCE ENOUGH 0022100TO HOLD THE FIERY SPIRIT IT CONTAINS, 0022110MUST PART, IMPARTING HIS IMPRESSIONS 0022120BY EQUAL PORTIONS INTO BOTH YOUR BREASTS. 0022130MY FLESH, DIVIDED IN YOUR PRECIOUS SHAPES, 0022140SHALL STILL RETAIN MY SPIRIT, THOUGH I DIE, 0022150AND LIVE IN ALL YOUR SEEDS IMMORTALLY. 0022160THEN NOW REMOVE ME, THAT I MAY RESIGN 0022170MY PLACE AND PROPER TITLE TO MY SON. 0022180FIRST, TAKE MY SCOURGE AND MY IMPERIAL CROWN, 0022190AND MOUNT MY ROYAL CHARIOT OF ESTATE, 0022200THAT I MAY SEE THEE CROWNED BEFORE I DIE. 0022210HELP ME, MY LORDS, TO MAKE MY LAST REMOVE. 0022220A WOEFUL CHANGE, MY LORD, THAT DAUNTS OUR THOUGHTS 0022230MORE THAN THE RUIN OF OUR PROPER SOULS. 0022240SIT UP, MY SON, LET ME SEE HOW WELL 0022250THOU WILT BECOME THY FATHER'S MAJESTY. 0022260WITH WHAT A FLINTY BOSOM SHOULD I JOY 0022270THE BREATH OF LIFE AND BURDEN OF MY SOUL, 0022280IF NOT RESOLVED INTO RESOLVED PAINS, 0022290MY BODY'S MORTIFIED LINEAMENTS 0022300SHOULD EXERCISE THE MOTIONS OF MY HEART, 0022310PIERCED WITH THE JOY OF ANY DIGNITY! 0022320O FATHER, IF THE UNRELENTING EARS 0022330OF DEATH AND HELL BE SHUT AGAINST MY PRAYERS, 0022340AND THAT THE SPITEFUL INFLUENCE OF HEAVEN 0022350DENY MY SOUL FRUITION OF HER JOY, 0022360HOW SHOULD I STEP OR STIR MY HATEFUL FEET 0022370AGAINST THE INWARD POWERS OF MY HEART, 0022380LEADING A LIFE THAT ONLY STRIVES TO DIE, 0022390AND PLEAD IN VAIN UNPLEASING SOVEREIGNTY? 0022400LET NOT THY LOVE EXCEED THINE HONOUR, SON, 0022410NOR BAR THY MIND THAT MAGNANIMITY 0022420THAT NOBLY MUST ADMIT NECESSITY. 0022430SIT UP, MY BOY, AND WITH THESE SILKEN REINS 0022440BRIDLE THE STEELED STOMACHS OF THOSE JADES. 0022441MY LORD, YOU MUST OBEY HIS MAJESTY, 0022450SINCE FATE COMMANDS AND PROUD NECESSITY. 0022460HEAVENS WITNESS ME WITH WHAT A BROKEN HEART 0022470AND DAMNED SPIRIT I ASCEND THIS SEAT, 0022480AND SEND MY SOUL, BEFORE MY FATHER DIE, 0022490HIS ANGUISH AND HIS BURNING AGONY! 0022500NOW FETCH THE HEARSE OF FAIR ZENOCRATE. 0022510LET IT BE PLACED BY THIS MY FATAL CHAIR, 0022520AND SERVE AS PARCEL OF MY FUNERAL. 0022530THEN FEELS YOUR MAJESTY NO SOVEREIGN EASE, 0022540NOR MAY OUR HEARTS, ALL DROWNED IN TEARS OF BLOOD, 0022550JOY ANY HOPE OF YOUR RECOVERY? 0022560CASANE, NO. THE MONARCH OF THE EARTH, 0022570AND EYELESS MONSTER THAT TORMENTS MY SOUL, 0022580CANNOT BEHOLD THE TEARS YE SHED FOR ME, 0022590AND THEREFORE STILL AUGMENTS HIS CRUELTY. 0022600THEN LET SOME GOD OPPOSE HIS HOLY POWER 0022610AGAINST THE WRATH AND TYRANNY OF DEATH, 0022620THAT HIS TEAR-THIRSTY AND UNQUENCHED HATE 0022630MAY BE UPON HIMSELF REVERBERATE! 0022640NOW, EYES, ENJOY YOUR LATEST BENEFIT, 0022650AND WHEN MY SOUL HATH VIRTUE OF YOUR SIGHT, 0022660PIERCE THROUGH THE COFFIN AND THE SHEET OF GOLD, 0022670AND GLUT YOUR LONGINGS WITH A HEAVEN OF JOY. 0022680SO, REIGN, MY SON; SCOURGE AND CONTROL THOSE SLAVES, 0022690GUIDING THY CHARIOT WITH THY FATHER'S HAND. 0022700AS PRECIOUS IS THE CHARGE THOU UNDERTAKEST 0022710AS THAT WHICH CLYMENE'S BRAINSICK SON DID GUIDE, 0022720WHEN WANDERING PHOEBE'S IVORY CHEEKS WERE SCORCHED, 0022730AND ALL THE EARTH, LIKE AETNA, BREATHING FIRE. 0022740BE WARNED BY HIM, THEN; LEARN WITH AWFUL EYE 0022750TO SWAY A THRONE AS DANGEROUS AS HIS; 0022760FOR IF THY BODY THRIVE NOT FULL OF THOUGHTS 0022770AS PURE AND FIERY AS PHYTEUS' BEAMS, 0022780THE NATURE OF THESE PROUD REBELLING JADES 0022790WILL TAKE OCCASION BY THE SLENDEREST HAIR 0022800AND DRAW THEE PIECEMEAL, LIKE HIPPOLYTUS, 0022810THROUGH ROCKS MORE STEEP AND SHARP THAN CASPIAN 0022820CLIFFS. 0022830THE NATURE OF THY CHARIOT WILL NOT BEAR 0022840A GUIDE OF BASER TEMPER THAN MYSELF, 0022850MORE THAN HEAVEN'S COACH THE PRIDE OF PHAETON. 0022860FAREWELL, MY BOYS! MY DEAREST FRIENDS, FAREWELL! 0022861MY BODY FEELS, MY SOUL DOTH WEEP TO SEE 0022870YOUR SWEET DESIRES DEPRIVED MY COMPANY, 0022880FOR TAMBURLAINE, THE SCOURGE OF GOD, MUST DIE. 0022890MEET HEAVEN AND EARTH, AND HERE LET ALL THINGS END, 0022900FOR EARTH HATH SPENT THE PRIDE OF ALL HER FRUIT, 0022910AND HEAVEN CONSUMED HIS CHOICEST LIVING FIRE. 0022920LET EARTH AND HEAVEN HIS TIMELESS DEATH DEPLORE, 0022930FOR BOTH THEIR WORTHS WILL EQUAL HIM NO MORE.