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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Tamburlaine the Great, Part I. + +Author: Christopher Marlowe + +Release Date: August 5, 2008 [EBook #1094] +Last Updated: January 15, 2013 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT, PART I. *** + + + + +Produced by Gary R. Young, and David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <h1> + TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT, + </h1> + <h2> + IN TWO PARTS. + </h2> + <h4> + This is Part I. + </h4> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <h2> + By Christopher Marlowe + </h2> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <h3> + Edited By The Rev. Alexander Dyce. + </h3> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1589/1589-h/1589-h.htm"><b>Skip + to Part II.</b></a> + </p> + <div class="mynote"> + TRANSCRIBER'S COMMENTS ON THE PREPARATION OF THE E-TEXT: SQUARE BRACKETS: + <p> + The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, without + change, except that the stage directions usually do not have closing + brackets. These have been added. + </p> + FOOTNOTES: + <p> + For this E-Text version of the book, the footnotes have been + consolidated at the end of the play. + </p> + <p> + Numbering of the footnotes has been changed, and each footnote is given + a unique identity in the form [XXX]. + </p> + CHANGES TO THE TEXT: + <p> + Character names were expanded. For Example, TAMBURLAINE was TAMB., + ZENOCRATE was ZENO., etc. + </p> + <p> + GREEK: One word, appearing in note 115, was printed in Greek Characters. + This word has been transliterated as [deiktikos]. + </p> + <br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p class="toc"> + <big><b>CONTENTS</b></big> + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0002"> TO THE GENTLEMEN-READERS AND OTHERS THAT TAKE + PLEASURE </a> + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0003"> <big><b>THE FIRST PART OF TAMBURLAINE THE + GREAT.</b></big> </a> + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0004"> <b>ACT I.</b> </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#linkscene11"> SCENE I. </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0005"> SCENE II. </a> + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0006"> <b>ACT II.</b> </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0007"> SCENE I. </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0008"> SCENE II. </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0009"> SCENE III. </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0010"> SCENE IV. </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0011"> SCENE V. </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0012"> SCENE VI. </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0013"> SCENE VII. </a> + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0014"> <b>ACT III.</b> </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0015"> SCENE I. </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0016"> SCENE II. </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0017"> SCENE III. </a> + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0018"> <b>ACT IV.</b> </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0019"> SCENE I. </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0020"> SCENE II. </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0021"> SCENE III. </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0022"> SCENE IV. </a> + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0023"> <b>ACT V.</b> </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0024"> SCENE I. </a> + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_FOOT"> FOOTNOTES </a> + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Tamburlaine the Great. Who, from a Scythian Shephearde + by his rare and woonderfull Conquests, became a most + puissant and mightye Monarque. And (for his tyranny, + and terrour in Warre) was tearmed, The Scourge of God. + Deuided into two Tragicall Discourses, as they were + sundrie times shewed vpon Stages in the Citie of London. + By the right honorable the Lord Admyrall, his seruauntes. + Now first, and newlie published. London. Printed by + Richard Ihones: at the signe of the Rose and Crowne + neere Holborne Bridge. 1590. 4to. +</pre> + <p> + The above title-page is pasted into a copy of the FIRST PART OF + TAMBURLAINE in the Library at Bridge-water House; which copy, excepting + that title-page and the Address to the Readers, is the impression of 1605. + I once supposed that the title-pages which bear the dates 1605 and 1606 + (see below) had been added to the 4tos of the TWO PARTS of the play + originally printed in 1590; but I am now convinced that both PARTS were + really reprinted, THE FIRST PART in 1605, and THE SECOND PART in 1606, and + that nothing remains of the earlier 4tos, except the title-page and the + Address to the Readers, which are preserved in the Bridge- water + collection. + </p> + <p> + In the Bodleian Library, Oxford, is an 8vo edition of both PARTS OF + TAMBURLAINE, dated 1590: the title-page of THE FIRST PART agrees verbatim + with that given above; the half-title-page of THE SECOND PART is as + follows; + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + The Second Part of The bloody Conquests of mighty + Tamburlaine. With his impassionate fury, for the death + of his Lady and loue faire Zenocrate; his fourme of + exhortacion and discipline to his three sons, and the + maner of his own death. +</pre> + <p> + In the Garrick Collection, British Museum, is an 8vo edition of both PARTS + dated 1592: the title-page of THE FIRST PART runs thus; + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Tamburlaine the Great. Who, from a Scythian Shepheard, + by his rare and wonderfull Conquestes, became a most + puissant and mightie Mornarch [sic]: And (for his + tyrannie, and terrour in warre) was tearmed, The Scourge + of God. The first part of the two Tragicall discourses, + as they were sundrie times most stately shewed vpon + Stages in the Citie of London. By the right honorable + the Lord Admirall, his seruauntes. Now newly published. + Printed by Richard Iones, dwelling at the signe of the + Rose and Crowne neere Holborne Bridge. +</pre> + <p> + The half-title-page of THE SECOND PART agrees exactly with that already + given. Perhaps the 8vo at Oxford and that in the British Museum (for I + have not had an opportunity of comparing them) are the same impression, + differing only in the title-pages. + </p> + <p> + Langbaine (ACCOUNT OF ENGL. DRAM. POETS, p. 344) mentions an 8vo dated + 1593. + </p> + <p> + The title-pages of the latest impressions of THE TWO PARTS are as follows; + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Tamburlaine the Greate. Who, from the state of a + Shepheard in Scythia, by his rare and wonderfull + Conquests, became a most puissant and mighty Monarque. + London Printed for Edward White, and are to be solde + at the little North doore of Saint Paules-Church, at + the signe of the Gunne, 1605. 4to. + + Tamburlaine the Greate. With his impassionate furie, + for the death of his Lady and Loue fair Zenocrate: his + forme of exhortation and discipline to his three Sonnes, + and the manner of his owne death. The second part. + London Printed by E. A. for Ed. White, and are to be + solde at his Shop neere the little North doore of Saint + Paules Church at the Signe of the Gun. 1606. 4to. +</pre> + <p> + The text of the present edition is given from the 8vo of 1592, collated + with the 4tos of 1605-6. + </p> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + TO THE GENTLEMEN-READERS <a href="#linknote-1" name="linknoteref-1" + id="linknoteref-1"><small>1</small></a> AND OTHERS THAT TAKE PLEASURE + </h2> + <p> + IN READING HISTORIES. <a href="#linknote-2" name="linknoteref-2" + id="linknoteref-2"><small>2</small></a> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +Gentlemen and courteous readers whosoever: I have here published +in print, for your sakes, the two tragical discourses of the +Scythian shepherd Tamburlaine, that became so great a conqueror +and so mighty a monarch. My hope is, that they will be now no +less acceptable unto you to read after your serious affairs and +studies than they have been lately delightful for many of you to +see when the same were shewed in London upon stages. I have +purposely omitted and left out some fond <a href="#linknote-3" + name="linknoteref-3" id="linknoteref-3">3</a> and frivolous +gestures, +digressing, and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter, +which I thought might seem more tedious unto the wise than any +way else to be regarded, though haply they have been of some +vain-conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what time they were +shewed upon the stage in their graced deformities: nevertheless +now to be mixtured in print with such matter of worth, it would +prove a great disgrace to so honourable and stately a history. +Great folly were it in me to commend unto your wisdoms either the +eloquence of the author that writ them or the worthiness of the +matter itself. I therefore leave unto your learned censures <a + href="#linknote-4" name="linknoteref-4" id="linknoteref-4">4</a> +both the one and the other, and myself the poor printer of them +unto your most courteous and favourable protection; which if you +vouchsafe to accept, you shall evermore bind me to employ what +travail and service I can to the advancing and pleasuring of your +excellent degree. + Yours, most humble at commandment, + R[ichard] J[ones], printer. +</pre> + <p> + THE FIRST PART OF TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT. + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +THE PROLOGUE. + + From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits, + And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, + We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, + Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine + Threatening the world with high astounding terms, + And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword. + View but his picture in this tragic glass, + And then applaud his fortunes as you please. +</pre> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +DRAMATIS PERSONAE. + + MYCETES, king of Persia. + COSROE, his brother. + MEANDER, ] + THERIDAMAS, ] + ORTYGIUS, ] Persian lords. + CENEUS, ] + MENAPHON, ] + TAMBURLAINE, a Scythian shepherd. + TECHELLES, ] + USUMCASANE, ] his followers. + BAJAZETH, emperor of the Turks. + KING OF FEZ. + KING OF MOROCCO. + KING OF ARGIER. + KING OF ARABIA. + SOLDAN OF EGYPT. + GOVERNOR OF DAMASCUS. + AGYDAS, ] + MAGNETES, ] Median lords. + CAPOLIN, an Egyptian. + PHILEMUS, Bassoes, Lords, Citizens, Moors, Soldiers, and + Attendants. + + ZENOCRATE, daughter to the Soldan of Egypt. + ANIPPE, her maid. + ZABINA, wife to BAJAZETH. + EBEA, her maid. + Virgins of Damascus. +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0003" id="link2H_4_0003"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + THE FIRST PART OF TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT. + </h2> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0004" id="link2H_4_0004"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + ACT I. + </h2> + <p> + <a name="linkscene11" id="linkscene11"></a> + </p> + <h2> + SCENE I. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter MYCETES, COSROE, MEANDER, THERIDAMAS, ORTYGIUS, + CENEUS, MENAPHON, with others. + + MYCETES. Brother Cosroe, I find myself agriev'd; + Yet insufficient to express the same, + For it requires a great and thundering speech: + Good brother, tell the cause unto my lords; + I know you have a better wit than I. + + COSROE. Unhappy Persia,—that in former age + Hast been the seat of mighty conquerors, + That, in their prowess and their policies, + Have triumph'd over Afric, <a href="#linknote-5" name="linknoteref-5" + id="linknoteref-5">5</a> and the bounds + Of Europe where the sun dares scarce appear + For freezing meteors and congealed cold,— + Now to be rul'd and govern'd by a man + At whose birth-day Cynthia with Saturn join'd, + And Jove, the Sun, and Mercury denied + To shed their <a href="#linknote-6" name="linknoteref-6" id="linknoteref-6">6</a> influence in his fickle brain! + Now Turks and Tartars shake their swords at thee, + Meaning to mangle all thy provinces. + + MYCETES. Brother, I see your meaning well enough, + And through <a href="#linknote-7" name="linknoteref-7" id="linknoteref-7">7</a> your planets I perceive you think + I am not wise enough to be a king: + But I refer me to my noblemen, + That know my wit, and can be witnesses. + I might command you to be slain for this,— + Meander, might I not? + + MEANDER. Not for so small a fault, my sovereign lord. + + MYCETES. I mean it not, but yet I know I might.— + Yet live; yea, live; Mycetes wills it so.— + Meander, thou, my faithful counsellor, + Declare the cause of my conceived grief, + Which is, God knows, about that Tamburlaine, + That, like a fox in midst of harvest-time, + Doth prey upon my flocks of passengers; + And, as I hear, doth mean to pull my plumes: + Therefore 'tis good and meet for to be wise. + + MEANDER. Oft have I heard your majesty complain + Of Tamburlaine, that sturdy Scythian thief, + That robs your merchants of Persepolis + Trading by land unto the Western Isles, + And in your confines with his lawless train + Daily commits incivil <a href="#linknote-8" name="linknoteref-8" + id="linknoteref-8">8</a> outrages, + Hoping (misled by dreaming prophecies) + To reign in Asia, and with barbarous arms + To make himself the monarch of the East: + But, ere he march in Asia, or display + His vagrant ensign in the Persian fields, + Your grace hath taken order by Theridamas, + Charg'd with a thousand horse, to apprehend + And bring him captive to your highness' throne. + + MYCETES. Full true thou speak'st, and like thyself, my lord, + Whom I may term a Damon for thy love: + Therefore 'tis best, if so it like you all, + To send my thousand horse incontinent <a href="#linknote-9" + name="linknoteref-9" id="linknoteref-9">9</a> + To apprehend that paltry Scythian. + How like you this, my honourable lords? + Is it not a kingly resolution? + + COSROE. It cannot choose, because it comes from you. + + MYCETES. Then hear thy charge, valiant Theridamas, + The chiefest <a href="#linknote-10" name="linknoteref-10" + id="linknoteref-10">10</a> captain of Mycetes' host, + The hope of Persia, and the very legs + Whereon our state doth lean as on a staff, + That holds us up and foils our neighbour foes: + Thou shalt be leader of this thousand horse, + Whose foaming gall with rage and high disdain + Have sworn the death of wicked Tamburlaine. + Go frowning forth; but come thou smiling home, + As did Sir Paris with the Grecian dame: + Return with speed; time passeth swift away; + Our life is frail, and we may die to-day. + + THERIDAMAS. Before the moon renew her borrow'd light, + Doubt not, my lord and gracious sovereign, + But Tamburlaine and that Tartarian rout <a href="#linknote-11" + name="linknoteref-11" id="linknoteref-11">11</a> + Shall either perish by our warlike hands, + Or plead for mercy at your highness' feet. + + MYCETES. Go, stout Theridamas; thy words are swords, + And with thy looks thou conquerest all thy foes. + I long to see thee back return from thence, + That I may view these milk-white steeds of mine + All loaden with the heads of killed men, + And, from their knees even to their hoofs below, + Besmear'd with blood that makes a dainty show. + + THERIDAMAS. Then now, my lord, I humbly take my leave. + + MYCETES. Theridamas, farewell ten thousand times. + + [Exit THERIDAMAS.] + + Ah, Menaphon, why stay'st thou thus behind, + When other men press <a href="#linknote-12" name="linknoteref-12" + id="linknoteref-12">12</a> forward for renown? + Go, Menaphon, go into Scythia, + And foot by foot follow Theridamas. + + COSROE. Nay, pray you, <a href="#linknote-13" name="linknoteref-13" + id="linknoteref-13">13</a> let him stay; a greater [task] + Fits Menaphon than warring with a thief: + Create him pro-rex of all <a href="#linknote-14" name="linknoteref-14" + id="linknoteref-14">14</a> Africa, + That he may win the Babylonians' hearts, + Which will revolt from Persian government, + Unless they have a wiser king than you. + + MYCETES. Unless they have a wiser king than you! + These are his words; Meander, set them down. + + COSROE. And add this to them,—that all Asia + Lament to see the folly of their king. + + MYCETES. Well, here I swear by this my royal seat— + + COSROE. You may do well to kiss it, then. + + MYCETES. Emboss'd with silk as best beseems my state, + To be reveng'd for these contemptuous words! + O, where is duty and allegiance now? + Fled to the Caspian or the Ocean main? + What shall I call thee? brother? no, a foe; + Monster of nature, shame unto thy stock, + That dar'st presume thy sovereign for to mock!— + Meander, come: I am abus'd, Meander. + + [Exeunt all except COSROE and MENAPHON.] + + MENAPHON. How now, my lord! what, mated <a href="#linknote-15" + name="linknoteref-15" id="linknoteref-15">15</a> and amaz'd + To hear the king thus threaten like himself! + + COSROE. Ah, Menaphon, I pass not <a href="#linknote-16" + name="linknoteref-16" id="linknoteref-16">16</a> for his threats! + The plot is laid by Persian noblemen + And captains of the Median garrisons + To crown me emperor of Asia: + But this it is that doth excruciate + The very substance of my vexed soul, + To see our neighbours, that were wont to quake + And tremble at the Persian monarch's name, + Now sit and laugh our regiment <a href="#linknote-17" name="linknoteref-17" + id="linknoteref-17">17</a> to scorn; + And that which might resolve <a href="#linknote-18" name="linknoteref-18" + id="linknoteref-18">18</a> me into tears, + Men from the farthest equinoctial line + Have swarm'd in troops into the Eastern India, + Lading their ships <a href="#linknote-19" name="linknoteref-19" + id="linknoteref-19">19</a> with gold and precious stones, + And made their spoils from all our provinces. + + MENAPHON. This should entreat your highness to rejoice, + Since Fortune gives you opportunity + To gain the title of a conqueror + By curing of this maimed empery. + Afric and Europe bordering on your land, + And continent to your dominions, + How easily may you, with a mighty host, + Pass <a href="#linknote-20" name="linknoteref-20" id="linknoteref-20">20</a> into Graecia, as did Cyrus once, + And cause them to withdraw their forces home, + Lest you <a href="#linknote-21" name="linknoteref-21" id="linknoteref-21">21</a> subdue the pride of Christendom! + + [Trumpet within.] + + COSROE. But, Menaphon, what means this trumpet's sound? + + MENAPHON. Behold, my lord, Ortygius and the rest + Bringing the crown to make you emperor! + + Re-enter ORTYGIUS and CENEUS, <a href="#linknote-22" + name="linknoteref-22" id="linknoteref-22">22</a> with others, bearing a + crown. + + ORTYGIUS. Magnificent and mighty prince Cosroe, + We, in the name of other Persian states <a href="#linknote-23" + name="linknoteref-23" id="linknoteref-23">23</a> + And commons of this mighty monarchy, + Present thee with th' imperial diadem. + + CENEUS. The warlike soldiers and the gentlemen, + That heretofore have fill'd Persepolis + With Afric captains taken in the field, + Whose ransom made them march in coats of gold, + With costly jewels hanging at their ears, + And shining stones upon their lofty crests, + Now living idle in the walled towns, + Wanting both pay and martial discipline, + Begin in troops to threaten civil war, + And openly exclaim against their <a href="#linknote-24" + name="linknoteref-24" id="linknoteref-24">24</a> king: + Therefore, to stay all sudden mutinies, + We will invest your highness emperor; + Whereat the soldiers will conceive more joy + Than did the Macedonians at the spoil + Of great Darius and his wealthy host. + + COSROE. Well, since I see the state of Persia droop + And languish in my brother's government, + I willingly receive th' imperial crown, + And vow to wear it for my country's good, + In spite of them shall malice my estate. + + ORTYGIUS. And, in assurance of desir'd success, + We here do crown thee monarch of the East [;] + Emperor of Asia and Persia; <a href="#linknote-25" name="linknoteref-25" + id="linknoteref-25">25</a> + Great lord of Media and Armenia; + Duke of Africa and Albania, + Mesopotamia and of Parthia, + East India and the late-discover'd isles; + Chief lord of all the wide vast Euxine Sea, + And of the ever-raging <a href="#linknote-26" name="linknoteref-26" + id="linknoteref-26">26</a> Caspian Lake. + + ALL. <a href="#linknote-27" name="linknoteref-27" id="linknoteref-27">27</a> Long live Cosroe, mighty emperor! + + COSROE. And Jove may <a href="#linknote-28" name="linknoteref-28" + id="linknoteref-28">28</a> never let me longer live + Than I may seek to gratify your love, + And cause the soldiers that thus honour me + To triumph over many provinces! + By whose desires of discipline in arms + I doubt not shortly but to reign sole king, + And with the army of Theridamas + (Whither we presently will fly, my lords,) + To rest secure against my brother's force. + + ORTYGIUS. We knew, <a href="#linknote-29" name="linknoteref-29" + id="linknoteref-29">29</a> my lord, before we brought the crown, + Intending your investion so near + The residence of your despised brother, + The lords <a href="#linknote-30" name="linknoteref-30" id="linknoteref-30">30</a> would not be too exasperate + To injury <a href="#linknote-31" name="linknoteref-31" id="linknoteref-31">31</a> or suppress your worthy title; + Or, if they would, there are in readiness + Ten thousand horse to carry you from hence, + In spite of all suspected enemies. + + COSROE. I know it well, my lord, and thank you all. + + ORTYGIUS. Sound up the trumpets, then. + + [Trumpets sounded.] + + ALL. <a href="#linknote-32" name="linknoteref-32" id="linknoteref-32">32</a> God save the king! + + [Exeunt.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0005" id="link2H_4_0005"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE II. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter TAMBURLAINE leading ZENOCRATE, TECHELLES, USUMCASANE, + AGYDAS, MAGNETES, LORDS, and SOLDIERS loaden with treasure. + + TAMBURLAINE. Come, lady, let not this appal your thoughts; + The jewels and the treasure we have ta'en + Shall be reserv'd, and you in better state + Than if you were arriv'd in Syria, + Even in the circle of your father's arms, + The mighty Soldan of Aegyptia. + + ZENOCRATE. Ah, shepherd, pity my distressed plight! + (If, as thou seem'st, thou art so mean a man,) + And seek not to enrich thy followers + By lawless rapine from a silly maid, + Who, travelling <a href="#linknote-33" name="linknoteref-33" + id="linknoteref-33">33</a> with these Median lords + To Memphis, from my uncle's country of Media, + Where, all my youth, I have been governed, + Have pass'd the army of the mighty Turk, + Bearing his privy-signet and his hand + To safe-conduct us thorough <a href="#linknote-34" name="linknoteref-34" + id="linknoteref-34">34</a> Africa. + + MAGNETES. And, since we have arriv'd in Scythia, + Besides rich presents from the puissant Cham, + We have his highness' letters to command + Aid and assistance, if we stand in need. + + TAMBURLAINE. But now you see these letters and commands + Are countermanded by a greater man; + And through my provinces you must expect + Letters of conduct from my mightiness, + If you intend to keep your treasure safe. + But, since I love to live at liberty, + As easily may you get the Soldan's crown + As any prizes out of my precinct; + For they are friends that help to wean my state + Till men and kingdoms help to strengthen it, + And must maintain my life exempt from servitude.— + But, tell me, madam, is your grace betroth'd? + + ZENOCRATE. I am, my lord,—for so you do import. + + TAMBURLAINE. I am a lord, for so my deeds shall prove; + And yet a shepherd by my parentage. + But, lady, this fair face and heavenly hue + Must grace his bed that conquers Asia, + And means to be a terror to the world, + Measuring the limits of his empery + By east and west, as Phoebus doth his course.— + Lie here, ye weeds, that I disdain to wear! + This complete armour and this curtle-axe + Are adjuncts more beseeming Tamburlaine.— + And, madam, whatsoever you esteem + Of this success, and loss unvalued, <a href="#linknote-35" + name="linknoteref-35" id="linknoteref-35">35</a> + Both may invest you empress of the East; + And these that seem but silly country swains + May have the leading of so great an host + As with their weight shall make the mountains quake, + Even as when windy exhalations, + Fighting for passage, tilt within the earth. + + TECHELLES. As princely lions, when they rouse themselves, + Stretching their paws, and threatening herds of beasts, + So in his armour looketh Tamburlaine. + Methinks I see kings kneeling at his feet, + And he with frowning brows and fiery looks + Spurning their crowns from off their captive heads. + + USUMCASANE. And making thee and me, Techelles, kings, + That even to death will follow Tamburlaine. + + TAMBURLAINE. Nobly resolv'd, sweet friends and followers! + These lords perhaps do scorn our estimates, + And think we prattle with distemper'd spirits: + But, since they measure our deserts so mean, + That in conceit <a href="#linknote-36" name="linknoteref-36" + id="linknoteref-36">36</a> bear empires on our spears, + Affecting thoughts coequal with the clouds, + They shall be kept our forced followers + Till with their eyes they view us emperors. + + ZENOCRATE. The gods, defenders of the innocent. + Will never prosper your intended drifts, + That thus oppress poor friendless passengers. + Therefore at least admit us liberty, + Even as thou hop'st to be eternized + By living Asia's mighty emperor. + + AGYDAS. I hope our lady's treasure and our own + May serve for ransom to our liberties: + Return our mules and empty camels back, + That we may travel into Syria, + Where her betrothed lord, Alcidamus, + Expects the arrival of her highness' person. + + MAGNETES. And wheresoever we repose ourselves, + We will report but well of Tamburlaine. + + TAMBURLAINE. Disdains Zenocrate to live with me? + Or you, my lords, to be my followers? + Think you I weigh this treasure more than you? + Not all the gold in India's wealthy arms + Shall buy the meanest soldier in my train. + Zenocrate, lovelier than the love of Jove, + Brighter than is the silver Rhodope, <a href="#linknote-37" + name="linknoteref-37" id="linknoteref-37">37</a> + Fairer than whitest snow on Scythian hills, + Thy person is more worth to Tamburlaine + Than the possession of the Persian crown, + Which gracious stars have promis'd at my birth. + A hundred Tartars shall attend on thee, + Mounted on steeds swifter than Pegasus; + Thy garments shall be made of Median silk, + Enchas'd with precious jewels of mine own, + More rich and valurous <a href="#linknote-38" name="linknoteref-38" + id="linknoteref-38">38</a> than Zenocrate's; + With milk-white harts upon an ivory sled + Thou shalt be drawn amidst the frozen pools, <a href="#linknote-39" + name="linknoteref-39" id="linknoteref-39">39</a> + And scale the icy mountains' lofty tops, + Which with thy beauty will be soon resolv'd: <a href="#linknote-40" + name="linknoteref-40" id="linknoteref-40">40</a> + My martial prizes, with five hundred men, + Won on the fifty-headed Volga's waves, + Shall we all offer <a href="#linknote-41" name="linknoteref-41" + id="linknoteref-41">41</a> to Zenocrate, + And then myself to fair Zenocrate. + + TECHELLES. What now! in love? + + TAMBURLAINE. Techelles, women must be flattered: + But this is she with whom I am in <a href="#linknote-42" + name="linknoteref-42" id="linknoteref-42">42</a> love. + + Enter a SOLDIER. + + SOLDIER. News, news! + + TAMBURLAINE. How now! what's the matter? + + SOLDIER. A thousand Persian horsemen are at hand, + Sent from the king to overcome us all. + + TAMBURLAINE. How now, my lords of Egypt, and Zenocrate! + Now must your jewels be restor'd again, + And I, that triumph'd <a href="#linknote-43" name="linknoteref-43" + id="linknoteref-43">43</a> so, be overcome? + How say you, lordings? is not this your hope? + + AGYDAS. We hope yourself will willingly restore them. + + TAMBURLAINE. Such hope, such fortune, have the thousand horse. + Soft ye, my lords, and sweet Zenocrate! + You must be forced from me ere you go.— + A thousand horsemen! we five hundred foot! + An odds too great for us to stand against. + But are they rich? and is their armour good! + + SOLDIER. Their plumed helms are wrought with beaten gold, + Their swords enamell'd, and about their necks + Hang massy chains of gold down to the waist; + In every part exceeding brave <a href="#linknote-44" name="linknoteref-44" + id="linknoteref-44">44</a> and rich. + + TAMBURLAINE. Then shall we fight courageously with them? + Or look you I should play the orator? + + TECHELLES. No; cowards and faint-hearted runaways + Look for orations when the foe is near: + Our swords shall play the orators for us. + + USUMCASANE. Come, let us meet them at the mountain-top, <a + href="#linknote-45" name="linknoteref-45" id="linknoteref-45">45</a> + And with a sudden and an hot alarum + Drive all their horses headlong down the hill. + + TECHELLES. Come, let us march. + + TAMBURLAINE. Stay, Techelles; ask a parle first. + + The SOLDIERS enter. + + Open the mails, <a href="#linknote-46" name="linknoteref-46" + id="linknoteref-46">46</a> yet guard the treasure sure: + Lay out our golden wedges to the view, + That their reflections may amaze the Persians; + And look we friendly on them when they come: + But, if they offer word or violence, + We'll fight, five hundred men-at-arms to one, + Before we part with our possession; + And 'gainst the general we will lift our swords, + And either lance <a href="#linknote-47" name="linknoteref-47" + id="linknoteref-47">47</a> his greedy thirsting throat, + Or take him prisoner, and his chain shall serve + For manacles till he be ransom'd home. + + TECHELLES. I hear them come: shall we encounter them? + + TAMBURLAINE. Keep all your standings, and not stir a foot: + Myself will bide the danger of the brunt. + + Enter THERIDAMAS with others. + + THERIDAMAS. Where is this <a href="#linknote-48" name="linknoteref-48" + id="linknoteref-48">48</a> Scythian Tamburlaine? + + TAMBURLAINE. Whom seek'st thou, Persian? I am Tamburlaine. + + THERIDAMAS. Tamburlaine! + A Scythian shepherd so embellished + With nature's pride and richest furniture! + His looks do menace heaven and dare the gods; + His fiery eyes are fix'd upon the earth, + As if he now devis'd some stratagem, + Or meant to pierce Avernus' darksome vaults <a href="#linknote-49" + name="linknoteref-49" id="linknoteref-49">49</a> + To pull the triple-headed dog from hell. + + TAMBURLAINE. Noble and mild this Persian seems to be, + If outward habit judge the inward man. + + TECHELLES. His deep affections make him passionate. + + TAMBURLAINE. With what a majesty he rears his looks!— + In thee, thou valiant man of Persia, + I see the folly of thy <a href="#linknote-50" name="linknoteref-50" + id="linknoteref-50">50</a> emperor. + Art thou but captain of a thousand horse, + That by characters graven in thy brows, + And by thy martial face and stout aspect, + Deserv'st to have the leading of an host? + Forsake thy king, and do but join with me, + And we will triumph over all the world: + I hold the Fates bound fast in iron chains, + And with my hand turn Fortune's wheel about; + And sooner shall the sun fall from his sphere + Than Tamburlaine be slain or overcome. + Draw forth thy sword, thou mighty man-at-arms, + Intending but to raze my charmed skin, + And Jove himself will stretch his hand from heaven + To ward the blow, and shield me safe from harm. + See, how he rains down heaps of gold in showers, + As if he meant to give my soldiers pay! + And, as a sure and grounded argument + That I shall be the monarch of the East, + He sends this Soldan's daughter rich and brave, <a href="#linknote-51" + name="linknoteref-51" id="linknoteref-51">51</a> + To be my queen and portly emperess. + If thou wilt stay with me, renowmed <a href="#linknote-52" + name="linknoteref-52" id="linknoteref-52">52</a> man, + And lead thy thousand horse with my conduct, + Besides thy share of this Egyptian prize, + Those thousand horse shall sweat with martial spoil + Of conquer'd kingdoms and of cities sack'd: + Both we will walk upon the lofty cliffs; <a href="#linknote-53" + name="linknoteref-53" id="linknoteref-53">53</a> + And Christian merchants, <a href="#linknote-54" name="linknoteref-54" + id="linknoteref-54">54</a> that with Russian stems <a href="#linknote-55" + name="linknoteref-55" id="linknoteref-55">55</a> + Plough up huge furrows in the Caspian Sea, + Shall vail <a href="#linknote-56" name="linknoteref-56" id="linknoteref-56">56</a> to us as lords of all the lake; + Both we will reign as consuls of the earth, + And mighty kings shall be our senators. + Jove sometime masked in a shepherd's weed; + And by those steps that he hath scal'd the heavens + May we become immortal like the gods. + Join with me now in this my mean estate, + (I call it mean, because, being yet obscure, + The nations far-remov'd admire me not,) + And when my name and honour shall be spread + As far as Boreas claps his brazen wings, + Or fair Bootes <a href="#linknote-57" name="linknoteref-57" + id="linknoteref-57">57</a> sends his cheerful light, + Then shalt thou be competitor <a href="#linknote-58" name="linknoteref-58" + id="linknoteref-58">58</a> with me, + And sit with Tamburlaine in all his majesty. + + THERIDAMAS. Not Hermes, prolocutor to the gods, + Could use persuasions more pathetical. + + TAMBURLAINE. Nor are Apollo's oracles more true + Than thou shalt find my vaunts substantial. + + TECHELLES. We are his friends; and, if the Persian king + Should offer present dukedoms to our state, + We think it loss to make exchange for that + We are assur'd of by our friend's success. + + USUMCASANE. And kingdoms at the least we all expect, + Besides the honour in assured conquests, + Where kings shall crouch unto our conquering swords, + And hosts of soldiers stand amaz'd at us, + When with their fearful tongues they shall confess, + These are the men that all the world admires. + + THERIDAMAS. What strong enchantments tice my yielding soul + To these <a href="#linknote-59" name="linknoteref-59" id="linknoteref-59">59</a> resolved, noble Scythians! + But shall I prove a traitor to my king? + + TAMBURLAINE. No; but the trusty friend of Tamburlaine. + + THERIDAMAS. Won with thy words, and conquer'd with thy looks, + I yield myself, my men, and horse to thee, + To be partaker of thy good or ill, + As long as life maintains Theridamas. + + TAMBURLAINE. Theridamas, my friend, take here my hand, + Which is as much as if I swore by heaven, + And call'd the gods to witness of my vow. + Thus shall my heart be still combin'd with thine + Until our bodies turn to elements, + And both our souls aspire celestial thrones.— + Techelles and Casane, welcome him. + + TECHELLES. Welcome, renowmed <a href="#linknote-60" name="linknoteref-60" + id="linknoteref-60">60</a> Persian, to us all! + + USUMCASANE. Long may Theridamas remain with us! + + TAMBURLAINE. These are my friends, in whom I more rejoice + Than doth the king of Persia in his crown; + And, by the love of Pylades and Orestes, + Whose statues <a href="#linknote-61" name="linknoteref-61" + id="linknoteref-61">61</a> we adore in Scythia, + Thyself and them shall never part from me + Before I crown you kings <a href="#linknote-62" name="linknoteref-62" + id="linknoteref-62">62</a> in Asia. + Make much of them, gentle Theridamas, + And they will never leave thee till the death. + + THERIDAMAS. Nor thee nor them, <a href="#linknote-63" name="linknoteref-63" + id="linknoteref-63">63</a> thrice-noble Tamburlaine, + Shall want my heart to be with gladness pierc'd, + To do you honour and security. + + TAMBURLAINE. A thousand thanks, worthy Theridamas.— + And now, fair madam, and my noble lords, + If you will <a href="#linknote-64" name="linknoteref-64" id="linknoteref-64">64</a> willingly remain with me, + You shall have honours as your merits be; + Or else you shall be forc'd with slavery. + + AGYDAS. We yield unto thee, happy Tamburlaine. + + TAMBURLAINE. For you, then, madam, I am out of doubt. + + ZENOCRATE. I must be pleas'd perforce,—wretched Zenocrate! + + [Exeunt.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0006" id="link2H_4_0006"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + ACT II. + </h2> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0007" id="link2H_4_0007"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE I. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter COSROE, MENAPHON, ORTYGIUS, and CENEUS, with SOLDIERS. + + COSROE. Thus far are we towards Theridamas, + And valiant Tamburlaine, the man of fame, + The man that in the forehead of his fortune + Bears figures of renown and miracle. + But tell me, that hast seen him, Menaphon, + What stature wields he, and what personage? + + MENAPHON. Of stature tall, and straightly fashioned, + Like his desire, lift upwards and divine; + So large of limbs, his joints so strongly knit, + Such breadth of shoulders as might mainly bear + Old Atlas' burden; 'twixt his manly pitch, <a href="#linknote-65" + name="linknoteref-65" id="linknoteref-65">65</a> + A pearl more worth than all the world is plac'd, + Wherein by curious sovereignty of art + Are fix'd his piercing instruments of sight, + Whose fiery circles bear encompassed + A heaven of heavenly bodies in their spheres, + That guides his steps and actions to the throne + Where honour sits invested royally; + Pale of complexion, wrought in him with passion, + Thirsting with sovereignty and <a href="#linknote-66" name="linknoteref-66" + id="linknoteref-66">66</a> love of arms; + His lofty brows in folds do figure death, + And in their smoothness amity and life; + About them hangs a knot of amber hair, + Wrapped in curls, as fierce Achilles' was, + On which the breath of heaven delights to play, + Making it dance with wanton majesty; + His arms and fingers long and sinewy, <a href="#linknote-67" + name="linknoteref-67" id="linknoteref-67">67</a> + Betokening valour and excess of strength;— + In every part proportion'd like the man + Should make the world subdu'd <a href="#linknote-68" name="linknoteref-68" + id="linknoteref-68">68</a> to Tamburlaine. + + COSROE. Well hast thou pourtray'd in thy terms of life + The face and personage of a wondrous man: + Nature doth strive with Fortune <a href="#linknote-69" name="linknoteref-69" + id="linknoteref-69">69</a> and his stars + To make him famous in accomplish'd worth; + And well his merits shew him to be made + His fortune's master and the king of men, + That could persuade, at such a sudden pinch, + With reasons of his valour and his life, + A thousand sworn and overmatching foes. + Then, when our powers in points of swords are join'd, + And clos'd in compass of the killing bullet, + Though strait the passage and the port <a href="#linknote-70" + name="linknoteref-70" id="linknoteref-70">70</a> be made + That leads to palace of my brother's life, + Proud is <a href="#linknote-71" name="linknoteref-71" id="linknoteref-71">71</a> his fortune if we pierce it not; + And, when the princely Persian diadem + Shall overweigh his weary witless head, + And fall, like mellow'd fruit, with shakes of death, + In fair <a href="#linknote-72" name="linknoteref-72" id="linknoteref-72">72</a> Persia noble Tamburlaine + Shall be my regent, and remain as king. + + ORTYGIUS. In happy hour we have set the crown + Upon your kingly head, that seeks our honour + In joining with the man ordain'd by heaven + To further every action to the best. + + CENEUS. He that with shepherds and a little spoil + Durst, in disdain of wrong and tyranny, + Defend his freedom 'gainst a monarchy, + What will he do supported by a king, + Leading a troop of gentlemen and lords, + And stuff'd with treasure for his highest thoughts! + + COSROE. And such shall wait on worthy Tamburlaine. + Our army will be forty thousand strong, + When Tamburlaine and brave Theridamas + Have met us by the river Araris; + And all conjoin'd to meet the witless king, + That now is marching near to Parthia, + And, with unwilling soldiers faintly arm'd, + To seek revenge on me and Tamburlaine; + To whom, sweet Menaphon, direct me straight. + + MENAPHON. I will, my lord. + + [Exeunt.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0008" id="link2H_4_0008"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE II. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter MYCETES, MEANDER, with other LORDS; and SOLDIERS. + + MYCETES. Come, my Meander, let us to this gear. + I tell you true, my heart is swoln with wrath + On this same thievish villain Tamburlaine, + And of <a href="#linknote-73" name="linknoteref-73" id="linknoteref-73">73</a> that false Cosroe, my traitorous brother. + Would it not grieve a king to be so abus'd, + And have a thousand horsemen ta'en away? + And, which is worse, <a href="#linknote-74" name="linknoteref-74" + id="linknoteref-74">74</a> to have his diadem + Sought for by such scald knaves as love him not? + I think it would: well, then, by heavens I swear, + Aurora shall not peep out of her doors, + But I will have Cosroe by the head, + And kill proud Tamburlaine with point of sword. + Tell you the rest, Meander: I have said. + + MEANDER. Then, having pass'd Armenian deserts now, + And pitch'd our tents under the Georgian hills, + Whose tops are cover'd with Tartarian thieves, + That lie in ambush, waiting for a prey, + What should we do but bid them battle straight, + And rid the world of those detested troops? + Lest, if we let them linger here a while, + They gather strength by power of fresh supplies. + This country swarms with vile outragious men + That live by rapine and by lawless spoil, + Fit soldiers for the <a href="#linknote-75" name="linknoteref-75" + id="linknoteref-75">75</a> wicked Tamburlaine; + And he that could with gifts and promises + Inveigle him that led a thousand horse, + And make him false his faith unto his <a href="#linknote-76" + name="linknoteref-76" id="linknoteref-76">76</a> king, + Will quickly win such as be <a href="#linknote-77" name="linknoteref-77" + id="linknoteref-77">77</a> like himself. + Therefore cheer up your minds; prepare to fight: + He that can take or slaughter Tamburlaine, + Shall rule the province of Albania; + Who brings that traitor's head, Theridamas, + Shall have a government in Media, + Beside <a href="#linknote-78" name="linknoteref-78" id="linknoteref-78">78</a> the spoil of him and all his train: + But, if Cosroe (as our spials say, + And as we know) remains with Tamburlaine, + His highness' pleasure is that he should live, + And be reclaim'd with princely lenity. + + Enter a SPY. + + SPY. An hundred horsemen of my company, + Scouting abroad upon these champion <a href="#linknote-79" + name="linknoteref-79" id="linknoteref-79">79</a> plains, + Have view'd the army of the Scythians; + Which make report it far exceeds the king's. + + MEANDER. Suppose they be in number infinite, + Yet being void of martial discipline, + All running headlong, greedy after <a href="#linknote-80" + name="linknoteref-80" id="linknoteref-80">80</a> spoils, + And more regarding gain than victory, + Like to the cruel brothers of the earth, + Sprung <a href="#linknote-81" name="linknoteref-81" id="linknoteref-81">81</a> of the teeth of <a + href="#linknote-82" name="linknoteref-82" id="linknoteref-82">82</a> dragons venomous, + Their careless swords shall lance <a href="#linknote-83" + name="linknoteref-83" id="linknoteref-83">83</a> their fellows' throats, + And make us triumph in their overthrow. + + MYCETES. Was there such brethren, sweet Meander, say, + That sprung of teeth of dragons venomous? + + MEANDER. So poets say, my lord. + + MYCETES. And 'tis a pretty toy to be a poet. + Well, well, Meander, thou art deeply read; + And having thee, I have a jewel sure. + Go on, my lord, and give your charge, I say; + Thy wit will make us conquerors to-day. + + MEANDER. Then, noble soldiers, to entrap these thieves + That live confounded in disorder'd troops, + If wealth or riches may prevail with them, + We have our camels laden all with gold, + Which you that be but common soldiers + Shall fling in every corner of the field; + And, while the base-born Tartars take it up, + You, fighting more for honour than for gold, + Shall massacre those greedy-minded slaves; + And, when their scatter'd army is subdu'd, + And you march on their slaughter'd carcasses, + Share equally the gold that bought their lives, + And live like gentlemen in Persia. + Strike up the <a href="#linknote-84" name="linknoteref-84" + id="linknoteref-84">84</a> drum, and march courageously: + Fortune herself doth sit upon our crests. + + MYCETES. He tells you true, my masters; so he does.— + Drums, why sound ye not when Meander speaks? + + [Exeunt, drums sounding.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0009" id="link2H_4_0009"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE III. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter COSROE, TAMBURLAINE, THERIDAMAS, TECHELLES, + USUMCASANE, + and ORTYGIUS, with others. + + COSROE. Now, worthy Tamburlaine, have I repos'd + In thy approved fortunes all my hope. + What think'st thou, man, shall come of our attempts? + For, even as from assured oracle, + I take thy doom for satisfaction. + + TAMBURLAINE. And so mistake you not a whit, my lord; + For fates and oracles [of] heaven have sworn + To royalize the deeds of Tamburlaine, + And make them blest that share in his attempts: + And doubt you not but, if you favour me, + And let my fortunes and my valour sway + To some <a href="#linknote-85" name="linknoteref-85" id="linknoteref-85">85</a> direction in your martial deeds, + The world will <a href="#linknote-86" name="linknoteref-86" + id="linknoteref-86">86</a> strive with hosts of men-at-arms + To swarm unto the ensign I support. + The host of Xerxes, which by fame is said + To drink the mighty Parthian Araris, + Was but a handful to that we will have: + Our quivering lances, shaking in the air, + And bullets, like Jove's dreadful thunderbolts, + Enroll'd in flames and fiery smouldering mists, + Shall threat the gods more than Cyclopian wars; + And with our sun-bright armour, as we march, + We'll chase the stars from heaven, and dim their eyes + That stand and muse at our admired arms. + + THERIDAMAS. You see, my lord, what working words he hath; + But, when you see his actions top <a href="#linknote-87" + name="linknoteref-87" id="linknoteref-87">87</a> his speech, + Your speech will stay, or so extol his worth + As I shall be commended and excus'd + For turning my poor charge to his direction: + And these his two renowmed <a href="#linknote-88" name="linknoteref-88" + id="linknoteref-88">88</a> friends, my lord, + Would make one thirst <a href="#linknote-89" name="linknoteref-89" + id="linknoteref-89">89</a> and strive to be retain'd + In such a great degree of amity. + + TECHELLES. With duty and <a href="#linknote-90" name="linknoteref-90" + id="linknoteref-90">90</a> with amity we yield + Our utmost service to the fair <a href="#linknote-91" name="linknoteref-91" + id="linknoteref-91">91</a> Cosroe. + + COSROE. Which I esteem as portion of my crown. + Usumcasane and Techelles both, + When she <a href="#linknote-92" name="linknoteref-92" id="linknoteref-92">92</a> that rules in Rhamnus' <a + href="#linknote-93" name="linknoteref-93" id="linknoteref-93">93</a> golden gates, + And makes a passage for all prosperous arms, + Shall make me solely emperor of Asia, + Then shall your meeds <a href="#linknote-94" name="linknoteref-94" + id="linknoteref-94">94</a> and valours be advanc'd + To rooms of honour and nobility. + + TAMBURLAINE. Then haste, Cosroe, to be king alone, + That I with these my friends and all my men + May triumph in our long-expected fate. + The king, your brother, is now hard at hand: + Meet with the fool, and rid your royal shoulders + Of such a burden as outweighs the sands + And all the craggy rocks of Caspia. + + Enter a MESSENGER. + + MESSENGER. My lord, + We have discovered the enemy + Ready to charge you with a mighty army. + + COSROE. Come, Tamburlaine; now whet thy winged sword, + And lift thy lofty arm into <a href="#linknote-95" name="linknoteref-95" + id="linknoteref-95">95</a> the clouds, + That it may reach the king of Persia's crown, + And set it safe on my victorious head. + + TAMBURLAINE. See where it is, the keenest curtle-axe + That e'er made passage thorough Persian arms! + These are the wings shall make it fly as swift + As doth the lightning or the breath of heaven, + And kill as sure <a href="#linknote-96" name="linknoteref-96" + id="linknoteref-96">96</a> as it swiftly flies. + + COSROE. Thy words assure me of kind success: + Go, valiant soldier, go before, and charge + The fainting army of that foolish king. + + TAMBURLAINE. Usumcasane and Techelles, come: + We are enow to scare the enemy, + And more than needs to make an emperor. + + [Exeunt to the battle.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0010" id="link2H_4_0010"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE IV. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter MYCETES with his crown in his hand. <a href="#linknote-97" + name="linknoteref-97" id="linknoteref-97">97</a> + + MYCETES. Accurs'd be he that first invented war! + They knew not, ah, they knew not, simple men, + How those were <a href="#linknote-98" name="linknoteref-98" + id="linknoteref-98">98</a> hit by pelting cannon-shot + Stand staggering <a href="#linknote-99" name="linknoteref-99" + id="linknoteref-99">99</a> like a quivering aspen-leaf + Fearing the force of Boreas' boisterous blasts! + In what a lamentable case were I, + If nature had not given me wisdom's lore! + For kings are clouts that every man shoots at, + Our crown the pin <a href="#linknote-100" name="linknoteref-100" + id="linknoteref-100">100</a> that thousands seek to cleave: + Therefore in policy I think it good + To hide it close; a goodly stratagem, + And far from any man that is a fool: + So shall not I be known; or if I be, + They cannot take away my crown from me. + Here will I hide it in this simple hole. + + Enter TAMBURLAINE. + + TAMBURLAINE. What, fearful coward, straggling from the camp, + When kings themselves are present in the field? + + MYCETES. Thou liest. + + TAMBURLAINE. Base villain, darest thou give me <a href="#linknote-101" + name="linknoteref-101" id="linknoteref-101">101</a> the lie? + + MYCETES. Away! I am the king; go; touch me not. + Thou break'st the law of arms, unless thou kneel, + And cry me "mercy, noble king!" + + TAMBURLAINE. Are you the witty king of Persia? + + MYCETES. Ay, marry, <a href="#linknote-102" name="linknoteref-102" + id="linknoteref-102">102</a> am I: have you any suit to me? + + TAMBURLAINE. I would entreat you to speak but three wise words. + + MYCETES. So I can when I see my time. + + TAMBURLAINE. Is this your crown? + + MYCETES. Ay: didst thou ever see a fairer? + + TAMBURLAINE. You will not sell it, will you? + + MYCETES. Such another word, and I will have thee executed. Come, + give it me. + + TAMBURLAINE. No; I took it prisoner. + + MYCETES. You lie; I gave it you. + + TAMBURLAINE. Then 'tis mine. + + MYCETES. No; I mean I let you keep it. + + TAMBURLAINE. Well, I mean you shall have it again. + Here, take it for a while: I lend it thee, + Till I may see thee hemm'd with armed men; + Then shalt thou see me pull it from thy head: + Thou art no match for mighty Tamburlaine. + + [Exit.] + + MYCETES. O gods, is this Tamburlaine the thief? + I marvel much he stole it not away. + + [Trumpets within sound to the battle: he runs out.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0011" id="link2H_4_0011"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE V. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter COSROE, TAMBURLAINE, MENAPHON, MEANDER, ORTYGIUS, + THERIDAMAS, TECHELLES, USUMCASANE, with others. + + TAMBURLAINE. Hold thee, Cosroe; wear two imperial crowns; + Think thee invested now as royally, + Even by the mighty hand of Tamburlaine, + As if as many kings as could encompass thee + With greatest pomp had crown'd thee emperor. + + COSROE. So do I, thrice-renowmed man-at-arms; <a href="#linknote-103" + name="linknoteref-103" id="linknoteref-103">103</a> + And none shall keep the crown but Tamburlaine: + Thee do I make my regent of Persia, + And general-lieutenant of my armies.— + Meander, you, that were our brother's guide, + And chiefest <a href="#linknote-104" name="linknoteref-104" + id="linknoteref-104">104</a> counsellor in all his acts, + Since he is yielded to the stroke of war, + On your submission we with thanks excuse, + And give you equal place in our affairs. + + MEANDER. Most happy <a href="#linknote-105" name="linknoteref-105" + id="linknoteref-105">105</a> emperor, in humblest terms + I vow my service to your majesty, + With utmost virtue of my faith and duty. + + COSROE. Thanks, good Meander.—Then, Cosroe, reign, + And govern Persia in her former pomp. + Now send embassage to thy neighbour kings, + And let them know the Persian king is chang'd, + From one that knew not what a king should do, + To one that can command what 'longs thereto. + And now we will to fair Persepolis + With twenty thousand expert soldiers. + The lords and captains of my brother's camp + With little slaughter take Meander's course, + And gladly yield them to my gracious rule.— + Ortygius and Menaphon, my trusty friends, + Now will I gratify your former good, + And grace your calling with a greater sway. + + ORTYGIUS. And as we ever aim'd <a href="#linknote-106" + name="linknoteref-106" id="linknoteref-106">106</a> at your behoof, + And sought your state all honour it <a href="#linknote-107" + name="linknoteref-107" id="linknoteref-107">107</a> deserv'd, + So will we with our powers and our <a href="#linknote-108" + name="linknoteref-108" id="linknoteref-108">108</a> lives + Endeavour to preserve and prosper it. + + COSROE. I will not thank thee, sweet Ortygius; + Better replies shall prove my purposes.— + And now, Lord Tamburlaine, my brother's camp + I leave to thee and to Theridamas, + To follow me to fair Persepolis; + Then will we <a href="#linknote-109" name="linknoteref-109" + id="linknoteref-109">109</a> march to all those Indian mines + My witless brother to the Christians lost, + And ransom them with fame and usury: + And, till thou overtake me, Tamburlaine, + (Staying to order all the scatter'd troops,) + Farewell, lord regent and his happy friends. + I long to sit upon my brother's throne. + + MEANDER. Your majesty shall shortly have your wish, + And ride in triumph through Persepolis. + + [Exeunt all except TAMBURLAINE, THERIDAMAS, TECHELLES, and + USUMCASANE.] + + TAMBURLAINE. And ride in triumph through Persepolis!— + Is it not brave to be a king, Techelles?— + Usumcasane and Theridamas, + Is it not passing brave to be a king, + And ride in triumph through Persepolis? + + TECHELLES. O, my lord, it is sweet and full of pomp! + + USUMCASANE. To be a king is half to be a god. + + THERIDAMAS. A god is not so glorious as a king: + I think the pleasure they enjoy in heaven, + Cannot compare with kingly joys in <a href="#linknote-110" + name="linknoteref-110" id="linknoteref-110">110</a> earth;— + To wear a crown enchas'd with pearl and gold, + Whose virtues carry with it life and death; + To ask and have, command and be obey'd; + When looks breed love, with looks to gain the prize,— + Such power attractive shines in princes' eyes. + + TAMBURLAINE. Why, say, Theridamas, wilt thou be a king? + + THERIDAMAS. Nay, though I praise it, I can live without it. + + TAMBURLAINE. What say my other friends? will you be kings? + + TECHELLES. I, if I could, with all my heart, my lord. + + TAMBURLAINE. Why, that's well said, Techelles: so would I;— + And so would you, my masters, would you not? + + USUMCASANE. What, then, my lord? + + TAMBURLAINE. Why, then, Casane, <a href="#linknote-111" + name="linknoteref-111" id="linknoteref-111">111</a> shall we wish for aught + The world affords in greatest novelty, + And rest attemptless, faint, and destitute? + Methinks we should not. I am strongly mov'd, + That if I should desire the Persian crown, + I could attain it with a wondrous ease: + And would not all our soldiers soon consent, + If we should aim at such a dignity? + + THERIDAMAS. I know they would with our persuasions. + + TAMBURLAINE. Why, then, Theridamas, I'll first assay + To get the Persian kingdom to myself; + Then thou for Parthia; they for Scythia and Media; + And, if I prosper, all shall be as sure + As if the Turk, the Pope, Afric, and Greece, + Came creeping to us with their crowns a-piece. <a href="#linknote-112" + name="linknoteref-112" id="linknoteref-112">112</a> + + TECHELLES. Then shall we send to this triumphing king, + And bid him battle for his novel crown? + + USUMCASANE. Nay, quickly, then, before his room be hot. + + TAMBURLAINE. 'Twill prove a pretty jest, in faith, my friends. + + THERIDAMAS. A jest to charge on twenty thousand men! + I judge the purchase <a href="#linknote-113" name="linknoteref-113" + id="linknoteref-113">113</a> more important far. + + TAMBURLAINE. Judge by thyself, Theridamas, not me; + For presently Techelles here shall haste + To bid him battle ere he pass too far, + And lose more labour than the gain will quite: <a href="#linknote-114" + name="linknoteref-114" id="linknoteref-114">114</a> + Then shalt thou see this <a href="#linknote-115" name="linknoteref-115" + id="linknoteref-115">115</a> Scythian Tamburlaine + Make but a jest to win the Persian crown.— + Techelles, take a thousand horse with thee, + And bid him turn him <a href="#linknote-116" name="linknoteref-116" + id="linknoteref-116">116</a> back to war with us, + That only made him king to make us sport: + We will not steal upon him cowardly, + But give him warning and <a href="#linknote-117" name="linknoteref-117" + id="linknoteref-117">117</a> more warriors: + Haste thee, Techelles; we will follow thee. + + [Exit TECHELLES.] + + What saith Theridamas? + + THERIDAMAS. Go on, for me. + + [Exeunt.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0012" id="link2H_4_0012"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE VI. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter COSROE, MEANDER, ORTYGIUS, and MENAPHON, with + SOLDIERS. + + COSROE. What means this devilish shepherd, to aspire + With such a giantly presumption, + To cast up hills against the face of heaven, + And dare the force of angry Jupiter? + But, as he thrust them underneath the hills, + And press'd out fire from their burning jaws, + So will I send this monstrous slave to hell, + Where flames shall ever feed upon his soul. + + MEANDER. Some powers divine, or else infernal, mix'd + Their angry seeds at his conception; + For he was never sprung <a href="#linknote-118" name="linknoteref-118" + id="linknoteref-118">118</a> of human race, + Since with the spirit of his fearful pride, + He dares <a href="#linknote-119" name="linknoteref-119" id="linknoteref-119">119</a> so doubtlessly resolve of rule, + And by profession be ambitious. + + ORTYGIUS. What god, or fiend, or spirit of the earth, + Or monster turned to a manly shape, + Or of what mould or mettle he be made, + What star or fate <a href="#linknote-120" name="linknoteref-120" + id="linknoteref-120">120</a> soever govern him, + Let us put on our meet encountering minds; + And, in detesting such a devilish thief, + In love of honour and defence of right, + Be arm'd against the hate of such a foe, + Whether from earth, or hell, or heaven he grow. + + COSROE. Nobly resolv'd, my good Ortygius; + And, since we all have suck'd one wholesome air, + And with the same proportion of elements + Resolve, <a href="#linknote-121" name="linknoteref-121" id="linknoteref-121">121</a> I hope we are resembled, + Vowing our loves to equal death and life. + Let's cheer our soldiers to encounter him, + That grievous image of ingratitude, + That fiery thirster after sovereignty, + And burn him in the fury of that flame + That none can quench but blood and empery. + Resolve, my lords and loving soldiers, now + To save your king and country from decay. + Then strike up, drum; and all the stars that make + The loathsome circle of my dated life, + Direct my weapon to his barbarous heart, + That thus opposeth him against the gods, + And scorns the powers that govern Persia! + + [Exeunt, drums sounding.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0013" id="link2H_4_0013"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE VII. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Alarms of battle within. Then enter COSROE wounded, + TAMBURLAINE, THERIDAMAS, TECHELLES, USUMCASANE, with others. + + COSROE. Barbarous <a href="#linknote-122" name="linknoteref-122" + id="linknoteref-122">122</a> and bloody Tamburlaine, + Thus to deprive me of my crown and life!— + Treacherous and false Theridamas, + Even at the morning of my happy state, + Scarce being seated in my royal throne, + To work my downfall and untimely end! + An uncouth pain torments my grieved soul; + And death arrests the organ of my voice, + Who, entering at the breach thy sword hath made, + Sacks every vein and artier <a href="#linknote-123" name="linknoteref-123" + id="linknoteref-123">123</a> of my heart.— + Bloody and insatiate Tamburlaine! + + TAMBURLAINE. The thirst of reign and sweetness of a crown, + That caus'd the eldest son of heavenly Ops + To thrust his doting father from his chair, + And place himself in the empyreal heaven, + Mov'd me to manage arms against thy state. + What better precedent than mighty Jove? + Nature, that fram'd us of four elements + Warring within our breasts for regiment, <a href="#linknote-124" + name="linknoteref-124" id="linknoteref-124">124</a> + Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: + Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend + The wondrous architecture of the world, + And measure every wandering planet's course, + Still climbing after knowledge infinite, + And always moving as the restless spheres, + Will us to wear ourselves, and never rest, + Until we reach the ripest fruit <a href="#linknote-125" + name="linknoteref-125" id="linknoteref-125">125</a> of all, + That perfect bliss and sole felicity, + The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. + + THERIDAMAS. And that made me to join with Tamburlaine; + For he is gross and like the massy earth + That moves not upwards, nor by princely deeds + Doth mean to soar above the highest sort. + + TECHELLES. And that made us, the friends of Tamburlaine, + To lift our swords against the Persian king. + + USUMCASANE. For as, when Jove did thrust old Saturn down, + Neptune and Dis gain'd each of them a crown, + So do we hope to reign in Asia, + If Tamburlaine be plac'd in Persia. + + COSROE. The strangest men that ever nature made! + I know not how to take their tyrannies. + My bloodless body waxeth chill and cold, + And with my blood my life slides through my wound; + My soul begins to take her flight to hell, + And summons all my senses to depart: + The heat and moisture, which did feed each other, + For want of nourishment to feed them both, + Are <a href="#linknote-126" name="linknoteref-126" id="linknoteref-126">126</a> dry and cold; and now doth ghastly Death + With greedy talents <a href="#linknote-127" name="linknoteref-127" + id="linknoteref-127">127</a> gripe my bleeding heart, + And like a harpy <a href="#linknote-128" name="linknoteref-128" + id="linknoteref-128">128</a> tires on my life.— + Theridamas and Tamburlaine, I die: + And fearful vengeance light upon you both! + + [Dies.—TAMBURLAINE takes COSROE'S crown, and puts it on + his own head.] + + TAMBURLAINE. Not all the curses which the <a href="#linknote-129" + name="linknoteref-129" id="linknoteref-129">129</a> Furies breathe + Shall make me leave so rich a prize as this. + Theridamas, Techelles, and the rest, + Who think you now is king of Persia? + + ALL. Tamburlaine! Tamburlaine! + + TAMBURLAINE. Though Mars himself, the angry god of arms, + And all the earthly potentates conspire + To dispossess me of this diadem, + Yet will I wear it in despite of them, + As great commander of this eastern world, + If you but say that Tamburlaine shall reign. + + ALL. Long live Tamburlaine, and reign in Asia! + + TAMBURLAINE. So; now it is more surer on my head + Than if the gods had held a parliament, + And all pronounc'd me king of Persia. + + [Exeunt.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0014" id="link2H_4_0014"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + ACT III. + </h2> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0015" id="link2H_4_0015"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE I. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter BAJAZETH, the KINGS OF FEZ, MOROCCO, and ARGIER, with + others, in great pomp. + + BAJAZETH. Great kings of Barbary, and my portly bassoes, <a + href="#linknote-130" name="linknoteref-130" id="linknoteref-130">130</a> + We hear the Tartars and the eastern thieves, + Under the conduct of one Tamburlaine, + Presume a bickering with your emperor, + And think to rouse us from our dreadful siege + Of the famous Grecian Constantinople. + You know our army is invincible; + As many circumcised Turks we have, + And warlike bands of Christians renied, <a href="#linknote-131" + name="linknoteref-131" id="linknoteref-131">131</a> + As hath the ocean or the Terrene <a href="#linknote-132" + name="linknoteref-132" id="linknoteref-132">132</a> sea + Small drops of water when the moon begins + To join in one her semicircled horns: + Yet would we not be brav'd with foreign power, + Nor raise our siege before the Grecians yield, + Or breathless lie before the city-walls. + + KING OF FEZ. Renowmed <a href="#linknote-133" name="linknoteref-133" + id="linknoteref-133">133</a> emperor and mighty general, + What, if you sent the bassoes of your guard + To charge him to remain in Asia, + Or else to threaten death and deadly arms + As from the mouth of mighty Bajazeth? + + BAJAZETH. Hie thee, my basso, <a href="#linknote-134" name="linknoteref-134" + id="linknoteref-134">134</a> fast to Persia; + Tell him thy lord, the Turkish emperor, + Dread lord of Afric, Europe, and Asia, + Great king and conqueror of Graecia, + The ocean, Terrene, and the Coal-black sea, + The high and highest monarch of the world, + Wills and commands, (for say not I entreat,) + Not <a href="#linknote-135" name="linknoteref-135" id="linknoteref-135">135</a> once to set his foot in <a + href="#linknote-136" name="linknoteref-136" id="linknoteref-136">136</a> Africa, + Or spread <a href="#linknote-137" name="linknoteref-137" + id="linknoteref-137">137</a> his colours in Graecia, + Lest he incur the fury of my wrath: + Tell him I am content to take a truce, + Because I hear he bears a valiant mind: + But if, presuming on his silly power, + He be so mad to manage arms with me, + Then stay thou with him,—say, I bid thee so; + And if, before the sun have measur'd heaven <a href="#linknote-138" + name="linknoteref-138" id="linknoteref-138">138</a> + With triple circuit, thou regreet us not, + We mean to take his morning's next arise + For messenger he will not be reclaim'd, + And mean to fetch thee in despite of him. + + BASSO. Most great and puissant monarch of the earth, + Your basso will accomplish your behest, + And shew your pleasure to the Persian, + As fits the legate of the stately Turk. + + [Exit.] + + KING OF ARGIER. They say he is the king of Persia; + But, if he dare attempt to stir your siege, + 'Twere requisite he should be ten times more, + For all flesh quakes at your magnificence. + + BAJAZETH. True, Argier; and tremble[s] at my looks. + + KING OF MOROCCO. The spring is hinder'd by your smothering host; + For neither rain can fall upon the earth, + Nor sun reflex his virtuous beams thereon, + The ground is mantled with such multitudes. + + BAJAZETH. All this is true as holy Mahomet; + And all the trees are blasted with our breaths. + + KING OF FEZ. What thinks your greatness best to be achiev'd + In pursuit of the city's overthrow? + + BAJAZETH. I will the captive pioners <a href="#linknote-139" + name="linknoteref-139" id="linknoteref-139">139</a> of Argier + Cut off the water that by leaden pipes + Runs to the city from the mountain Carnon; + Two thousand horse shall forage up and down, + That no relief or succour come by land; + And all the sea my galleys countermand: + Then shall our footmen lie within the trench, + And with their cannons, mouth'd like Orcus' gulf, + Batter the walls, and we will enter in; + And thus the Grecians shall be conquered. + + [Exeunt.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0016" id="link2H_4_0016"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE II. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter ZENOCRATE, AGYDAS, ANIPPE, with others. + + AGYDAS. Madam Zenocrate, may I presume + To know the cause of these unquiet fits + That work such trouble to your wonted rest? + 'Tis more than pity such a heavenly face + Should by heart's sorrow wax so wan and pale, + When your offensive rape by Tamburlaine + (Which of your whole displeasures should be most) + Hath seem'd to be digested long ago. + + ZENOCRATE. Although it be digested long ago, + As his exceeding favours have deserv'd, + And might content the Queen of Heaven, as well + As it hath chang'd my first-conceiv'd disdain; + Yet since a farther passion feeds my thoughts + With ceaseless <a href="#linknote-140" name="linknoteref-140" + id="linknoteref-140">140</a> and disconsolate conceits, <a + href="#linknote-141" name="linknoteref-141" id="linknoteref-141">141</a> + Which dye my looks so lifeless as they are, + And might, if my extremes had full events, + Make me the ghastly counterfeit <a href="#linknote-142" + name="linknoteref-142" id="linknoteref-142">142</a> of death. + + AGYDAS. Eternal heaven sooner be dissolv'd, + And all that pierceth Phoebus' silver eye, + Before such hap fall to Zenocrate! + + ZENOCRATE. Ah, life and soul, still hover in his <a href="#linknote-143" + name="linknoteref-143" id="linknoteref-143">143</a> breast, + And leave my body senseless as the earth, + Or else unite you <a href="#linknote-144" name="linknoteref-144" + id="linknoteref-144">144</a> to his life and soul, + That I may live and die with Tamburlaine! + + Enter, behind, TAMBURLAINE, with TECHELLES, and others. + + AGYDAS. With Tamburlaine! Ah, fair Zenocrate, + Let not a man so vile and barbarous, + That holds you from your father in despite, + And keeps you from the honours of a queen, + (Being suppos'd his worthless concubine,) + Be honour'd with your love but for necessity! + So, now the mighty Soldan hears of you, + Your highness needs not doubt but in short time + He will, with Tamburlaine's destruction, + Redeem you from this deadly servitude. + + ZENOCRATE. Leave <a href="#linknote-145" name="linknoteref-145" + id="linknoteref-145">145</a> to wound me with these words, + And speak of Tamburlaine as he deserves: + The entertainment we have had of him + Is far from villany or servitude, + And might in noble minds be counted princely. + + AGYDAS. How can you fancy one that looks so fierce, + Only dispos'd to martial stratagems? + Who, when he shall embrace you in his arms, + Will tell how many thousand men he slew; + And, when you look for amorous discourse, + Will rattle forth his facts <a href="#linknote-146" name="linknoteref-146" + id="linknoteref-146">146</a> of war and blood, + Too harsh a subject for your dainty ears. + + ZENOCRATE. As looks the sun through Nilus' flowing stream, + Or when the Morning holds him in her arms, + So looks my lordly love, fair Tamburlaine; + His talk much <a href="#linknote-147" name="linknoteref-147" + id="linknoteref-147">147</a> sweeter than the Muses' song + They sung for honour 'gainst Pierides, <a href="#linknote-148" + name="linknoteref-148" id="linknoteref-148">148</a> + Or when Minerva did with Neptune strive: + And higher would I rear my estimate + Than Juno, sister to the highest god, + If I were match'd with mighty Tamburlaine. + + AGYDAS. Yet be not so inconstant in your love, + But let the young Arabian <a href="#linknote-149" name="linknoteref-149" + id="linknoteref-149">149</a> live in hope, + After your rescue to enjoy his choice. + You see, though first the king of Persia, + Being a shepherd, seem'd to love you much, + Now, in his majesty, he leaves those looks, + Those words of favour, and those comfortings, + And gives no more than common courtesies. + + ZENOCRATE. Thence rise the tears that so distain my cheeks, + Fearing his love <a href="#linknote-150" name="linknoteref-150" + id="linknoteref-150">150</a> through my unworthiness. + + [TAMBURLAINE goes to her, and takes her away lovingly by + the hand, looking wrathfully on AGYDAS, and says nothing. + Exeunt all except AGYDAS.] + + AGYDAS. Betray'd by fortune and suspicious love, + Threaten'd with frowning wrath and jealousy, + Surpris'd with fear of <a href="#linknote-151" name="linknoteref-151" + id="linknoteref-151">151</a> hideous revenge, + I stand aghast; but most astonied + To see his choler shut in secret thoughts, + And wrapt in silence of his angry soul: + Upon his brows was pourtray'd ugly death; + And in his eyes the fury <a href="#linknote-152" name="linknoteref-152" + id="linknoteref-152">152</a> of his heart, + That shone <a href="#linknote-153" name="linknoteref-153" + id="linknoteref-153">153</a> as comets, menacing revenge, + And cast a pale complexion on his cheeks. + As when the seaman sees the Hyades + Gather an army of Cimmerian clouds, + (Auster and Aquilon with winged steeds, + All sweating, tilt about the watery heavens, + With shivering spears enforcing thunder-claps, + And from their shields strike flames of lightning,) + All-fearful folds his sails, and sounds the main, + Lifting his prayers to the heavens for aid + Against the terror of the winds and waves; + So fares Agydas for the late-felt frowns, + That send <a href="#linknote-154" name="linknoteref-154" + id="linknoteref-154">154</a> a tempest to my daunted thoughts, + And make my soul divine her overthrow. + + Re-enter TECHELLES with a naked dagger, and USUMCASANE. + + TECHELLES. See you, Agydas, how the king salutes you! + He bids you prophesy what it imports. + + AGYDAS. I prophesied before, and now I prove + The killing frowns of jealousy and love. + He needed not with words confirm my fear, + For words are vain where working tools present + The naked action of my threaten'd end: + It says, Agydas, thou shalt surely die, + And of extremities elect the least; + More honour and less pain it may procure, + To die by this resolved hand of thine + Than stay the torments he and heaven have sworn. + Then haste, Agydas, and prevent the plagues + Which thy prolonged fates may draw on thee: + Go wander free from fear of tyrant's rage, + Removed from the torments and the hell + Wherewith he may excruciate thy soul; + And let Agydas by Agydas die, + And with this stab slumber eternally. + + [Stabs himself.] + + TECHELLES. Usumcasane, see, how right the man + Hath hit the meaning of my lord the king! + + USUMCASANE. Faith, and, Techelles, it was manly done; + And, since he was so wise and honourable, + Let us afford him now the bearing hence, + And crave his triple-worthy burial. + + TECHELLES. Agreed, Casane; we will honour him. + + [Exeunt, bearing out the body.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0017" id="link2H_4_0017"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE III. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter TAMBURLAINE, TECHELLES, USUMCASANE, THERIDAMAS, + a BASSO, ZENOCRATE, ANIPPE, with others. + + TAMBURLAINE. Basso, by this thy lord and master knows + I mean to meet him in Bithynia: + See, how he comes! tush, Turks are full of brags, + And menace <a href="#linknote-155" name="linknoteref-155" + id="linknoteref-155">155</a> more than they can well perform. + He meet me in the field, and fetch <a href="#linknote-156" + name="linknoteref-156" id="linknoteref-156">156</a> thee hence! + Alas, poor Turk! his fortune is too weak + T' encounter with the strength of Tamburlaine: + View well my camp, and speak indifferently; + Do not my captains and my soldiers look + As if they meant to conquer Africa? + + BASSO. Your men are valiant, but their number few, + And cannot terrify his mighty host: + My lord, the great commander of the world, + Besides fifteen contributory kings, + Hath now in arms ten thousand janizaries, + Mounted on lusty Mauritanian steeds, + Brought to the war by men of Tripoly; + Two hundred thousand footmen that have serv'd + In two set battles fought in Graecia; + And for the expedition of this war, + If he think good, can from his garrisons + Withdraw as many more to follow him. + + TECHELLES. The more he brings, the greater is the spoil; + For, when they perish by our warlike hands, + We mean to set <a href="#linknote-157" name="linknoteref-157" + id="linknoteref-157">157</a> our footmen on their steeds, + And rifle all those stately janizars. + + TAMBURLAINE. But will those kings accompany your lord? + + BASSO. Such as his highness please; but some must stay + To rule the provinces he late subdu'd. + + TAMBURLAINE. [To his OFFICERS] + Then fight courageously: their crowns are yours; + This hand shall set them on your conquering heads, + That made me emperor of Asia. + + USUMCASANE. Let him bring millions infinite of men, + Unpeopling Western Africa and Greece, + Yet we assure us of the victory. + + THERIDAMAS. Even he, that in a trice vanquish'd two kings + More mighty than the Turkish emperor, + Shall rouse him out of Europe, and pursue + His scatter'd army till they yield or die. + + TAMBURLAINE. Well said, Theridamas! speak in that mood; + For WILL and SHALL best fitteth Tamburlaine, + Whose smiling stars give him assured hope + Of martial triumph ere he meet his foes. + I that am term'd the scourge and wrath of God, + The only fear and terror of the world, + Will first subdue the Turk, and then enlarge + Those Christian captives which you keep as slaves, + Burdening their bodies with your heavy chains, + And feeding them with thin and slender fare; + That naked row about the Terrene <a href="#linknote-158" + name="linknoteref-158" id="linknoteref-158">158</a> sea, + And, when they chance to rest or breathe <a href="#linknote-159" + name="linknoteref-159" id="linknoteref-159">159</a> a space, + Are punish'd with bastones <a href="#linknote-160" name="linknoteref-160" + id="linknoteref-160">160</a> so grievously + That they <a href="#linknote-161" name="linknoteref-161" + id="linknoteref-161">161</a> lie panting on the galleys' side, + And strive for life at every stroke they give. + These are the cruel pirates of Argier, + That damned train, the scum of Africa, + Inhabited with straggling runagates, + That make quick havoc of the Christian blood: + But, as I live, that town shall curse the time + That Tamburlaine set foot in Africa. + + Enter BAJAZETH, BASSOES, the KINGS OF FEZ, MOROCCO, + and ARGIER; ZABINA and EBEA. + + BAJAZETH. Bassoes and janizaries of my guard, + Attend upon the person of your lord, + The greatest potentate of Africa. + + TAMBURLAINE. Techelles and the rest, prepare your swords; + I mean t' encounter with that Bajazeth. + + BAJAZETH. Kings of Fez, Morocco, <a href="#linknote-162" + name="linknoteref-162" id="linknoteref-162">162</a> and Argier, + He calls me Bajazeth, whom you call lord! + Note the presumption of this Scythian slave!— + I tell thee, villain, those that lead my horse + Have to their names titles <a href="#linknote-163" name="linknoteref-163" + id="linknoteref-163">163</a> of dignity; + And dar'st thou bluntly call me Bajazeth? + + TAMBURLAINE. And know, thou Turk, that those which lead my horse + Shall lead thee captive thorough Africa; + And dar'st thou bluntly call me Tamburlaine? + + BAJAZETH. By Mahomet my kinsman's sepulchre, + And by the holy Alcoran I swear, + He shall be made a chaste and lustless eunuch, + And in my sarell <a href="#linknote-164" name="linknoteref-164" + id="linknoteref-164">164</a> tend my concubines; + And all his captains, that thus stoutly stand, + Shall draw the chariot of my emperess, + Whom I have brought to see their overthrow! + + TAMBURLAINE. By this my sword that conquer'd Persia, + Thy fall shall make me famous through the world! + I will not tell thee how I'll <a href="#linknote-165" name="linknoteref-165" + id="linknoteref-165">165</a> handle thee, + But every common soldier of my camp + Shall smile to see thy miserable state. + + KING OF FEZ. What means the <a href="#linknote-166" name="linknoteref-166" + id="linknoteref-166">166</a> mighty Turkish emperor, + To talk with one so base as Tamburlaine? + + KING OF MOROCCO. Ye Moors and valiant men of Barbary. + How can ye suffer these indignities? + + KING OF ARGIER. Leave words, and let them feel your lances' + points, + Which glided through the bowels of the Greeks. + + BAJAZETH. Well said, my stout contributory kings! + Your threefold army and my hugy <a href="#linknote-167" + name="linknoteref-167" id="linknoteref-167">167</a> host + Shall swallow up these base-born Persians. + + TECHELLES. Puissant, renowm'd, <a href="#linknote-168" + name="linknoteref-168" id="linknoteref-168">168</a> and mighty Tamburlaine, + Why stay we thus prolonging of <a href="#linknote-169" + name="linknoteref-169" id="linknoteref-169">169</a> their lives? + + THERIDAMAS. I long to see those crowns won by our swords, + That we may rule <a href="#linknote-170" name="linknoteref-170" + id="linknoteref-170">170</a> as kings of Africa. + + USUMCASANE. What coward would not fight for such a prize? + + TAMBURLAINE. Fight all courageously, and be you kings: + I speak it, and my words are oracles. + + BAJAZETH. Zabina, mother of three braver <a href="#linknote-171" + name="linknoteref-171" id="linknoteref-171">171</a> boys + Than Hercules, that in his infancy + Did pash <a href="#linknote-172" name="linknoteref-172" id="linknoteref-172">172</a> the jaws of serpents venomous; + Whose hands are made to gripe a warlike lance, + Their shoulders broad for complete armour fit, + Their limbs more large and of a bigger size + Than all the brats y-sprung <a href="#linknote-173" name="linknoteref-173" + id="linknoteref-173">173</a> from Typhon's loins; + Who, when they come unto their father's age, + Will batter turrets with their manly fists;— + Sit here upon this royal chair of state, + And on thy head wear my imperial crown, + Until I bring this sturdy Tamburlaine + And all his captains bound in captive chains. + + ZABINA. Such good success happen to Bajazeth! + + TAMBURLAINE. Zenocrate, the loveliest maid alive, + Fairer than rocks of pearl and precious stone, + The only paragon of Tamburlaine; + Whose eyes are brighter than the lamps of heaven, + And speech more pleasant than sweet harmony; + That with thy looks canst clear the darken'd sky, + And calm the rage of thundering Jupiter; + Sit down by her, adorned with my crown, + As if thou wert the empress of the world. + Stir not, Zenocrate, until thou see + Me march victoriously with all my men, + Triumphing over him and these his kings, + Which I will bring as vassals to thy feet; + Till then, take thou my crown, vaunt of my worth, + And manage words with her, as we will arms. + + ZENOCRATE. And may my love, the king of Persia, + Return with victory and free from wound! + + BAJAZETH. Now shalt thou feel the force of Turkish arms, + Which lately made all Europe quake for fear. + I have of Turks, Arabians, Moors, and Jews, + Enough to cover all Bithynia: + Let thousands die; their slaughter'd carcasses + Shall serve for walls and bulwarks to the rest; + And as the heads of Hydra, so my power, + Subdu'd, shall stand as mighty as before: + If they should yield their necks unto the sword, + Thy soldiers' arms could not endure to strike + So many blows as I have heads for them. <a href="#linknote-174" + name="linknoteref-174" id="linknoteref-174">174</a> + Thou know'st not, foolish-hardy Tamburlaine, + What 'tis to meet me in the open field, + That leave no ground for thee to march upon. + + TAMBURLAINE. Our conquering swords shall marshal us the way + We use to march upon the slaughter'd foe, + Trampling their bowels with our horses' hoofs, + Brave horses bred on the <a href="#linknote-175" name="linknoteref-175" + id="linknoteref-175">175</a> white Tartarian hills + My camp is like to Julius Caesar's host, + That never fought but had the victory; + Nor in Pharsalia was there such hot war + As these, my followers, willingly would have. + Legions of spirits, fleeting in the air, + Direct our bullets and our weapons' points, + And make your strokes to wound the senseless light; <a href="#linknote-176" + name="linknoteref-176" id="linknoteref-176">176</a> + And when she sees our bloody colours spread, + Then Victory begins to take her flight, + Resting herself upon my milk-white tent.— + But come, my lords, to weapons let us fall; + The field is ours, the Turk, his wife, and all. + + [Exit with his followers.] + + BAJAZETH. Come, kings and bassoes, let us glut our swords, + That thirst to drink the feeble Persians' blood. + + [Exit with his followers.] + + ZABINA. Base concubine, must thou be plac'd by me + That am the empress of the mighty Turk? + + ZENOCRATE. Disdainful Turkess, and unreverend boss, <a href="#linknote-177" + name="linknoteref-177" id="linknoteref-177">177</a> + Call'st thou me concubine, that am betroth'd + Unto the great and mighty Tamburlaine? + + ZABINA. To Tamburlaine, the great Tartarian thief! + + ZENOCRATE. Thou wilt repent these lavish words of thine + When thy great basso-master and thyself + Must plead for mercy at his kingly feet, + And sue to me to be your advocate. <a href="#linknote-178" + name="linknoteref-178" id="linknoteref-178">178</a> + + ZABINA. And sue to thee! I tell thee, shameless girl, + Thou shalt be laundress to my waiting-maid.— + How lik'st thou her, Ebea? will she serve? + + EBEA. Madam, she thinks perhaps she is too fine; + But I shall turn her into other weeds, + And make her dainty fingers fall to work. + + ZENOCRATE. Hear'st thou, Anippe, how thy drudge doth talk? + And how my slave, her mistress, menaceth? + Both for their sauciness shall be employ'd + To dress the common soldiers' meat and drink; + For we will scorn they should come near ourselves. + + ANIPPE. Yet sometimes let your highness send for them + To do the work my chambermaid disdains. + + [They sound to the battle within.] + + ZENOCRATE. Ye gods and powers that govern Persia, + And made my lordly love her worthy king, + Now strengthen him against the Turkish Bajazeth, + And let his foes, like flocks of fearful roes + Pursu'd by hunters, fly his angry looks, + That I may see him issue conqueror! + + ZABINA. Now, Mahomet, solicit God himself, + And make him rain down murdering shot from heaven, + To dash the Scythians' brains, and strike them dead, + That dare <a href="#linknote-179" name="linknoteref-179" + id="linknoteref-179">179</a> to manage arms with him + That offer'd jewels to thy sacred shrine + When first he warr'd against the Christians! + + [They sound again to the battle within.] + + ZENOCRATE. By this the Turks lie weltering in their blood, + And Tamburlaine is lord of Africa. + + ZABINA. Thou art deceiv'd. I heard the trumpets sound + As when my emperor overthrew the Greeks, + And led them captive into Africa. + Straight will I use thee as thy pride deserves; + Prepare thyself to live and die my slave. + + ZENOCRATE. If Mahomet should come from heaven and swear + My royal lord is slain or conquered, + Yet should he not persuade me otherwise + But that he lives and will be conqueror. + + Re-enter BAJAZETH, pursued by TAMBURLAINE. <a href="#linknote-180" + name="linknoteref-180" id="linknoteref-180">180</a> + + TAMBURLAINE. Now, king of bassoes, who is conqueror? + + BAJAZETH. Thou, by the fortune of this damned foil. <a href="#linknote-181" + name="linknoteref-181" id="linknoteref-181">181</a> + + TAMBURLAINE. Where are your stout contributory kings? + + Re-enter TECHELLES, THERIDAMAS, and USUMCASANE. + + TECHELLES. We have their crowns; their bodies strow the field. + + TAMBURLAINE. Each man a crown! why, kingly fought, i'faith. + Deliver them into my treasury. + + ZENOCRATE. Now let me offer to my gracious lord + His royal crown again so highly won. + + TAMBURLAINE. Nay, take the Turkish crown from her, Zenocrate, + And crown me emperor of Africa. + + ZABINA. No, Tamburlaine; though now thou gat <a href="#linknote-182" + name="linknoteref-182" id="linknoteref-182">182</a> the best, + Thou shalt not yet be lord of Africa. + + THERIDAMAS. Give her the crown, Turkess, you were best. + + [Takes it from her.] + + ZABINA. Injurious villains, thieves, runagates, + How dare you thus abuse my majesty? + + THERIDAMAS. Here, madam, you are empress; she is none. + + [Gives it to ZENOCRATE.] + + TAMBURLAINE. Not now, Theridamas; her time is past: + The pillars, that have bolster'd up those terms, + Are faln in clusters at my conquering feet. + + ZABINA. Though he be prisoner, he may be ransom'd. + + TAMBURLAINE. Not all the world shall ransom Bajazeth. + + BAJAZETH. Ah, fair Zabina! we have lost the field; + And never had the Turkish emperor + So great a foil by any foreign foe. + Now will the Christian miscreants be glad, + Ringing with joy their superstitious bells, + And making bonfires for my overthrow: + But, ere I die, those foul idolaters + Shall make me bonfires with their filthy bones; + For, though the glory of this day be lost, + Afric and Greece have garrisons enough + To make me sovereign of the earth again. + + TAMBURLAINE. Those walled garrisons will I subdue, + And write myself great lord of Africa: + So from the East unto the furthest West + Shall Tamburlaine extend his puissant arm. + The galleys and those pilling <a href="#linknote-183" name="linknoteref-183" + id="linknoteref-183">183</a> brigandines, + That yearly sail to the Venetian gulf, + And hover in the Straits for Christians' wreck, + Shall lie at anchor in the Isle Asant, + Until the Persian fleet and men-of-war, + Sailing along the oriental sea, + Have fetch'd about the Indian continent, + Even from Persepolis to Mexico, + And thence unto the Straits of Jubalter; + Where they shall meet and join their force in one. + Keeping in awe the Bay of Portingale, + And all the ocean by the British <a href="#linknote-184" + name="linknoteref-184" id="linknoteref-184">184</a> shore; + And by this means I'll win the world at last. + + BAJAZETH. Yet set a ransom on me, Tamburlaine. + + TAMBURLAINE. What, think'st thou Tamburlaine esteems thy gold? + I'll make the kings of India, ere I die, + Offer their mines, to sue for peace, to me, + And dig for treasure to appease my wrath.— + Come, bind them both, and one lead in the Turk; + The Turkess let my love's maid lead away, + + [They bind them.] + + BAJAZETH. Ah, villains, dare you touch my sacred arms?— + O Mahomet! O sleepy Mahomet! + + ZABINA. O cursed Mahomet, that mak'st us thus + The slaves to Scythians rude and barbarous! + + TAMBURLAINE. Come, bring them in; and for this happy conquest + Triumph, and solemnize a martial <a href="#linknote-185" + name="linknoteref-185" id="linknoteref-185">185</a> feast. + + [Exeunt.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0018" id="link2H_4_0018"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + ACT IV. + </h2> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0019" id="link2H_4_0019"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE I. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter the SOLDAN OF EGYPT, CAPOLIN, LORDS, and a MESSENGER. + + SOLDAN. Awake, ye men of Memphis! <a href="#linknote-186" + name="linknoteref-186" id="linknoteref-186">186</a> hear the clang + Of Scythian trumpets; hear the basilisks, <a href="#linknote-187" + name="linknoteref-187" id="linknoteref-187">187</a> + That, roaring, shake Damascus' turrets down! + The rogue of Volga holds Zenocrate, + The Soldan's daughter, for his concubine, + And, with a troop of thieves and vagabonds, + Hath spread his colours to our high disgrace, + While you, faint-hearted base Egyptians, + Lie slumbering on the flowery banks of Nile, + As crocodiles that unaffrighted rest + While thundering cannons rattle on their skins. + + MESSENGER. Nay, mighty Soldan, did your greatness see + The frowning looks of fiery Tamburlaine, + That with his terror and imperious eyes + Commands the hearts of his associates, + It might amaze your royal majesty. + + SOLDAN. Villain, I tell thee, were that Tamburlaine + As monstrous <a href="#linknote-188" name="linknoteref-188" + id="linknoteref-188">188</a> as Gorgon prince of hell, + The Soldan would not start a foot from him. + But speak, what power hath he? + + MESSENGER. Mighty lord, + Three hundred thousand men in armour clad, + Upon their prancing steeds, disdainfully + With wanton paces trampling on the ground; + Five hundred thousand footmen threatening shot, + Shaking their swords, their spears, and iron bills, + Environing their standard round, that stood + As bristle-pointed as a thorny wood; + Their warlike engines and munition + Exceed the forces of their martial men. + + SOLDAN. Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars, + Or ever-drizzling <a href="#linknote-189" name="linknoteref-189" + id="linknoteref-189">189</a> drops of April showers, + Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down, + Yet would the Soldan by his conquering power + So scatter and consume them in his rage, + That not a man should <a href="#linknote-190" name="linknoteref-190" + id="linknoteref-190">190</a> live to rue their fall. + + CAPOLIN. So might your highness, had you time to sort + Your fighting men, and raise your royal host; + But Tamburlaine by expedition + Advantage takes of your unreadiness. + + SOLDAN. Let him take all th' advantages he can: + Were all the world conspir'd to fight for him, + Nay, were he devil, <a href="#linknote-191" name="linknoteref-191" + id="linknoteref-191">191</a> as he is no man, + Yet in revenge of fair Zenocrate, + Whom he detaineth in despite of us, + This arm should send him down to Erebus, + To shroud his shame in darkness of the night. + + MESSENGER. Pleaseth your mightiness to understand, + His resolution far exceedeth all. + The first day when he pitcheth down his tents, + White is their hue, and on his silver crest + A snowy feather spangled-white he bears, + To signify the mildness of his mind, + That, satiate with spoil, refuseth blood: + But, when Aurora mounts the second time, + As red as scarlet is his furniture; + Then must his kindled wrath be quench'd with blood, + Not sparing any that can manage arms: + But, if these threats move not submission, + Black are his colours, black pavilion; + His spear, his shield, his horse, his armour, plumes, + And jetty feathers, menace death and hell; + Without respect of sex, degree, or age, + He razeth all his foes with fire and sword. + + SOLDAN. Merciless villain, peasant, ignorant + Of lawful arms or martial discipline! + Pillage and murder are his usual trades: + The slave usurps the glorious name of war. + See, Capolin, the fair Arabian king, <a href="#linknote-192" + name="linknoteref-192" id="linknoteref-192">192</a> + That hath been disappointed by this slave + Of my fair daughter and his princely love, + May have fresh warning to go war with us, + And be reveng'd for her disparagement. + + [Exeunt.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0020" id="link2H_4_0020"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE II. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter TAMBURLAINE, TECHELLES, THERIDAMAS, USUMCASANE, + ZENOCRATE, ANIPPE, two MOORS drawing BAJAZETH in a cage, + and ZABINA following him. + + TAMBURLAINE. Bring out my footstool. + + [They take BAJAZETH out of the cage.] + + BAJAZETH. Ye holy priests of heavenly Mahomet, + That, sacrificing, slice and cut your flesh, + Staining his altars with your purple blood, + Make heaven to frown, and every fixed star + To suck up poison from the moorish fens, + And pour it <a href="#linknote-193" name="linknoteref-193" + id="linknoteref-193">193</a> in this glorious tyrant's throat! + + TAMBURLAINE. The chiefest god, first mover of that sphere + Enchas'd with thousands ever-shining lamps, + Will sooner burn the glorious frame of heaven + Than it should <a href="#linknote-194" name="linknoteref-194" + id="linknoteref-194">194</a> so conspire my overthrow. + But, villain, thou that wishest this <a href="#linknote-195" + name="linknoteref-195" id="linknoteref-195">195</a> to me, + Fall prostrate on the low disdainful earth, + And be the footstool of great Tamburlaine, + That I may rise into <a href="#linknote-196" name="linknoteref-196" + id="linknoteref-196">196</a> my royal throne. + + BAJAZETH. First shalt thou rip my bowels with thy sword, + And sacrifice my heart <a href="#linknote-197" name="linknoteref-197" + id="linknoteref-197">197</a> to death and hell, + Before I yield to such a slavery. + + TAMBURLAINE. Base villain, vassal, slave to Tamburlaine, + Unworthy to embrace or touch the ground + That bears the honour of my royal weight; + Stoop, villain, stoop! stoop; <a href="#linknote-198" name="linknoteref-198" + id="linknoteref-198">198</a> for so he bids + That may command thee piecemeal to be torn, + Or scatter'd like the lofty cedar-trees + Struck with the voice of thundering Jupiter. + + BAJAZETH. Then, as I look down to the damned fiends, + Fiends, look on me! and thou, dread god of hell, + With ebon sceptre strike this hateful earth, + And make it swallow both of us at once! + + [TAMBURLAINE gets up on him into his chair.] + + TAMBURLAINE. Now clear the triple region of the air, + And let the Majesty of Heaven behold + Their scourge and terror tread on emperors. + Smile, stars that reign'd at my nativity, + And dim the brightness of your <a href="#linknote-199" + name="linknoteref-199" id="linknoteref-199">199</a> neighbour lamps; + Disdain to borrow light of Cynthia! + For I, the chiefest lamp of all the earth, + First rising in the east with mild aspect, + But fixed now in the meridian line, + Will send up fire to your turning spheres, + And cause the sun to borrow light of you. + My sword struck fire from his coat of steel, + Even in Bithynia, when I took this Turk; + As when a fiery exhalation, + Wrapt in the bowels of a freezing cloud, + Fighting for passage, make[s] the welkin crack, + And casts a flash of lightning to <a href="#linknote-200" + name="linknoteref-200" id="linknoteref-200">200</a> the earth: + But, ere I march to wealthy Persia, + Or leave Damascus and th' Egyptian fields, + As was the fame of Clymene's brain-sick son + That almost brent <a href="#linknote-201" name="linknoteref-201" + id="linknoteref-201">201</a> the axle-tree of heaven, + So shall our swords, our lances, and our shot + Fill all the air with fiery meteors; + Then, when the sky shall wax as red as blood, + It shall be said I made it red myself, + To make me think of naught but blood and war. + + ZABINA. Unworthy king, that by thy cruelty + Unlawfully usurp'st the Persian seat, + Dar'st thou, that never saw an emperor + Before thou met my husband in the field, + Being thy captive, thus abuse his state, + Keeping his kingly body in a cage, + That roofs of gold and sun-bright palaces + Should have prepar'd to entertain his grace? + And treading him beneath thy loathsome feet, + Whose feet the kings <a href="#linknote-202" name="linknoteref-202" + id="linknoteref-202">202</a> of Africa have kiss'd? + + TECHELLES. You must devise some torment worse, my lord, + To make these captives rein their lavish tongues. + + TAMBURLAINE. Zenocrate, look better to your slave. + + ZENOCRATE. She is my handmaid's slave, and she shall look + That these abuses flow not from <a href="#linknote-203" + name="linknoteref-203" id="linknoteref-203">203</a> her tongue.— + Chide her, Anippe. + + ANIPPE. Let these be warnings, then, for you, <a href="#linknote-204" + name="linknoteref-204" id="linknoteref-204">204</a> my slave, + How you abuse the person of the king; + Or else I swear to have you whipt stark nak'd. <a href="#linknote-205" + name="linknoteref-205" id="linknoteref-205">205</a> + + BAJAZETH. Great Tamburlaine, great in my overthrow, + Ambitious pride shall make thee fall as low, + For treading on the back of Bajazeth, + That should be horsed on four mighty kings. + + TAMBURLAINE. Thy names, and titles, and thy dignities <a + href="#linknote-206" name="linknoteref-206" id="linknoteref-206">206</a> + Are fled from Bajazeth, and remain with me, + That will maintain it 'gainst a world of kings.— + Put him in again. + + [They put him into the cage.] + + BAJAZETH. Is this a place for mighty Bajazeth? + Confusion light on him that helps thee thus! + + TAMBURLAINE. There, whiles <a href="#linknote-207" name="linknoteref-207" + id="linknoteref-207">207</a> he lives, shall Bajazeth be kept; + And, where I go, be thus in triumph drawn; + And thou, his wife, shalt <a href="#linknote-208" name="linknoteref-208" + id="linknoteref-208">208</a> feed him with the scraps + My servitors shall bring thee from my board; + For he that gives him other food than this, + Shall sit by him, and starve to death himself: + This is my mind, and I will have it so. + Not all the kings and emperors of the earth, + If they would lay their crowne before my feet, + Shall ransom him, or take him from his cage: + The ages that shall talk of Tamburlaine, + Even from this day to Plato's wondrous year, + Shall talk how I have handled Bajazeth: + These Moors, that drew him from Bithynia + To fair Damascus, where we now remain, + Shall lead him with us wheresoe'er we go.— + Techelles, and my loving followers, + Now may we see Damascus' lofty towers, + Like to the shadows of Pyramides + That with their beauties grace <a href="#linknote-209" + name="linknoteref-209" id="linknoteref-209">209</a> the Memphian fields. + The golden stature <a href="#linknote-210" name="linknoteref-210" + id="linknoteref-210">210</a> of their feather'd bird, <a + href="#linknote-211" name="linknoteref-211" id="linknoteref-211">211</a> + That spreads her wings upon the city-walls, + Shall not defend it from our battering shot: + The townsmen mask in silk and cloth of gold, + And every house is as a treasury; + The men, the treasure, and the town are <a href="#linknote-212" + name="linknoteref-212" id="linknoteref-212">212</a> ours. + + THERIDAMAS. Your tents of white now pitch'd before the gates, + And gentle flags of amity display'd, + I doubt not but the governor will yield, + Offering Damascus to your majesty. + + TAMBURLAINE. So shall he have his life, and all the rest: + But, if he stay until the bloody flag + Be once advanc'd on my vermilion tent, + He dies, and those that kept us out so long; + And, when they see me march in black array, + With mournful streamers hanging down their heads, + Were in that city all the world contain'd, + Not one should scape, but perish by our swords. + + ZENOCRATE. Yet would you have some pity for my sake, + Because it is my country <a href="#linknote-213" name="linknoteref-213" + id="linknoteref-213">213</a> and my father's. + + TAMBURLAINE. Not for the world, Zenocrate, if I have sworn.— + Come; bring in the Turk. + + [Exeunt.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0021" id="link2H_4_0021"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE III. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter SOLDAN, KING OF ARABIA, <a href="#linknote-214" + name="linknoteref-214" id="linknoteref-214">214</a> CAPOLIN, and SOLDIERS, + with streaming colours. + + SOLDAN. Methinks we march as Meleager did, + Environed with brave Argolian knights, + To chase the savage Calydonian <a href="#linknote-215" + name="linknoteref-215" id="linknoteref-215">215</a> boar, + Or Cephalus, with lusty <a href="#linknote-216" name="linknoteref-216" + id="linknoteref-216">216</a> Theban youths, + Against the wolf that angry Themis sent + To waste and spoil the sweet Aonian fields. + A monster of five hundred thousand heads, + Compact of rapine, piracy, and spoil, + The scum of men, the hate and scourge of God, + Raves in Aegyptia, and annoyeth us: + My lord, it is the bloody Tamburlaine, + A sturdy felon, and <a href="#linknote-217" name="linknoteref-217" + id="linknoteref-217">217</a> a base-bred thief, + By murder raised to the Persian crown, + That dare control us in our territories. + To tame the pride of this presumptuous beast, + Join your Arabians with the Soldan's power; + Let us unite our royal bands in one, + And hasten to remove Damascus' siege. + It is a blemish to the majesty + And high estate of mighty emperors, + That such a base usurping vagabond + Should brave a king, or wear a princely crown. + + KING OF ARABIA. Renowmed <a href="#linknote-218" name="linknoteref-218" + id="linknoteref-218">218</a> Soldan, have you lately heard + The overthrow of mighty Bajazeth + About the confines of Bithynia? + The slavery wherewith he persecutes + The noble Turk and his great emperess? + + SOLDAN. I have, and sorrow for his bad success; + But, noble lord of great Arabia, + Be so persuaded that the Soldan is + No more dismay'd with tidings of his fall, + Than in the haven when the pilot stands, + And views a stranger's ship rent in the winds, + And shivered against a craggy rock: + Yet in compassion to his wretched state, + A sacred vow to heaven and him I make, + Confirming it with Ibis' holy name, <a href="#linknote-219" + name="linknoteref-219" id="linknoteref-219">219</a> + That Tamburlaine shall rue the day, the <a href="#linknote-220" + name="linknoteref-220" id="linknoteref-220">220</a> hour, + Wherein he wrought such ignominious wrong + Unto the hallow'd person of a prince, + Or kept the fair Zenocrate so long, + As concubine, I fear, to feed his lust. + + KING OF ARABIA. Let grief and fury hasten on revenge; + Let Tamburlaine for his offences feel + Such plagues as heaven and we can pour on him: + I long to break my spear upon his crest, + And prove the weight of his victorious arm; + For fame, I fear, hath been too prodigal + In sounding through the world his partial praise. + + SOLDAN. Capolin, hast thou survey'd our powers? + + CAPOLIN. Great emperors of Egypt and Arabia, + The number of your hosts united is, + A hundred and fifty thousand horse, + Two hundred thousand foot, brave men-at-arms, + Courageous and <a href="#linknote-221" name="linknoteref-221" + id="linknoteref-221">221</a> full of hardiness, + As frolic as the hunters in the chase + Of savage beasts amid the desert woods. + + KING OF ARABIA. My mind presageth fortunate success; + And, Tamburlaine, my spirit doth foresee + The utter ruin of thy men and thee. + + SOLDAN. Then rear your standards; let your sounding drums + Direct our soldiers to Damascus' walls.— + Now, Tamburlaine, the mighty Soldan comes, + And leads with him the great Arabian king, + To dim thy baseness and <a href="#linknote-222" name="linknoteref-222" + id="linknoteref-222">222</a> obscurity, + Famous for nothing but for theft and spoil; + To raze and scatter thy inglorious crew + Of Scythians and slavish Persians. + + [Exeunt.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0022" id="link2H_4_0022"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE IV. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + A banquet set out; and to it come TAMBURLAINE all in + scarlet, ZENOCRATE, THERIDAMAS, TECHELLES, USUMCASANE, + BAJAZETH drawn in his cage, ZABINA, and others. + + TAMBURLAINE. Now hang our bloody colours by Damascus, + Reflexing hues of blood upon their heads, + While they walk quivering on their city-walls, + Half-dead for fear before they feel my wrath. + Then let us freely banquet, and carouse + Full bowls of wine unto the god of war, + That means to fill your helmets full of gold, + And make Damascus' spoils as rich to you + As was to Jason Colchos' golden fleece.— + And now, Bajazeth, hast thou any stomach? + + BAJAZETH. Ay, such a stomach, cruel Tamburlaine, as I could + willingly feed upon thy blood-raw heart. + + TAMBURLAINE. Nay, thine own is easier to come by: pluck out + that; and 'twill serve thee and thy wife.—Well, Zenocrate, + Techelles, and the rest, fall to your victuals. + + BAJAZETH. Fall to, and never may your meat digest!— + Ye Furies, that can mask <a href="#linknote-223" name="linknoteref-223" + id="linknoteref-223">223</a> invisible, + Dive to the bottom of Avernus' pool, + And in your hands bring hellish poison up, + And squeeze it in the cup of Tamburlaine! + Or, winged snakes of Lerna, cast your stings, + And leave your venoms in this tyrant's dish? + + ZABINA. And may this banquet prove as ominous + As Progne's to th' adulterous Thracian king + That fed upon the substance of his child! + + ZENOCRATE. My lord, <a href="#linknote-224" name="linknoteref-224" + id="linknoteref-224">224</a> how can you suffer these + Outrageous curses by these slaves of yours? + + TAMBURLAINE. To let them see, divine Zenocrate, + I glory in the curses of my foes, + Having the power from the empyreal heaven + To turn them all upon their proper heads. + + TECHELLES. I pray you, give them leave, madam; this speech + is a goodly refreshing for them. <a href="#linknote-225" + name="linknoteref-225" id="linknoteref-225">225</a> + + THERIDAMAS. But, if his highness would let them be fed, + it would do them more good. + + TAMBURLAINE. Sirrah, why fall you not to? are you so daintily + brought up, you cannot eat your own flesh? + + BAJAZETH. First, legions of devils shall tear thee in pieces. + + USUMCASANE. Villain, knowest thou to whom thou speakest? + + TAMBURLAINE. O, let him alone.—Here; <a href="#linknote-226" + name="linknoteref-226" id="linknoteref-226">226</a> eat, sir; take it + from <a href="#linknote-227" name="linknoteref-227" id="linknoteref-227">227</a> my sword's point, or I'll thrust it to thy heart. + + [BAJAZETH takes the food, and stamps upon it.] + + THERIDAMAS. He stamps it under his feet, my lord. + + TAMBURLAINE. Take it up, villain, and eat it; or I will make thee + slice <a href="#linknote-228" name="linknoteref-228" id="linknoteref-228">228</a> the brawns of thy arms into carbonadoes and eat them. + + USUMCASANE. Nay, 'twere better he killed his wife, and then she + shall be sure not to be starved, and he be provided for a month's + victual beforehand. + + TAMBURLAINE. Here is my dagger: despatch her while she is fat; + for, if she live but a while longer, she will fall <a href="#linknote-229" + name="linknoteref-229" id="linknoteref-229">229</a> into a + consumption with fretting, and then she will not be worth the + eating. + + THERIDAMAS. Dost thou think that Mahomet will suffer this? + + TECHELLES. 'Tis like he will, when he cannot let <a href="#linknote-230" + name="linknoteref-230" id="linknoteref-230">230</a> it. + + TAMBURLAINE. Go to; fall to your meat. What, not a bit!—Belike + he hath not been watered to-day: give him some drink. + + [They give BAJAZETH water to drink, and he flings it on + the ground.] + + Fast, and welcome, sir, while <a href="#linknote-231" name="linknoteref-231" + id="linknoteref-231">231</a> hunger make you eat.—How now, + Zenocrate! doth not the Turk and his wife make a goodly show at a + banquet? + + ZENOCRATE. Yes, my lord. + + THERIDAMAS. + Methinks 'tis a great deal better than a consort <a href="#linknote-232" + name="linknoteref-232" id="linknoteref-232">232</a> of music. + + TAMBURLAINE. Yet music would do well to cheer up Zenocrate. + Pray thee, tell why art thou so sad? if thou wilt have a song, + the Turk shall strain his voice: but why is it? + + ZENOCRATE. My lord, to see my father's town besieg'd, + The country wasted where myself was born, + How can it but afflict my very soul? + If any love remain in you, my lord, + Or if my love unto your majesty + May merit favour at your highness' hands, + Then raise your siege from fair Damascus' walls, + And with my father take a friendly truce. + + TAMBURLAINE. Zenocrate, were Egypt Jove's own land, + Yet would I with my sword make Jove to stoop. + I will confute those blind geographers + That make a triple region in the world, + Excluding regions which I mean to trace, + And with this pen <a href="#linknote-233" name="linknoteref-233" + id="linknoteref-233">233</a> reduce them to a map, + Calling the provinces, cities, and towns, + After my name and thine, Zenocrate: + Here at Damascus will I make the point + That shall begin the perpendicular: + And wouldst thou have me buy thy father's love + With such a loss? tell me, Zenocrate. + + ZENOCRATE. Honour still wait on happy Tamburlaine! + Yet give me leave to plead for him, my lord. + + TAMBURLAINE. Content thyself: his person shall be safe, + And all the friends of fair Zenocrate, + If with their lives they will be pleas'd to yield, + Or may be forc'd to make me emperor; + For Egypt and Arabia must be mine.— + Feed, you slave; thou mayst think thyself happy to be fed from + my trencher. + + BAJAZETH. My empty stomach, full of idle heat, + Draws bloody humours from my feeble parts, + Preserving life by hastening <a href="#linknote-234" name="linknoteref-234" + id="linknoteref-234">234</a> cruel death. + My veins are pale; my sinews hard and dry; + My joints benumb'd; unless I eat, I die. + + ZABINA. Eat, Bajazeth; let us live in spite of them, looking + some happy power will pity and enlarge us. + + TAMBURLAINE. Here, Turk; wilt thou have a clean trencher? + + BAJAZETH. Ay, tyrant, and more meat. + + TAMBURLAINE. Soft, sir! you must be dieted; too much eating + will make you surfeit. + + THERIDAMAS. So it would, my lord, 'specially <a href="#linknote-235" + name="linknoteref-235" id="linknoteref-235">235</a> having so small + a walk and so little exercise. + + [A second course is brought in of crowns.] + + TAMBURLAINE. Theridamas, Techelles, and Casane, here are the + cates you desire to finger, are they not? + + THERIDAMAS. Ay, my lord: but none save kings must feed with + these. + + TECHELLES. 'Tis enough for us to see them, and for Tamburlaine + only to enjoy them. + + TAMBURLAINE. Well; here is now to the Soldan of Egypt, the King + of Arabia, and the Governor of Damascus. Now, take these three + crowns, and pledge me, my contributory kings. I crown you here, + Theridamas, king of Argier; Techelles, king of Fez; and + Usumcasane, king of Morocco. <a href="#linknote-236" name="linknoteref-236" + id="linknoteref-236">236</a>—How say you to this, Turk? these are + not your contributory kings. + + BAJAZETH. Nor shall they long be thine, I warrant them. + + TAMBURLAINE. Kings of Argier, Morocco, and of Fez, + You that have march'd with happy Tamburlaine + As far as from the frozen plage <a href="#linknote-237" + name="linknoteref-237" id="linknoteref-237">237</a> of heaven + Unto the watery Morning's ruddy bower, + And thence by land unto the torrid zone, + Deserve these titles I endow you with + By valour <a href="#linknote-238" name="linknoteref-238" + id="linknoteref-238">238</a> and by magnanimity. + Your births shall be no blemish to your fame; + For virtue is the fount whence honour springs, + And they are worthy she investeth kings. + + THERIDAMAS. And, since your highness hath so well vouchsaf'd, + If we deserve them not with higher meeds + Than erst our states and actions have retain'd, + Take them away again, <a href="#linknote-239" name="linknoteref-239" + id="linknoteref-239">239</a> and make us slaves. + + TAMBURLAINE. Well said, Theridamas: when holy Fates + Shall stablish me in strong Aegyptia, + We mean to travel to th' antarctic pole, + Conquering the people underneath our feet, + And be renowm'd <a href="#linknote-240" name="linknoteref-240" + id="linknoteref-240">240</a> as never emperors were.— + Zenocrate, I will not crown thee yet, + Until with greater honours I be grac'd. + + [Exeunt.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0023" id="link2H_4_0023"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + ACT V. + </h2> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0024" id="link2H_4_0024"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SCENE I. + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Enter the GOVERNOR OF DAMASCUS <a href="#linknote-241" + name="linknoteref-241" id="linknoteref-241">241</a> with three or four + CITIZENS, and four VIRGINS with branches of laurel in + their hands. + + GOVERNOR. Still doth this man, or rather god of war, + Batter our walls and beat our turrets down; + And to resist with longer stubbornness, + Or hope of rescue from the Soldan's power, + Were but to bring our wilful overthrow, + And make us desperate of our threaten'd lives. + We see his tents have now been altered + With terrors to the last and cruel'st hue; + His coal-black colours, every where advanc'd, + Threaten our city with a general spoil; + And, if we should with common rites of arms + Offer our safeties to his clemency, + I fear the custom proper to his sword, + Which he observes as parcel of his fame, + Intending so to terrify the world, + By any innovation or remorse <a href="#linknote-242" name="linknoteref-242" + id="linknoteref-242">242</a> + Will never be dispens'd with till our deaths. + Therefore, for these our harmless virgins' sakes, <a href="#linknote-243" + name="linknoteref-243" id="linknoteref-243">243</a> + Whose honours and whose lives rely on him, + Let us have hope that their unspotted prayers, + Their blubber'd <a href="#linknote-244" name="linknoteref-244" + id="linknoteref-244">244</a> cheeks, and hearty humble moans, + Will melt his fury into some remorse, + And use us like a loving conqueror. <a href="#linknote-245" + name="linknoteref-245" id="linknoteref-245">245</a> + + FIRST VIRGIN. If humble suite or imprecations + (Utter'd with tears of wretchedness and blood + Shed from the heads and hearts of all our sex, + Some made your wives, and some your children,) + Might have entreated your obdurate breasts + To entertain some care <a href="#linknote-246" name="linknoteref-246" + id="linknoteref-246">246</a> of our securities + Whiles only danger beat upon our walls, + These more than dangerous warrants of our death + Had never been erected as they be, + Nor you depend on such weak helps <a href="#linknote-247" + name="linknoteref-247" id="linknoteref-247">247</a> as we. + + GOVERNOR. Well, lovely virgins, think our country's care, + Our love of honour, loath to be enthrall'd + To foreign powers and rough imperious yokes, + Would not with too much cowardice or <a href="#linknote-248" + name="linknoteref-248" id="linknoteref-248">248</a> fear, + Before all hope of rescue were denied, + Submit yourselves and us to servitude. + Therefore, in that your safeties and our own, + Your honours, liberties, and lives were weigh'd + In equal care and balance with our own, + Endure as we the malice of our stars, + The wrath of Tamburlaine and power <a href="#linknote-249" + name="linknoteref-249" id="linknoteref-249">249</a> of wars; + Or be the means the overweighing heavens + Have kept to qualify these hot extremes, + And bring us pardon in your cheerful looks. + + SECOND VIRGIN. Then here, before the Majesty of Heaven + And holy patrons of Aegyptia, + With knees and hearts submissive we entreat + Grace to our words and pity to our looks, + That this device may prove propitious, + And through the eyes and ears of Tamburlaine + Convey events of mercy to his heart; + Grant that these signs of victory we yield + May bind the temples of his conquering head, + To hide the folded furrows of his brows, + And shadow his displeased countenance + With happy looks of ruth and lenity. + Leave us, my lord, and loving countrymen: + What simple virgins may persuade, we will. + + GOVERNOR. Farewell, sweet virgins, on whose safe return + Depends our city, liberty, and lives. + + [Exeunt all except the VIRGINS.] + + Enter TAMBURLAINE, all in black and very melancholy, + TECHELLES, THERIDAMAS, USUMCASANE, with others. + + TAMBURLAINE. What, are the turtles fray'd out of their nests? + Alas, poor fools, must you be first shall feel + The sworn destruction of Damascus? + They knew <a href="#linknote-250" name="linknoteref-250" + id="linknoteref-250">250</a> my custom; could they not as well + Have sent ye out when first my milk-white flags, + Through which sweet Mercy threw her gentle beams, + Reflexed <a href="#linknote-251" name="linknoteref-251" id="linknoteref-251">251</a> them on their <a + href="#linknote-252" name="linknoteref-252" id="linknoteref-252">252</a> disdainful eyes, + As <a href="#linknote-253" name="linknoteref-253" id="linknoteref-253">253</a> now when fury and incensed hate + Flings slaughtering terror from my coal-black tents, <a href="#linknote-254" + name="linknoteref-254" id="linknoteref-254">254</a> + And tells for truth submission <a href="#linknote-255" + name="linknoteref-255" id="linknoteref-255">255</a> comes too late? + + FIRST VIRGIN. Most happy king and emperor of the earth, + Image of honour and nobility, + For whom the powers divine have made the world, + And on whose throne the holy Graces sit; + In whose sweet person is compris'd the sum + Of Nature's skill and heavenly majesty; + Pity our plights! O, pity poor Damascus! + Pity old age, within whose silver hairs + Honour and reverence evermore have reign'd! + Pity the marriage-bed, where many a lord, + In prime and glory of his loving joy, + Embraceth now with tears of ruth and <a href="#linknote-256" + name="linknoteref-256" id="linknoteref-256">256</a> blood + The jealous body of his fearful wife, + Whose cheeks and hearts, so punish'd with conceit, <a href="#linknote-257" + name="linknoteref-257" id="linknoteref-257">257</a> + To think thy puissant never-stayed arm + Will part their bodies, and prevent their souls + From heavens of comfort yet their age might bear, + Now wax all pale and wither'd to the death, + As well for grief our ruthless governor + Hath <a href="#linknote-258" name="linknoteref-258" id="linknoteref-258">258</a> thus refus'd the mercy of thy hand, + (Whose sceptre angels kiss and Furies dread,) + As for their liberties, their loves, or lives! + O, then, for these, and such as we ourselves, + For us, for infants, and for all our bloods, + That never nourish'd <a href="#linknote-259" name="linknoteref-259" + id="linknoteref-259">259</a> thought against thy rule, + Pity, O, pity, sacred emperor, + The prostrate service of this wretched town; + And take in sign thereof this gilded wreath, + Whereto each man of rule hath given his hand, + And wish'd, <a href="#linknote-260" name="linknoteref-260" + id="linknoteref-260">260</a> as worthy subjects, happy means + To be investers of thy royal brows + Even with the true Egyptian diadem! + + TAMBURLAINE. Virgins, in vain you labour to prevent + That which mine honour swears shall be perform'd. + Behold my sword; what see you at the point? + + FIRST VIRGIN. Nothing but fear and fatal steel, my lord. + + TAMBURLAINE. Your fearful minds are thick and misty, then, + For there sits Death; there sits imperious <a href="#linknote-261" + name="linknoteref-261" id="linknoteref-261">261</a> Death, + Keeping his circuit by the slicing edge. + But I am pleas'd you shall not see him there; + He now is seated on my horsemen's spears, + And on their points his fleshless body feeds.— + Techelles, straight go charge a few of them + To charge these dames, and shew my servant Death, + Sitting in scarlet on their armed spears. + + VIRGINS. O, pity us! + + TAMBURLAINE. Away with them, I say, and shew them Death! + [The VIRGINS are taken out by TECHELLES and others.] + I will not spare these proud Egyptians, + Nor change my martial observations + For all the wealth of Gihon's golden waves, + Or for the love of Venus, would she leave + The angry god of arms and lie with me. + They have refus'd the offer of their lives, + And know my customs are as peremptory + As wrathful planets, death, or destiny. + + Re-enter TECHELLES. + + What, have your horsemen shown the virgins Death? + + TECHELLES. They have, my lord, and on Damascus' walls + Have hoisted up their slaughter'd carcasses. + + TAMBURLAINE. A sight as baneful to their souls, I think, + As are Thessalian drugs or mithridate: + But go, my lords, put the rest to the sword. + + [Exeunt all except TAMBURLAINE.] + + Ah, fair Zenocrate!—divine Zenocrate! + Fair is too foul an epithet for thee,— + That in thy passion <a href="#linknote-262" name="linknoteref-262" + id="linknoteref-262">262</a> for thy country's love, + And fear to see thy kingly father's harm, + With hair dishevell'd wip'st thy watery cheeks; + And, like to Flora in her morning's pride, + Shaking her silver tresses in the air, + Rain'st on the earth resolved <a href="#linknote-263" name="linknoteref-263" + id="linknoteref-263">263</a> pearl in showers, + And sprinklest sapphires on thy shining face, + Where Beauty, mother to the Muses, sits, + And comments volumes with her ivory pen, + Taking instructions from thy flowing eyes; + Eyes, when that Ebena steps to heaven, <a href="#linknote-264" + name="linknoteref-264" id="linknoteref-264">264</a> + In silence of thy solemn evening's walk, + Making the mantle of the richest night, + The moon, the planets, and the meteors, light; + There angels in their crystal armours fight <a href="#linknote-265" + name="linknoteref-265" id="linknoteref-265">265</a> + A doubtful battle with my tempted thoughts + For Egypt's freedom and the Soldan's life, + His life that so consumes Zenocrate; + Whose sorrows lay more siege unto my soul + Than all my army to Damascus' walls; + And neither Persia's <a href="#linknote-266" name="linknoteref-266" + id="linknoteref-266">266</a> sovereign nor the Turk + Troubled my senses with conceit of foil + So much by much as doth Zenocrate. + What is beauty, saith my sufferings, then? + If all the pens that ever poets held + Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, + And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, + Their minds, and muses on admired themes; + If all the heavenly quintessence they still <a href="#linknote-267" + name="linknoteref-267" id="linknoteref-267">267</a> + From their immortal flowers of poesy, + Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive + The highest reaches of a human wit; + If these had made one poem's period, + And all combin'd in beauty's worthiness, + Yet should there hover in their restless heads + One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, + Which into words no virtue can digest. + But how unseemly is it for my sex, + My discipline of arms and chivalry, + My nature, and the terror of my name, + To harbour thoughts effeminate and faint! + Save only that in beauty's just applause, + With whose instinct the soul of man is touch'd; + And every warrior that is rapt with love + Of fame, of valour, and of victory, + Must needs have beauty beat on his conceits: + I thus conceiving, <a href="#linknote-268" name="linknoteref-268" + id="linknoteref-268">268</a> and subduing both, + That which hath stoop'd the chiefest of the gods, + Even from the fiery-spangled veil of heaven, + To feel the lovely warmth of shepherds' flames, + And mask in cottages of strowed reeds, + Shall give the world to note, for all my birth, + That virtue solely is the sum of glory, + And fashions men with true nobility.— + Who's within there? + + Enter ATTENDANTS. + + Hath Bajazeth been fed to-day? + + ATTEND. <a href="#linknote-269" name="linknoteref-269" id="linknoteref-269">269</a> Ay, my lord. + + TAMBURLAINE. Bring him forth; and let us know if the town be + ransacked. + + [Exeunt ATTENDANTS.] + + Enter TECHELLES, THERIDAMAS, USUMCASANE, and others. + + TECHELLES. The town is ours, my lord, and fresh supply + Of conquest and of spoil is offer'd us. + + TAMBURLAINE. That's well, Techelles. What's the news? + + TECHELLES. The Soldan and the Arabian king together + March on us with <a href="#linknote-270" name="linknoteref-270" + id="linknoteref-270">270</a> such eager violence + As if there were no way but one with us. <a href="#linknote-271" + name="linknoteref-271" id="linknoteref-271">271</a> + + TAMBURLAINE. No more there is not, I warrant thee, Techelles. + + ATTENDANTS bring in BAJAZETH in his cage, followed by + ZABINA. + Exeunt ATTENDANTS. + + THERIDAMAS. We know the victory is ours, my lord; + But let us save the reverend Soldan's life + For fair Zenocrate that so laments his state. + + TAMBURLAINE. That will we chiefly see unto, Theridamas, + For sweet Zenocrate, whose worthiness + Deserves a conquest over every heart.— + And now, my footstool, if I lose the field, + You hope of liberty and restitution?— + Here let him stay, my masters, from the tents, + Till we have made us ready for the field.— + Pray for us, Bajazeth; we are going. + [Exeunt all except BAJAZETH and ZABINA.] + + BAJAZETH. Go, never to return with victory! + Millions of men encompass thee about, + And gore thy body with as many wounds! + Sharp forked arrows light upon thy horse! + Furies from the black Cocytus' lake, + Break up the earth, and with their fire-brands + Enforce thee run upon the baneful pikes! + Vollies of shot pierce through thy charmed skin, + And every bullet dipt in poison'd drugs! + Or roaring cannons sever all thy joints, + Making thee mount as high as eagles soar! + + ZABINA. Let all the swords and lances in the field + Stick in his breast as in their proper rooms! + At every pore <a href="#linknote-272" name="linknoteref-272" + id="linknoteref-272">272</a> let blood come dropping forth, + That lingering pains may massacre his heart, + And madness send his damned soul to hell! + + BAJAZETH. Ah, fair Zabina! we may curse his power, + The heavens may frown, the earth for anger quake; + But such a star hath influence in <a href="#linknote-273" + name="linknoteref-273" id="linknoteref-273">273</a> his sword + As rules the skies and countermands the gods + More than Cimmerian Styx or Destiny: + And then shall we in this detested guise, + With shame, with hunger, and with horror stay, <a href="#linknote-274" + name="linknoteref-274" id="linknoteref-274">274</a> + Griping our bowels with retorqued <a href="#linknote-275" + name="linknoteref-275" id="linknoteref-275">275</a> thoughts, + And have no hope to end our ecstasies. + + ZABINA. Then is there left no Mahomet, no God, + No fiend, no fortune, nor no hope of end + To our infamous, monstrous slaveries. + Gape, earth, and let the fiends infernal view + A <a href="#linknote-276" name="linknoteref-276" id="linknoteref-276">276</a> hell as hopeless and as full of fear + As are the blasted banks of Erebus, + Where shaking ghosts with ever-howling groans + Hover about the ugly ferryman, + To get a passage to Elysium! <a href="#linknote-277" name="linknoteref-277" + id="linknoteref-277">277</a> + Why should we live?—O, wretches, beggars, slaves!— + Why live we, Bajazeth, and build up nests + So high within the region of the air, + By living long in this oppression, + That all the world will see and laugh to scorn + The former triumphs of our mightiness + In this obscure infernal servitude? + + BAJAZETH. O life, more loathsome to my vexed thoughts <a + href="#linknote-278" name="linknoteref-278" id="linknoteref-278">278</a> + Than noisome parbreak <a href="#linknote-279" name="linknoteref-279" + id="linknoteref-279">279</a> of the Stygian snakes, + Which fills the nooks of hell with standing air, + Infecting all the ghosts with cureless griefs! + O dreary engines of my loathed sight, + That see my crown, my honour, and my name + Thrust under yoke and thraldom of a thief, + Why feed ye still on day's accursed beams, + And sink not quite into my tortur'd soul? + You see my wife, my queen, and emperess, + Brought up and propped by the hand of Fame, + Queen of fifteen contributory queens, + Now thrown to rooms of black abjection, <a href="#linknote-280" + name="linknoteref-280" id="linknoteref-280">280</a> + Smeared with blots of basest drudgery, + And villainess <a href="#linknote-281" name="linknoteref-281" + id="linknoteref-281">281</a> to shame, disdain, and misery. + Accursed Bajazeth, whose words of ruth, <a href="#linknote-282" + name="linknoteref-282" id="linknoteref-282">282</a> + That would with pity cheer Zabina's heart, + And make our souls resolve <a href="#linknote-283" name="linknoteref-283" + id="linknoteref-283">283</a> in ceaseless tears, + Sharp hunger bites upon and gripes the root + From whence the issues of my thoughts do break! + O poor Zabina! O my queen, my queen! + Fetch me some water for my burning breast, + To cool and comfort me with longer date, + That, in the shorten'd sequel of my life, + I may pour forth my soul into thine arms + With words of love, whose moaning intercourse + Hath hitherto been stay'd with wrath and hate + Of our expressless bann'd <a href="#linknote-284" name="linknoteref-284" + id="linknoteref-284">284</a> inflictions. + + ZABINA. Sweet Bajazeth, I will prolong thy life + As long as any blood or spark of breath + Can quench or cool the torments of my grief. + + [Exit.] + + BAJAZETH. Now, Bajazeth, abridge thy baneful days, + And beat the <a href="#linknote-285" name="linknoteref-285" + id="linknoteref-285">285</a> brains out of thy conquer'd head, + Since other means are all forbidden me, + That may be ministers of my decay. + O highest lamp of ever-living <a href="#linknote-286" name="linknoteref-286" + id="linknoteref-286">286</a> Jove, + Accursed day, infected with my griefs, + Hide now thy stained face in endless night, + And shut the windows of the lightsome heavens! + Let ugly Darkness with her rusty coach, + Engirt with tempests, wrapt in pitchy clouds, + Smother the earth with never-fading mists, + And let her horses from their nostrils breathe + Rebellious winds and dreadful thunder-claps, + That in this terror Tamburlaine may live, + And my pin'd soul, resolv'd in liquid air, + May still excruciate his tormented thoughts! + Then let the stony dart of senseless cold + Pierce through the centre of my wither'd heart, + And make a passage for my loathed life! + + [He brains himself against the cage.] + + Re-enter ZABINA. + + ZABINA. What do mine eyes behold? my husband dead! + His skull all riven in twain! his brains dash'd out, + The brains of Bajazeth, my lord and sovereign! + O Bajazeth, my husband and my lord! + O Bajazeth! O Turk! O emperor! + Give him his liquor? not I. Bring milk and fire, and my blood + I bring him again.—Tear me in pieces—give <a + href="#linknote-287" name="linknoteref-287" id="linknoteref-287">287</a> me the sword + with a ball of wild-fire upon it.—Down with him! down with + him!—Go to my child; away, away, away! ah, save that infant! + save him, save him!—I, even I, speak to her. <a href="#linknote-288" + name="linknoteref-288" id="linknoteref-288">288</a>—The sun was + down—streamers white, red, black—Here, here, here!—Fling the + meat in his face—Tamburlaine, Tamburlaine!—Let the soldiers be + buried.—Hell, death, Tamburlaine, <a href="#linknote-289" + name="linknoteref-289" id="linknoteref-289">289</a> hell!—Make ready my + coach, <a href="#linknote-290" name="linknoteref-290" id="linknoteref-290">290</a> my chair, my jewels.—I come, I come, I come! <a + href="#linknote-291" name="linknoteref-291" id="linknoteref-291">291</a> + + [She runs against the cage, and brains herself.] + + Enter ZENOCRATE with ANIPPE. + + ZENOCRATE. Wretched Zenocrate! that liv'st to see + Damascus' walls dy'd with Egyptians' <a href="#linknote-292" + name="linknoteref-292" id="linknoteref-292">292</a> blood, + Thy father's subjects and thy countrymen; + The <a href="#linknote-293" name="linknoteref-293" id="linknoteref-293">293</a> streets strow'd with dissever'd joints of men, + And wounded bodies gasping yet for life; + But most accurs'd, to see the sun-bright troop + Of heavenly virgins and unspotted maids + (Whose looks might make the angry god of arms + To break his sword and mildly treat of love) + On horsemen's lances to be hoisted up, + And guiltlessly endure a cruel death; + For every fell and stout Tartarian steed, + That stamp'd on others with their thundering hoofs, + When all their riders charg'd their quivering spears, + Began to check the ground and rein themselves, + Gazing upon the beauty of their looks. + Ah, Tamburlaine, wert thou the cause of this, + That term'st Zenocrate thy dearest love? + Whose lives were dearer to Zenocrate + Than her own life, or aught save thine own love. + But see, another bloody spectacle! + Ah, wretched eyes, the enemies of my heart, + How are ye glutted with these grievous objects, + And tell my soul more tales of bleeding ruth!— + See, see, Anippe, if they breathe or no. + + ANIPPE. No breath, nor sense, nor motion, in them both: + Ah, madam, this their slavery hath enforc'd, + And ruthless cruelty of Tamburlaine! + + ZENOCRATE. Earth, cast up fountains from thy <a href="#linknote-294" + name="linknoteref-294" id="linknoteref-294">294</a> entrails, + And wet thy cheeks for their untimely deaths; + Shake with their weight in sign of fear and grief! + Blush, heaven, that gave them honour at their birth, + And let them die a death so barbarous! + Those that are proud of fickle empery + And place their chiefest good in earthly pomp, + Behold the Turk and his great emperess! + Ah, Tamburlaine my love, sweet Tamburlaine, + That fight'st for sceptres and for slippery crowns, + Behold the Turk and his great emperess! + Thou that, in conduct of thy happy stars, + Sleep'st every night with conquest on thy brows, + And yet wouldst shun the wavering turns of war, <a href="#linknote-295" + name="linknoteref-295" id="linknoteref-295">295</a> + In fear and feeling of the like distress + Behold the Turk and his great emperess! + Ah, mighty Jove and holy Mahomet, + Pardon my love! O, pardon his contempt + Of earthly fortune and respect of pity; + And let not conquest, ruthlessly pursu'd, + Be equally against his life incens'd + In this great Turk and hapless emperess! + And pardon me that was not mov'd with ruth + To see them live so long in misery!— + Ah, what may chance to thee, Zenocrate? + + ANIPPE. Madam, content yourself, and be resolv'd + Your love hath Fortune so at his command, + That she shall stay, and turn her wheel no more, + As long as life maintains his mighty arm + That fights for honour to adorn your head. + + Enter PHILEMUS. + + ZENOCRATE. What other heavy news now brings Philemus? + + PHILEMUS. Madam, your father, and the Arabian king, + The first affecter of your excellence, + Come <a href="#linknote-296" name="linknoteref-296" id="linknoteref-296">296</a> now, as Turnus 'gainst Aeneas did, + Armed <a href="#linknote-297" name="linknoteref-297" id="linknoteref-297">297</a> with lance into the Aegyptian fields, + Ready for battle 'gainst my lord the king. + + ZENOCRATE. Now shame and duty, love and fear present + A thousand sorrows to my martyr'd soul. + Whom should I wish the fatal victory, + When my poor pleasures are divided thus, + And rack'd by duty from my cursed heart? + My father and my first-betrothed love + Must fight against my life and present love; + Wherein the change I use condemns my faith, + And makes my deeds infamous through the world: + But, as the gods, to end the Trojans' toil, + Prevented Turnus of Lavinia, + And fatally enrich'd Aeneas' love, + So, for a final <a href="#linknote-298" name="linknoteref-298" + id="linknoteref-298">298</a> issue to my griefs, + To pacify my country and my love, + Must Tamburlaine by their resistless powers, + With virtue of a gentle victory, + Conclude a league of honour to my hope; + Then, as the powers divine have pre-ordain'd, + With happy safety of my father's life + Send like defence of fair Arabia + + [They sound to the battle within; and TAMBURLAINE enjoys + the victory: after which, the KING OF ARABIA <a href="#linknote-299" + name="linknoteref-299" id="linknoteref-299">299</a> enters + wounded.] + + KING OF ARABIA. What cursed power guides the murdering hands + Of this infamous tyrant's soldiers, + That no escape may save their enemies, + Nor fortune keep themselves from victory? + Lie down, Arabia, wounded to the death, + And let Zenocrate's fair eyes behold, + That, as for her thou bear'st these wretched arms, + Even so for her thou diest in these arms, + Leaving thy <a href="#linknote-300" name="linknoteref-300" + id="linknoteref-300">300</a> blood for witness of thy love. + + ZENOCRATE. Too dear a witness for such love, my lord! + Behold Zenocrate, the cursed object + Whose fortunes never mastered her griefs; + Behold her wounded in conceit <a href="#linknote-301" name="linknoteref-301" + id="linknoteref-301">301</a> for thee, + As much as thy fair body is for me! + + KING OF ARABIA. Then shall I die with full contented heart, + Having beheld divine Zenocrate, + Whose sight with joy would take away my life + As now it bringeth sweetness to my wound, + If I had not been wounded as I am. + Ah, that the deadly pangs I suffer now + Would lend an hour's licence to my tongue, + To make discourse of some sweet accidents + Have chanc'd thy merits in this worthless bondage, + And that I might be privy to the state + Of thy deserv'd contentment and thy love! + But, making now a virtue of thy sight, + To drive all sorrow from my fainting soul, + Since death denies me further cause of joy, + Depriv'd of care, my heart with comfort dies, + Since thy desired hand shall close mine eyes. + + [Dies.] + + Re-enter TAMBURLAINE, leading the SOLDAN; TECHELLES, + THERIDAMAS, USUMCASANE, with others. + + TAMBURLAINE. Come, happy father of Zenocrate, + A title higher than thy Soldan's name. + Though my right hand have <a href="#linknote-302" name="linknoteref-302" + id="linknoteref-302">302</a> thus enthralled thee, + Thy princely daughter here shall set thee free; + She that hath calm'd the fury of my sword, + Which had ere this been bath'd in streams of blood + As vast and deep as Euphrates <a href="#linknote-303" name="linknoteref-303" + id="linknoteref-303">303</a> or Nile. + + ZENOCRATE. O sight thrice-welcome to my joyful soul, + To see the king, my father, issue safe + From dangerous battle of my conquering love! + + SOLDAN. Well met, my only dear Zenocrate, + Though with the loss of Egypt and my crown! + + TAMBURLAINE. 'Twas I, my lord, that gat the victory; + And therefore grieve not at your overthrow, + Since I shall render all into your hands, + And add more strength to your dominions + Than ever yet confirm'd th' Egyptian crown. + The god of war resigns his room to me, + Meaning to make me general of the world: + Jove, viewing me in arms, looks pale and wan, + Fearing my power should <a href="#linknote-304" name="linknoteref-304" + id="linknoteref-304">304</a> pull him from his throne: + Where'er I come the Fatal Sisters sweat, <a href="#linknote-305" + name="linknoteref-305" id="linknoteref-305">305</a> + And grisly Death, by running to and fro, + To do their ceaseless homage to my sword: + And here in Afric, where it seldom rains, + Since I arriv'd with my triumphant host, + Have swelling clouds, drawn from wide-gaping <a href="#linknote-306" + name="linknoteref-306" id="linknoteref-306">306</a> wounds, + Been oft resolv'd <a href="#linknote-307" name="linknoteref-307" + id="linknoteref-307">307</a> in bloody purple showers, + A meteor that might terrify the earth, + And make it quake at every drop it drinks: + Millions <a href="#linknote-308" name="linknoteref-308" id="linknoteref-308">308</a> of souls sit on the banks of Styx, + Waiting the back-return of Charon's boat; + Hell and Elysium <a href="#linknote-309" name="linknoteref-309" + id="linknoteref-309">309</a> swarm with ghosts of men + That I have sent from sundry foughten fields + To spread my fame through hell and up to heaven: + And see, my lord, a sight of strange import,— + Emperors and kings lie breathless at my feet; + The Turk and his great empress, as it seems, + Left to themselves while we were at the fight, + Have desperately despatch'd their slavish lives: + With them Arabia, too, hath left his life: + All sights of power to grace my victory; + And such are objects fit for Tamburlaine, + Wherein, as in a mirror, may be seen + His honour, that consists in shedding blood + When men presume to manage arms with him. + + SOLDAN. Mighty hath God and Mahomet made thy hand, + Renowmed <a href="#linknote-310" name="linknoteref-310" id="linknoteref-310">310</a> Tamburlaine, to whom all kings + Of force must yield their crowns and emperies; + And I am pleas'd with this my overthrow, + If, as beseems a person of thy state, + Thou hast with honour us'd Zenocrate. + + TAMBURLAINE. Her state and person want no pomp, you see; + And for all blot of foul inchastity, + I record <a href="#linknote-311" name="linknoteref-311" id="linknoteref-311">311</a> heaven, her heavenly self is clear: + Then let me find no further time <a href="#linknote-312" + name="linknoteref-312" id="linknoteref-312">312</a> to grace + Her princely temples with the Persian crown; + But here these kings that on my fortunes wait, + And have been crown'd for proved worthiness + Even by this hand that shall establish them, + Shall now, adjoining all their hands with mine, + Invest her here the <a href="#linknote-313" name="linknoteref-313" + id="linknoteref-313">313</a> Queen of Persia + What saith the noble Soldan, and Zenocrate? + + SOLDAN. I yield with thanks and protestations + Of endless honour to thee for her love. + + TAMBURLAINE. Then doubt I not <a href="#linknote-314" name="linknoteref-314" + id="linknoteref-314">314</a> but fair Zenocrate + Will soon consent to satisfy us both. + + ZENOCRATE. Else <a href="#linknote-315" name="linknoteref-315" + id="linknoteref-315">315</a> should I much forget myself, my lord. + + THERIDAMAS. Then let us set the crown upon her head, + That long hath linger'd for so high a seat. + + TECHELLES. My hand is ready to perform the deed; + For now her marriage-time shall work us rest. + + USUMCASANE. And here's the crown, my lord; help set it on. <a + href="#linknote-316" name="linknoteref-316" id="linknoteref-316">316</a> + + TAMBURLAINE. Then sit thou down, divine Zenocrate; + And here we crown thee Queen of Persia, + And all the kingdoms and dominions + That late the power of Tamburlaine subdu'd. + As Juno, when the giants were suppress'd, + That darted mountains at her brother Jove, + So looks my love, shadowing in her brows + Triumphs and trophies for my victories; + Or as Latona's daughter, bent to arms, + Adding more courage to my conquering mind. + To gratify the[e], sweet Zenocrate, + Egyptians, Moors, and men of Asia, + From Barbary unto the Western India, + Shall pay a yearly tribute to thy sire; + And from the bounds of Afric to the banks + Of Ganges shall his mighty arm extend.— + And now, my lords and loving followers, + That purchas'd kingdoms by your martial deeds, + Cast off your armour, put on scarlet robes, + Mount up your royal places of estate, + Environed with troops of noblemen, + And there make laws to rule your provinces: + Hang up your weapons on Alcides' post[s]; + For Tamburlaine takes truce with all the world.— + Thy first-betrothed love, Arabia, + Shall we with honour, as beseems, <a href="#linknote-317" + name="linknoteref-317" id="linknoteref-317">317</a> entomb + With this great Turk and his fair emperess. + Then, after all these solemn exequies, + We will our rites <a href="#linknote-318" name="linknoteref-318" + id="linknoteref-318">318</a> of marriage solemnize. + + [Exeunt.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="link2H_FOOT" id="link2H_FOOT"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + FOOTNOTES: + </h2> + <p> + <a name="linknote-1" id="linknote-1"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 1 (<a href="#linknoteref-1">return</a>)<br /> [ To the Gentlemen-readers, + &c.] From the 8vo of 1592: in the 4tos this address is worded here and + there differently. I have not thought it necessary to mark the varioe + lectiones of the worthy printer's composition.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-2" id="linknote-2"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 2 (<a href="#linknoteref-2">return</a>)<br /> [ histories] i.e. dramas so + called,—plays founded on history.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-3" id="linknote-3"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 3 (<a href="#linknoteref-3">return</a>)<br /> [ fond] i.e. foolish.—Concerning + the omissions here alluded to, some remarks will be found in the ACCOUNT + OF MARLOWE AND HIS WRITINGS.] + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + The "Account of Marlowe and His Writings," is the + introduction to this book of 'The Works of Christopher + Marlowe.' That is, the book from which this play has been + transcribed. The following is from pages xvi and xvii of + that introduction. + + "This tragedy, which was entered in the Stationers' Books, + 14th August, 1590,[a] and printed during the same year, has + not come down to us in its original fulness; and probably we + have no cause to lament the curtailments which it suffered + from the publisher of the first edition. "I have + purposely," + he says, "omitted and left out some fond and frivolous + gestures, digressing, and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet + for the matter, which I thought might seem more tedious unto + the wise than any way else to be regarded, though haply they + have been of some vain-conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, + what time they were shewed upon the stage in their graced + deformities: nevertheless now to be mixtured in print with + such matter of worth, it would prove a great disgrace to so + honourable and stately a history."[b] By the words, "fond + and frivolous gestures," we are to understand those of the + "clown;" who very frequently figured, with more or less + prominence, even in the most serious dramas of the time. + The introduction of such buffooneries into tragedy[c] is + censured by Hall towards the conclusion of a passage which, + as it mentions "the Turkish Tamberlaine," would seem to be + partly levelled at Marlowe:[d] + + "One higher-pitch'd doth set his soaring thought + On crowned kings that Fortune hath low brought, + Or some vpreared high-aspiring swaine, + As it might be THE TURKISH TAMBERLAINE. + Then weeneth he his base drink-drowned spright + Rapt to the three-fold loft of heauen hight, + When he conceiues vpon his fained stage + The stalking steps of his greate personage, + Graced with huf-cap termes and thundring threats, + That his poore hearers' hayre quite vpright sets. + + * * * * * * * * * + + NOW, LEAST SUCH FRIGHTFULL SHOWES OF FORTUNE'S FALL + AND BLOUDY TYRANTS' RAGE SHOULD CHANCE APALL + THE DEAD-STROKE AUDIENCE, MIDST THE SILENT ROUT + COMES LEAPING IN A SELFE-MISFORMED LOUT, + AND LAUGHES, AND GRINS, AND FRAMES HIS MIMIK FACE, + AND IUSTLES STRAIGHT INTO THE PRINCE'S PLACE: + THEN DOTH THE THEATRE ECCHO ALL ALOUD + WITH GLADSOME NOYSE OF THAT APPLAUDING CROWD: + A GOODLY HOCH-POCH, WHEN VILE RUSSETTINGS + ARE MATCH['D] WITH MONARCHS AND WITH MIGHTIE KINGS!"[e] + + But Hall's taste was more refined and classical than that + of his age; and the success of TAMBURLAINE, in which the + celebrated Alleyn represented the hero,[f] was adequate to + the most sanguine expectations which its author could have + formed.] + + [a] "A ballad entituled the storye of Tamburlayne the + greate," &c. (founded, I suppose, on Marlowe's play) + was entered in the Stationers' Books, 5th Nov. 1594. + + [b] P. 4 of the present volume. + + [c] In Italy, at the commencement of the 18th century + (and probably much later), it was not unusual to + introduce "the Doctor," "Harlequin," "Pantalone," and + "Coviello," into deep tragedies. "I have seen," says + Addison, "a translation of THE CID acted at Bolonia, + which would never have taken, had they not found a + place in it for these buffoons." REMARKS ON SEVERAL + PARTS OF ITALY, &C. IN THE YEARS 1701, 1702, 1703, + p. 68, ed. 1745. + + [d] Perhaps I ought to add, that Marlowe was dead when + (in 1597) the satire, from which these lines are quoted, + was first given to the press. + + [e] Hall's VIRGID. Lib. I. Sat. iii., ed. 1602. + + [f] See Heywood's Prol. to our author's JEW OF MALTA, + p. 142 of the present volume.[See the Project + Gutenberg E-Text of 'The Jew of Malta.' "] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-4" id="linknote-4"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 4 (<a href="#linknoteref-4">return</a>)<br /> [ censures] i.e. judgments, + opinions.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-5" id="linknote-5"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 5 (<a href="#linknoteref-5">return</a>)<br /> [ Afric] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "Affrica."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-6" id="linknote-6"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 6 (<a href="#linknoteref-6">return</a>)<br /> [ their] Old eds. "his."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-7" id="linknote-7"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 7 (<a href="#linknoteref-7">return</a>)<br /> [ through] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "thorough."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-8" id="linknote-8"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 8 (<a href="#linknoteref-8">return</a>)<br /> [ incivil] i.e. barbarous.—So + the 8vo.—The 4to "vnciuill."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-9" id="linknote-9"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 9 (<a href="#linknoteref-9">return</a>)<br /> [ incontinent] i.e. + forthwith, immediately.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-10" id="linknote-10"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 10 (<a href="#linknoteref-10">return</a>)<br /> [ chiefest] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "chiefe."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-11" id="linknote-11"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 11 (<a href="#linknoteref-11">return</a>)<br /> [ rout] i.e. crew.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-12" id="linknote-12"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 12 (<a href="#linknoteref-12">return</a>)<br /> [ press] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "prease."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-13" id="linknote-13"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 13 (<a href="#linknoteref-13">return</a>)<br /> [ you] So the 8vo.—0mitted + in the 4to.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-14" id="linknote-14"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 14 (<a href="#linknoteref-14">return</a>)<br /> [ all] So the 4to.—0mitted + in the 8vo.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-15" id="linknote-15"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 15 (<a href="#linknoteref-15">return</a>)<br /> [ mated] i.e. confounded.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-16" id="linknote-16"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 16 (<a href="#linknoteref-16">return</a>)<br /> [ pass not] i.e. care not.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-17" id="linknote-17"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 17 (<a href="#linknoteref-17">return</a>)<br /> [ regiment] i.e. rule, + government.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-18" id="linknote-18"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 18 (<a href="#linknoteref-18">return</a>)<br /> [ resolve] i.e. dissolve.—So + the 8vo.—The 4to "dissolue."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-19" id="linknote-19"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 19 (<a href="#linknoteref-19">return</a>)<br /> [ ships] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "shippe."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-20" id="linknote-20"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 20 (<a href="#linknoteref-20">return</a>)<br /> [ Pass] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "Hast."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-21" id="linknote-21"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 21 (<a href="#linknoteref-21">return</a>)<br /> [ you] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "they."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-22" id="linknote-22"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 22 (<a href="#linknoteref-22">return</a>)<br /> [ Ceneus] Here both the old + eds. "Conerus."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-23" id="linknote-23"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 23 (<a href="#linknoteref-23">return</a>)<br /> [ states] i.e. noblemen, + persons of rank.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-24" id="linknote-24"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 24 (<a href="#linknoteref-24">return</a>)<br /> [ their] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "the."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-25" id="linknote-25"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 25 (<a href="#linknoteref-25">return</a>)<br /> [ and Persia] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "and OF Persia."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-26" id="linknote-26"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 26 (<a href="#linknoteref-26">return</a>)<br /> [ ever-raging] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "RIUER raging."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-27" id="linknote-27"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 27 (<a href="#linknoteref-27">return</a>)<br /> [ ALL] So the 4to.—Omitted + in the 8vo.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-28" id="linknote-28"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 28 (<a href="#linknoteref-28">return</a>)<br /> [ And Jove may, &c.] + i.e. And may Jove, &c. This collocation of words is sometimes found in + later writers: so in the Prologue to Fletcher's WOMAN'S PRIZE,—"WHICH + this may PROVE!"] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-29" id="linknote-29"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 29 (<a href="#linknoteref-29">return</a>)<br /> [ knew] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "knowe."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-30" id="linknote-30"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 30 (<a href="#linknoteref-30">return</a>)<br /> [ lords] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "Lord."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-31" id="linknote-31"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 31 (<a href="#linknoteref-31">return</a>)<br /> [ injury] This verb + frequently occurs in our early writers. "Then haue you INIURIED manie." + Lyly's ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE, sig. D 4, ed. 1591. It would seem to have + fallen into disuse soon after the commencement of the 17th century: in + Heywood's WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS, 1607, we find, + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "You INJURY that good man, and wrong me too." + Sig. F 2. +</pre> + <p> + but in ed. 1617 "injury" is altered to "iniure."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-32" id="linknote-32"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 32 (<a href="#linknoteref-32">return</a>)<br /> [ ALL] So the 4to.—0mitted + in the 8vo.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-33" id="linknote-33"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 33 (<a href="#linknoteref-33">return</a>)<br /> [ Who, travelling, &c.] + The halting metre shews that there is some corruption in this and the next + line.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-34" id="linknote-34"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 34 (<a href="#linknoteref-34">return</a>)<br /> [ thorough] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "through."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-35" id="linknote-35"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 35 (<a href="#linknoteref-35">return</a>)<br /> [ unvalued] i.e. not to be + valued, or estimated.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-36" id="linknote-36"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 36 (<a href="#linknoteref-36">return</a>)<br /> [ conceit] i.e. fancy, + imagination.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-37" id="linknote-37"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 37 (<a href="#linknoteref-37">return</a>)<br /> [ Rhodope] Old eds. + "Rhodolfe."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-38" id="linknote-38"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 38 (<a href="#linknoteref-38">return</a>)<br /> [ valurous] i.e. valuable.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-39" id="linknote-39"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 39 (<a href="#linknoteref-39">return</a>)<br /> [ pools] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "Poles."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-40" id="linknote-40"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 40 (<a href="#linknoteref-40">return</a>)<br /> [ resolv'd] i.e. dissolved.—So + the 8vo.—The 4to "desolu'd."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-41" id="linknote-41"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 41 (<a href="#linknoteref-41">return</a>)<br /> [ Shall we all offer] The + 8vo "Shall we offer" (the word "all" having dropt out).—The 4to "WE + ALL SHALL offer."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-42" id="linknote-42"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 42 (<a href="#linknoteref-42">return</a>)<br /> [ in] The 8vo "it."—Omitted + in the 4to.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-43" id="linknote-43"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 43 (<a href="#linknoteref-43">return</a>)<br /> [ triumph'd] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "tryumph."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-44" id="linknote-44"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 44 (<a href="#linknoteref-44">return</a>)<br /> [ brave] i.e. splendidly + clad.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-45" id="linknote-45"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 45 (<a href="#linknoteref-45">return</a>)<br /> [ top] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "foot."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-46" id="linknote-46"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 46 (<a href="#linknoteref-46">return</a>)<br /> [ mails] i.e. bags, + budgets.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-47" id="linknote-47"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 47 (<a href="#linknoteref-47">return</a>)<br /> [ lance] So the 4to.—Here + the 8vo has "lanch;" but more than once in the SEC. PART of the play it + has "lance."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-48" id="linknote-48"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 48 (<a href="#linknoteref-48">return</a>)<br /> [ this] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "the."—Qy. "Where is this Scythian SHEPHERD Tamburlaine"? + Compare the next words of Theridamas.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-49" id="linknote-49"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 49 (<a href="#linknoteref-49">return</a>)<br /> [ vaults] Here the 8vo has + "vauts,"—"which," says one of the modern editors, "was common in + Marlowe's time:" and so it was; but in the SEC. PART of this play, act ii. + sc. 4, the same 8vo gives,— + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "As we descend into the infernal VAULTS."] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-50" id="linknote-50"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 50 (<a href="#linknoteref-50">return</a>)<br /> [ thy] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "the."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-51" id="linknote-51"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 51 (<a href="#linknoteref-51">return</a>)<br /> [ brave] See note | in + preceding column.[i.e. note 44.]] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-52" id="linknote-52"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 52 (<a href="#linknoteref-52">return</a>)<br /> [ renowmed] i.e. renowned.—So + the 8vo.—The 4to "renowned." —The form "RENOWMED" (Fr. + renomme) occurs repeatedly afterwards in this play, according to the 8vo. + It is occasionally found in writers posterior to Marlowe's time. e.g. + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "Of Constantines great towne RENOUM'D in vaine." + Verses to King James, prefixed to Lord Stirling's + MONARCHICKE TRAGEDIES, ed. 1607.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-53" id="linknote-53"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 53 (<a href="#linknoteref-53">return</a>)<br /> [ cliffs] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "cliftes."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-54" id="linknote-54"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 54 (<a href="#linknoteref-54">return</a>)<br /> [ merchants] i.e. + merchant-men, ships of trade.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-55" id="linknote-55"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 55 (<a href="#linknoteref-55">return</a>)<br /> [ stems] i.e. prows.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-56" id="linknote-56"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 56 (<a href="#linknoteref-56">return</a>)<br /> [ vail] i.e. lower their + flags.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-57" id="linknote-57"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 57 (<a href="#linknoteref-57">return</a>)<br /> [ Bootes] The 8vo "Botees."—The + 4to "Boetes."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-58" id="linknote-58"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 58 (<a href="#linknoteref-58">return</a>)<br /> [ competitor] i.e. + associate, partner (a sense in which the word is used by Shakespeare).] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-59" id="linknote-59"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 59 (<a href="#linknoteref-59">return</a>)<br /> [ To these] Old eds. "ARE + these."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-60" id="linknote-60"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 60 (<a href="#linknoteref-60">return</a>)<br /> [ renowmed] See note ||, p. + 11.[i.e. note 52.]—So the 8vo. —The 4to "renowned."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-61" id="linknote-61"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 61 (<a href="#linknoteref-61">return</a>)<br /> [ statues] So the 4to.—"The + first edition reads 'statutes,' but, as the Scythians worshipped Pylades + and Orestes in temples, we have adopted the reading of the quarto as being + most probably the correct one." Ed. 1826.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-62" id="linknote-62"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 62 (<a href="#linknoteref-62">return</a>)<br /> [ kings] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "king."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-63" id="linknote-63"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 63 (<a href="#linknoteref-63">return</a>)<br /> [ Nor thee nor them] The + modern editors silently print "Nor THEY nor THEIRS."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-64" id="linknote-64"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 64 (<a href="#linknoteref-64">return</a>)<br /> [ will] So the 8vo.—Omitted + in the 4to.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-65" id="linknote-65"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 65 (<a href="#linknoteref-65">return</a>)<br /> [ pitch] Is generally + equivalent to—stature. ("I would have you tell me what PITCH he was + of, Velim mihi dicas qua STATURA fuerit." Coles's DICT.) But here it means + the highest part of the body,—the shoulders (see the 10th sign. of + PITCH in Halliwell's DICT. OF ARCH. AND PROV. WORDS),—the "pearl" + being, of course, his head.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-66" id="linknote-66"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 66 (<a href="#linknoteref-66">return</a>)<br /> [ and] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "with."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-67" id="linknote-67"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 67 (<a href="#linknoteref-67">return</a>)<br /> [ His arms and fingers long + and sinewy] So the 8vo, except that, by a misprint, it has "snowy" for + "sinewy."—The 4to gives the line thus,— + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "His armes long, HIS fingers SNOWY-WHITE."!! +</pre> + <p> + (and so the line used to stand in Lamb's SPEC. OF DRAM. POETS, till I made + the necessary alteration in Mr. Moxon's recent ed. of that selection.)] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-68" id="linknote-68"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 68 (<a href="#linknoteref-68">return</a>)<br /> [ subdu'd] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "subdue."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-69" id="linknote-69"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 69 (<a href="#linknoteref-69">return</a>)<br /> [ Nature doth strive with + Fortune, &c.] Qy did Shakespeare recollect this passage when he wrote,— + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great"? + KING JOHN, act iii. sc. 1.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-70" id="linknote-70"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 70 (<a href="#linknoteref-70">return</a>)<br /> [ port] i.e. gate.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-71" id="linknote-71"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 71 (<a href="#linknoteref-71">return</a>)<br /> [ is] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "in."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-72" id="linknote-72"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 72 (<a href="#linknoteref-72">return</a>)<br /> [ In fair, &c.] Here + "fair" is to be considered as a dissyllable: compare, in the Fourth Act of + our author's JEW OF MALTA, + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "I'll feast you, lodge you, give you FAIR words, + And, after that," &c.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-73" id="linknote-73"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 73 (<a href="#linknoteref-73">return</a>)<br /> [ of] i.e. on.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-74" id="linknote-74"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 74 (<a href="#linknoteref-74">return</a>)<br /> [ worse] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "worst."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-75" id="linknote-75"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 75 (<a href="#linknoteref-75">return</a>)<br /> [ the] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "that."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-76" id="linknote-76"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 76 (<a href="#linknoteref-76">return</a>)<br /> [ his] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "the."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-77" id="linknote-77"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 77 (<a href="#linknoteref-77">return</a>)<br /> [ be] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "are."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-78" id="linknote-78"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 78 (<a href="#linknoteref-78">return</a>)<br /> [ Beside] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "Besides."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-79" id="linknote-79"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 79 (<a href="#linknoteref-79">return</a>)<br /> [ champion] i.e. + champaign.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-80" id="linknote-80"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 80 (<a href="#linknoteref-80">return</a>)<br /> [ greedy after] Old eds. + "after greedie."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-81" id="linknote-81"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 81 (<a href="#linknoteref-81">return</a>)<br /> [ Sprung] Here, and in the + next speech, both the old eds. "Sprong": but in p. 18, l. 3, first col., + the 4to has "sprung", and in the SEC. PART of the play, act iv. sc. 4, + they both give "SPRUNG from a tyrants loynes." + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + [Page 18, First Column, Line 3, This Play: + "For he was never sprung[118: of human race,"] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-82" id="linknote-82"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 82 (<a href="#linknoteref-82">return</a>)<br /> [ teeth of] So the 8vo.—Omitted + in the 4to.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-83" id="linknote-83"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 83 (<a href="#linknoteref-83">return</a>)<br /> [ lance] Here both the old + eds. "lanch": but see note ||, p. 11.(i.e. note 47.)] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-84" id="linknote-84"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 84 (<a href="#linknoteref-84">return</a>)<br /> [ the] So the 8vo.—0mitted + in the 4to.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-85" id="linknote-85"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 85 (<a href="#linknoteref-85">return</a>)<br /> [ some] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "scorne."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-86" id="linknote-86"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 86 (<a href="#linknoteref-86">return</a>)<br /> [ will] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "shall."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-87" id="linknote-87"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 87 (<a href="#linknoteref-87">return</a>)<br /> [ top] i.e. rise above, + surpass.—Old eds. "stop."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-88" id="linknote-88"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 88 (<a href="#linknoteref-88">return</a>)<br /> [ renowmed] See note ||, p. + 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo. —The 4to "renowned."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-89" id="linknote-89"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 89 (<a href="#linknoteref-89">return</a>)<br /> [ thirst] The 8vo "thrust": + the 4to "thrist."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-90" id="linknote-90"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 90 (<a href="#linknoteref-90">return</a>)<br /> [ and] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "not."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-91" id="linknote-91"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 91 (<a href="#linknoteref-91">return</a>)<br /> [ the fair] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "THEE faire."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-92" id="linknote-92"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 92 (<a href="#linknoteref-92">return</a>)<br /> [ she] i.e. Nemesis.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-93" id="linknote-93"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 93 (<a href="#linknoteref-93">return</a>)<br /> [ Rhamnus'] Old eds. + "Rhamnis."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-94" id="linknote-94"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 94 (<a href="#linknoteref-94">return</a>)<br /> [ meeds] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "deeds."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-95" id="linknote-95"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 95 (<a href="#linknoteref-95">return</a>)<br /> [ into] Used here (as the + word was formerly often used) for UNTO.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-96" id="linknote-96"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 96 (<a href="#linknoteref-96">return</a>)<br /> [ sure] A dissyllable here. + In the next line "assure" is a trisyllable.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-97" id="linknote-97"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 97 (<a href="#linknoteref-97">return</a>)<br /> [ with his crown in his + hand] The old eds. add "offering to hide it;" but THAT he does presently + after.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-98" id="linknote-98"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 98 (<a href="#linknoteref-98">return</a>)<br /> [ those were] i.e. those + who were, who have been.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-99" id="linknote-99"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 99 (<a href="#linknoteref-99">return</a>)<br /> [ Stand staggering] So the + 8vo.—The 4to "Stand THOSE staggering."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-100" id="linknote-100"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 100 (<a href="#linknoteref-100">return</a>)<br /> [ For kings are clouts + that every man shoots at, + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Our crown the pin, &c. +</pre> + <p> + CLOUT means the white mark in the butts; PIN, the peg in the centre, which + fastened it.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-101" id="linknote-101"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 101 (<a href="#linknoteref-101">return</a>)<br /> [ me] So the 4to.—Omitted + in the 8vo.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-102" id="linknote-102"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 102 (<a href="#linknoteref-102">return</a>)<br /> [ MYCETES. Ay, marry, + &c.] From this to "TAMBURLAINE. Well, I mean you shall have it again" + inclusive, the dialogue is prose: compare act iv. sc. 4, p. 29.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-103" id="linknote-103"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 103 (<a href="#linknoteref-103">return</a>)<br /> [ renowmed man-at-arms] + See note ||, p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo.—The 4to "RENOWNED MEN + at armes."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-104" id="linknote-104"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 104 (<a href="#linknoteref-104">return</a>)<br /> [ chiefest] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "chiefe."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-105" id="linknote-105"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 105 (<a href="#linknoteref-105">return</a>)<br /> [ happy] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "happiest."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-106" id="linknote-106"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 106 (<a href="#linknoteref-106">return</a>)<br /> [ aim'd] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "and."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-107" id="linknote-107"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 107 (<a href="#linknoteref-107">return</a>)<br /> [ it] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "is."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-108" id="linknote-108"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 108 (<a href="#linknoteref-108">return</a>)<br /> [ our] So the 4to.—Omitted + in the 8vo.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-109" id="linknote-109"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 109 (<a href="#linknoteref-109">return</a>)<br /> [ we] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "I."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-110" id="linknote-110"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 110 (<a href="#linknoteref-110">return</a>)<br /> [ in earth] i.e. on + earth. So in the Lord's Prayer, "Thy will be done IN EARTH."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-111" id="linknote-111"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 111 (<a href="#linknoteref-111">return</a>)<br /> [ Casane] Both the old + eds. here "Casanes."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-112" id="linknote-112"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 112 (<a href="#linknoteref-112">return</a>)<br /> [ a-piece] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "apace."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-113" id="linknote-113"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 113 (<a href="#linknoteref-113">return</a>)<br /> [ purchase] i.e. booty, + gain.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-114" id="linknote-114"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 114 (<a href="#linknoteref-114">return</a>)<br /> [ quite] i.e. requite.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-115" id="linknote-115"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 115 (<a href="#linknoteref-115">return</a>)<br /> [ this] So + ([[deiktikos]]) the 8vo.—The 4to "the."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-116" id="linknote-116"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 116 (<a href="#linknoteref-116">return</a>)<br /> [ him] Old eds. "his."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-117" id="linknote-117"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 117 (<a href="#linknoteref-117">return</a>)<br /> [ and] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "with."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-118" id="linknote-118"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 118 (<a href="#linknoteref-118">return</a>)<br /> [ sprung] See note ||, p. + 14.[i.e. note 81.]] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-119" id="linknote-119"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 119 (<a href="#linknoteref-119">return</a>)<br /> [ dares] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "dare."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-120" id="linknote-120"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 120 (<a href="#linknoteref-120">return</a>)<br /> [ fate] Old eds. + "state."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-121" id="linknote-121"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 121 (<a href="#linknoteref-121">return</a>)<br /> [ Resolve] Seems to mean—dissolve + (compare "our bodies turn to elements," p. 12, sec. col.): but I suspect + some corruption here. + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Page 12, Second Column, This Play: + "TAMBURLAINE. . . . . + Until our bodies turn to elements, + And both our souls aspire celestial thrones.—" + etc.]] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-122" id="linknote-122"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 122 (<a href="#linknoteref-122">return</a>)<br /> [ Barbarous] Qy. "O + barbarous"? in the next line but one, "O treacherous"? and in the last + line of the speech, "O bloody"? But we occasionally find in our early + dramatists lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in some of + these instances at least it would almost seem that nothing has been + omitted by the transcriber or printer.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-123" id="linknote-123"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 123 (<a href="#linknoteref-123">return</a>)<br /> [ artier] i.e. artery. + This form occurs again in the SEC. PART of the present play: so too in a + copy of verses by Day;] + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "Hid in the vaines and ARTIERS of the earthe." + SHAKESPEARE SOC. PAPERS, vol. i. 19. +</pre> + <p> + The word indeed was variously written of old: + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "The ARTER strynge is the conduyt of the lyfe spiryte." + Hormanni VULGARIA, sig. G iii. ed. 1530. + + "Riche treasures serue for th'ARTERS of the war." + Lord Stirling's DARIUS, act ii. Sig. C 2. ed. 1604. + + "Onelye the extrauagant ARTIRE of my arme is brused." + EVERIE WOMAN IN HER HUMOR, 1609, sig. D 4. + + "And from the veines some bloud each ARTIRE draines." + Davies's MICROCOSMOS, 1611, p. 56.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-124" id="linknote-124"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 124 (<a href="#linknoteref-124">return</a>)<br /> [ regiment] i.e. rule.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-125" id="linknote-125"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 125 (<a href="#linknoteref-125">return</a>)<br /> [ fruit] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "fruites."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-126" id="linknote-126"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 126 (<a href="#linknoteref-126">return</a>)<br /> [ are] Old eds. "Is."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-127" id="linknote-127"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 127 (<a href="#linknoteref-127">return</a>)<br /> [ talents] Was often used + by our early writers for TALONS, as many passages might be adduced to + shew. Hence the quibble in Shakespeare's LOVE'S LABOUR (K\.OST, act iv. + sc. 2., "If a TALENT be a claw," &c.)] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-128" id="linknote-128"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 128 (<a href="#linknoteref-128">return</a>)<br /> [ harpy] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "Harper;" and with that reading the line is cited, in a note on + MACBETH, act iv. sc. 1, by Steevens, who also gives "tires UPON my life;" + but "TIRES" (a well-known term in falconry, and equivalent here to—preys) + is to be pronounced as a dissyllable. (In the 4to it in spelt "tyers."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-129" id="linknote-129"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 129 (<a href="#linknoteref-129">return</a>)<br /> [ the] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "thy."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-130" id="linknote-130"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 130 (<a href="#linknoteref-130">return</a>)<br /> [ bassoes] i.e. bashaws.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-131" id="linknote-131"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 131 (<a href="#linknoteref-131">return</a>)<br /> [ Christians renied] i.e. + Christians who have denied, or renounced their faith.—In THE GENT. + MAGAZINE for Jan. 1841, J. M. would read "Christians RENEGADENS" or + "CHRISTIAN RENEGADES:" + </p> + <p> + but the old text is right; among many passages that might be cited, + compare the following; + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "And that Ydole is the God of false Cristene, that han + RENEYED hire FEYTHE." + THE VOIAGE AND TRAVAILE OF SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILE, + p. 209. ed. 1725. + + "For that thou should'st RENY THY FAITH, and her thereby + possesse. + The Soldan did capitulat in vaine: the more thy blesse." + Warner's ALBIONS ENGLAND, B. XI. Ch. 68. p. 287. ed. 1596.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-132" id="linknote-132"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 132 (<a href="#linknoteref-132">return</a>)<br /> [ Terrene] i.e. + Mediterranean.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-133" id="linknote-133"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 133 (<a href="#linknoteref-133">return</a>)<br /> [ Renowmed] See note ||, + p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo. —The 4to "renowned."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-134" id="linknote-134"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 134 (<a href="#linknoteref-134">return</a>)<br /> [ basso] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "Brother."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-135" id="linknote-135"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 135 (<a href="#linknoteref-135">return</a>)<br /> [ Not] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "Nor."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-136" id="linknote-136"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 136 (<a href="#linknoteref-136">return</a>)<br /> [ in] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "on."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-137" id="linknote-137"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 137 (<a href="#linknoteref-137">return</a>)<br /> [ Or spread, &c.] A + word has dropt out from this line.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-138" id="linknote-138"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 138 (<a href="#linknoteref-138">return</a>)<br /> [ measur'd heaven] So the + 8vo.—The 4to "measured THE heauen."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-139" id="linknote-139"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 139 (<a href="#linknoteref-139">return</a>)<br /> [ pioners] The usual + spelling of the word in our early writers (in Shakespeare, for instance).] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-140" id="linknote-140"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 140 (<a href="#linknoteref-140">return</a>)<br /> [ ceaseless] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "carelesse."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-141" id="linknote-141"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 141 (<a href="#linknoteref-141">return</a>)<br /> [ conceits] i.e[.] + fancies, imaginations.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-142" id="linknote-142"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 142 (<a href="#linknoteref-142">return</a>)<br /> [ counterfeit] i.e. + picture, resemblance.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-143" id="linknote-143"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 143 (<a href="#linknoteref-143">return</a>)<br /> [ his] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "the."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-144" id="linknote-144"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 144 (<a href="#linknoteref-144">return</a>)<br /> [ you] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "me."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-145" id="linknote-145"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 145 (<a href="#linknoteref-145">return</a>)<br /> [ Leave] The author + probably wrote, "AGYDAS, leave," &c.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-146" id="linknote-146"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 146 (<a href="#linknoteref-146">return</a>)<br /> [ facts] i.e. deeds.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-147" id="linknote-147"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 147 (<a href="#linknoteref-147">return</a>)<br /> [ much] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "more."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-148" id="linknote-148"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 148 (<a href="#linknoteref-148">return</a>)<br /> [ Pierides] i.e. The + daughters of Pierus, who, having challenged the Muses to a trial of song, + were overcome, and changed into magpies.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-149" id="linknote-149"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 149 (<a href="#linknoteref-149">return</a>)<br /> [ the young Arabian] + Scil. Alcidamus; see p. 10, l. 9, sec. col. + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + (Page 10, Second Column, Line 9, This Play: + "Where her betrothed lord, Alcidamus,")] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-150" id="linknote-150"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 150 (<a href="#linknoteref-150">return</a>)<br /> [ Fearing his love] i.e. + Fearing with respect to his love.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-151" id="linknote-151"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 151 (<a href="#linknoteref-151">return</a>)<br /> [ of] so the 4to.—The + 8vo "and."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-152" id="linknote-152"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 152 (<a href="#linknoteref-152">return</a>)<br /> [ fury] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "furies."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-153" id="linknote-153"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 153 (<a href="#linknoteref-153">return</a>)<br /> [ shone] Old eds. + "shine."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-154" id="linknote-154"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 154 (<a href="#linknoteref-154">return</a>)<br /> [ send] Old eds. "sent."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-155" id="linknote-155"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 155 (<a href="#linknoteref-155">return</a>)<br /> [ menace] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "meane."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-156" id="linknote-156"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 156 (<a href="#linknoteref-156">return</a>)<br /> [ fetch] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "fetcht."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-157" id="linknote-157"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 157 (<a href="#linknoteref-157">return</a>)<br /> [ set] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "seate."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-158" id="linknote-158"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 158 (<a href="#linknoteref-158">return</a>)<br /> [ Terrene] i.e. + Mediterranean.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-159" id="linknote-159"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 159 (<a href="#linknoteref-159">return</a>)<br /> [ to rest or breathe] So + the 8vo.—The 4to "to BREATH AND REST."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-160" id="linknote-160"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 160 (<a href="#linknoteref-160">return</a>)<br /> [ bastones] i.e. + bastinadoes.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-161" id="linknote-161"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 161 (<a href="#linknoteref-161">return</a>)<br /> [ they] So the 8vo.—0mitted + in the 4to.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-162" id="linknote-162"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 162 (<a href="#linknoteref-162">return</a>)<br /> [ Morocco] Here the old + eds. "Moroccus,"—a barbarism which I have not retained, because + previously, in the stage-direction at the commencement of this act, p. 19, + they agree in reading "Morocco."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-163" id="linknote-163"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 163 (<a href="#linknoteref-163">return</a>)<br /> [ titles] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "title."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-164" id="linknote-164"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 164 (<a href="#linknoteref-164">return</a>)<br /> [ sarell] i.e. seraglio.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-165" id="linknote-165"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 165 (<a href="#linknoteref-165">return</a>)<br /> [ I'll] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "I will."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-166" id="linknote-166"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 166 (<a href="#linknoteref-166">return</a>)<br /> [ the] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "this."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-167" id="linknote-167"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 167 (<a href="#linknoteref-167">return</a>)<br /> [ hugy] i.e. huge.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-168" id="linknote-168"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 168 (<a href="#linknoteref-168">return</a>)<br /> [ renowm'd] See note ||, + p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo. —The 4to "renowned."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-169" id="linknote-169"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 169 (<a href="#linknoteref-169">return</a>)<br /> [ of] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "all."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-170" id="linknote-170"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 170 (<a href="#linknoteref-170">return</a>)<br /> [ rule] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "raigne."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-171" id="linknote-171"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 171 (<a href="#linknoteref-171">return</a>)<br /> [ braver] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "braue."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-172" id="linknote-172"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 172 (<a href="#linknoteref-172">return</a>)<br /> [ pash] i.e. crush to + pieces by a stroke.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-173" id="linknote-173"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 173 (<a href="#linknoteref-173">return</a>)<br /> [ y-sprung] Here the old + eds. "ySPRONG."—See note ||, p. 14. i.e. note 81.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-174" id="linknote-174"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 174 (<a href="#linknoteref-174">return</a>)<br /> [ them] Old eds. "thee."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-175" id="linknote-175"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 175 (<a href="#linknoteref-175">return</a>)<br /> [ the] Has perhaps crept + in by a mistake of the transcriber or printer.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-176" id="linknote-176"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 176 (<a href="#linknoteref-176">return</a>)<br /> [ And make your strokes + to wound the senseless light] The old eds. have, + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "And make OUR strokes to wound the sencelesse LURE." +</pre> + <p> + (the last word being, perhaps, in the 8vo "lute.") Here "light" is a very + questionable reading: qy. "air"? (though the third line above ends with + that word).)] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-177" id="linknote-177"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 177 (<a href="#linknoteref-177">return</a>)<br /> [ boss] In the GENT. MAG. + for Jan. 1841, J. M. proposed to alter "boss" to "Bassa." But Cotgrave, in + his DICT., has; "A fat BOSSE. Femme bien grasse et grosse; une coche."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-178" id="linknote-178"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 178 (<a href="#linknoteref-178">return</a>)<br /> [ advocate] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "aduocates."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-179" id="linknote-179"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 179 (<a href="#linknoteref-179">return</a>)<br /> [ That dare, &c.] + Something dropt out from this line.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-180" id="linknote-180"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 180 (<a href="#linknoteref-180">return</a>)<br /> [ Re-enter Bajazeth, + pursued by Tamburlaine] The old eds. have, + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "Bajazeth flies, and he pursues him. The battell short + (Qto. is short), and they enter, Bajazeth is ouercome." +</pre> + <p> + This not very intelligible stage-direction means perhaps that, after + Bajazeth and Tamburlaine had entered, a short combat was to take place + between them.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-181" id="linknote-181"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 181 (<a href="#linknoteref-181">return</a>)<br /> [ foil] The old eds. + "soil."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-182" id="linknote-182"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 182 (<a href="#linknoteref-182">return</a>)<br /> [ gat] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "got."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-183" id="linknote-183"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 183 (<a href="#linknoteref-183">return</a>)<br /> [ pilling] i.e. + plundering.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-184" id="linknote-184"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 184 (<a href="#linknoteref-184">return</a>)<br /> [ British] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "brightest."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-185" id="linknote-185"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 185 (<a href="#linknoteref-185">return</a>)<br /> [ martial] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "materiall."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-186" id="linknote-186"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 186 (<a href="#linknoteref-186">return</a>)<br /> [ Awake, ye men of + Memphis!] These words are put into the mouth of Judas, in Fletcher's + BONDUCA, at the commencement of act ii.; and in Fletcher's WIT WITHOUT + MONEY, act v. sc. 2. we find "thou man of Memphis."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-187" id="linknote-187"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 187 (<a href="#linknoteref-187">return</a>)<br /> [ basilisks] Pieces of + ordnance so called. They were of immense size; see Douce's ILLUST. OF + SHAKESPEARE, i. 425.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-188" id="linknote-188"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 188 (<a href="#linknoteref-188">return</a>)<br /> [ monstrous] To be read + as a trisyllable.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-189" id="linknote-189"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 189 (<a href="#linknoteref-189">return</a>)<br /> [ Or ever-drizzling] So + the 4to.—The 8vo "Or drisling."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-190" id="linknote-190"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 190 (<a href="#linknoteref-190">return</a>)<br /> [ should] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "shal."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-191" id="linknote-191"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 191 (<a href="#linknoteref-191">return</a>)<br /> [ he devil] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "he THE deuill."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-192" id="linknote-192"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 192 (<a href="#linknoteref-192">return</a>)<br /> [ Arabian king] Scil. + Alcidamus: see p. 10, l. 9, sec. col. + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + (Page 10, Second Column, Line 9, This Play: + "Where her betrothed lord, Alcidamus,")] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-193" id="linknote-193"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 193 (<a href="#linknoteref-193">return</a>)<br /> [ it] So the 4to.—Omitted + in the 8vo.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-194" id="linknote-194"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 194 (<a href="#linknoteref-194">return</a>)<br /> [ it should] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "should it."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-195" id="linknote-195"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 195 (<a href="#linknoteref-195">return</a>)<br /> [ this] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "it."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-196" id="linknote-196"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 196 (<a href="#linknoteref-196">return</a>)<br /> [ into] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "vnto."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-197" id="linknote-197"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 197 (<a href="#linknoteref-197">return</a>)<br /> [ heart] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "soul."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-198" id="linknote-198"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 198 (<a href="#linknoteref-198">return</a>)<br /> [ stoop] Qy. "stoop, + STOOP"?] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-199" id="linknote-199"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 199 (<a href="#linknoteref-199">return</a>)<br /> [ your] Old eds. "their."—Compare + the tenth line of the speech.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-200" id="linknote-200"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 200 (<a href="#linknoteref-200">return</a>)<br /> [ to] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "on."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-201" id="linknote-201"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 201 (<a href="#linknoteref-201">return</a>)<br /> [ brent] i.e. burnt. So + the 8vo.—The 4to "burnt."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-202" id="linknote-202"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 202 (<a href="#linknoteref-202">return</a>)<br /> [ kings] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "king."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-203" id="linknote-203"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 203 (<a href="#linknoteref-203">return</a>)<br /> [ from] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "in."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-204" id="linknote-204"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 204 (<a href="#linknoteref-204">return</a>)<br /> [ then, for you] So the + 4to.—The 8vo "for you then."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-205" id="linknote-205"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 205 (<a href="#linknoteref-205">return</a>)<br /> [ stark nak'd] Compare + (among many passages which might be cited from our early poets),— + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "rather on Nilus' mud + Lay me STARK NAK'D, and let the water-flies + Blow me into abhorring!" + Shakespeare's ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, act v. sc. 2. (where + the modern editors print "naked.")] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-206" id="linknote-206"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 206 (<a href="#linknoteref-206">return</a>)<br /> [ dignities] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "dignitie."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-207" id="linknote-207"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 207 (<a href="#linknoteref-207">return</a>)<br /> [ whiles] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "while."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-208" id="linknote-208"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 208 (<a href="#linknoteref-208">return</a>)<br /> [ shalt] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "shal."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-209" id="linknote-209"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 209 (<a href="#linknoteref-209">return</a>)<br /> [ grace] Olds eds. + "grac'd."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-210" id="linknote-210"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 210 (<a href="#linknoteref-210">return</a>)<br /> [ stature] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "statue:" but again, in the SECOND PART of this play, act ii. sc. 4, + we have, according to the 8vo— + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "And here will I set up her STATURE." +</pre> + <p> + and, among many passages that might be cited from our early authors, + compare the following; + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "The STATURES huge, of Porphyrie and costlier matters made." + Warner's ALBIONS ENGLAND, p. 303. ed. 1596. + + "By them shal Isis STATURE gently stand." + Chapman's BLIND BEGGER OF ALEXANDRIA, 1598, sig. A 3. + + "Was not Anubis with his long nose of gold preferred before + Neptune, whose STATURE was but brasse?" + Lyly's MIDAS, sig. A 2. ed. 1592.] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-211" id="linknote-211"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 211 (<a href="#linknoteref-211">return</a>)<br /> [ bird] i.e. the ibis.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-212" id="linknote-212"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 212 (<a href="#linknoteref-212">return</a>)<br /> [ are] Old eds. "is."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-213" id="linknote-213"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 213 (<a href="#linknoteref-213">return</a>)<br /> [ country] Old eds. + "countries."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-214" id="linknote-214"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 214 (<a href="#linknoteref-214">return</a>)<br /> [ King of Arabia] i.e. + Alcidamus; see p. 10, l. 9, sec. col. + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + (Page 10, Second Column, Line 9, This Play: + "Where her betrothed lord, Alcidamus,")] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-215" id="linknote-215"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 215 (<a href="#linknoteref-215">return</a>)<br /> [ Calydonian] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "Calcedonian."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-216" id="linknote-216"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 216 (<a href="#linknoteref-216">return</a>)<br /> [ lusty] So the 8vo.—Omitted + in the 4to.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-217" id="linknote-217"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 217 (<a href="#linknoteref-217">return</a>)<br /> [ and] So the 4to.—0mitted + in the 8vo.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-218" id="linknote-218"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 218 (<a href="#linknoteref-218">return</a>)<br /> [ Renowmed] See note ||. + p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo. —The 4to "Renow[ned."]] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-219" id="linknote-219"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 219 (<a href="#linknoteref-219">return</a>)<br /> [ Ibis' holy name] The + ibis has been already alluded to in the lines (p. 27, sec. col.),— + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "The golden stature of their feather'd bird, + That spreads her wings upon the city-walls"; +</pre> + <p> + and it is well known to have been a sacred bird among the Egyptians (see + Cicero DE NAT. DEORUM, I. 36). Compare the old play of THE TAMING OF A + SHREW; + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "Father, I SWEARE BY IBIS' GOLDEN BEAKE, + More faire and radiente is my bonie Kate + Then siluer Zanthus," &c. + p. 22. ed. Shakespeare Soc. +</pre> + <p> + In the passage of our text the modern editors substitute "Isis'" for + "Ibis'."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-220" id="linknote-220"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 220 (<a href="#linknoteref-220">return</a>)<br /> [ the] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "and."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-221" id="linknote-221"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 221 (<a href="#linknoteref-221">return</a>)<br /> [ and] So the 8vo.—Omitted + in the 4to.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-222" id="linknote-222"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 222 (<a href="#linknoteref-222">return</a>)<br /> [ thy baseness and] So + the 8vo.—The 4to "THE basnesse OF."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-223" id="linknote-223"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 223 (<a href="#linknoteref-223">return</a>)<br /> [ mask] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "walke."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-224" id="linknote-224"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 224 (<a href="#linknoteref-224">return</a>)<br /> [ My lord, &c.] + Something has dropt out: qy. "TAMELY suffer"?] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-225" id="linknote-225"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 225 (<a href="#linknoteref-225">return</a>)<br /> [ a goodly refreshing for + them] So the 8vo.—The 4to "a GOOD refreshing TO them."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-226" id="linknote-226"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 226 (<a href="#linknoteref-226">return</a>)<br /> [ Here] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "there."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-227" id="linknote-227"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 227 (<a href="#linknoteref-227">return</a>)<br /> [ it from] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "it VP from."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-228" id="linknote-228"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 228 (<a href="#linknoteref-228">return</a>)<br /> [ slice] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "fleece."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-229" id="linknote-229"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 229 (<a href="#linknoteref-229">return</a>)<br /> [ will fall] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "will NOT fall."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-230" id="linknote-230"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 230 (<a href="#linknoteref-230">return</a>)<br /> [ let] i.e. hinder.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-231" id="linknote-231"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 231 (<a href="#linknoteref-231">return</a>)<br /> [ while] i.e. until.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-232" id="linknote-232"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 232 (<a href="#linknoteref-232">return</a>)<br /> [ consort] i.e. band.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-233" id="linknote-233"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 233 (<a href="#linknoteref-233">return</a>)<br /> [ pen] i.e. his sword.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-234" id="linknote-234"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 234 (<a href="#linknoteref-234">return</a>)<br /> [ hastening] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "hasting."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-235" id="linknote-235"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 235 (<a href="#linknoteref-235">return</a>)<br /> [ 'specially] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "especially."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-236" id="linknote-236"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 236 (<a href="#linknoteref-236">return</a>)<br /> [ Morocco] Here and in + the next speech the old eds. have "Morocus" and "Moroccus:" but see note + ||, p. 22.(i.e. note 162.)] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-237" id="linknote-237"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 237 (<a href="#linknoteref-237">return</a>)<br /> [ plage] i.e. region.—Old + eds. "place."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-238" id="linknote-238"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 238 (<a href="#linknoteref-238">return</a>)<br /> [ valour] Old eds. + "value."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-239" id="linknote-239"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 239 (<a href="#linknoteref-239">return</a>)<br /> [ again] So the 8vo.—Omitted + in the 4to.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-240" id="linknote-240"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 240 (<a href="#linknoteref-240">return</a>)<br /> [ renowm'd] See note ||. + p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo. —The 4to "renown'd."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-241" id="linknote-241"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 241 (<a href="#linknoteref-241">return</a>)<br /> [ Damascus] Both the old + eds. here "Damasco:" but in many other places they agree in reading + "Damascus."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-242" id="linknote-242"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 242 (<a href="#linknoteref-242">return</a>)<br /> [ remorse] i.e. pity.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-243" id="linknote-243"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 243 (<a href="#linknoteref-243">return</a>)<br /> [ sakes] So the 8vo.—The + 4to. "sake."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-244" id="linknote-244"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 244 (<a href="#linknoteref-244">return</a>)<br /> [ blubber'd] That this + word formerly conveyed no ludicrous idea, appears from many passages of + our early writers.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-245" id="linknote-245"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 245 (<a href="#linknoteref-245">return</a>)<br /> [ And use us like a + loving conqueror] "i.e. And that he will use us like, &c." Ed. 1826.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-246" id="linknote-246"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 246 (<a href="#linknoteref-246">return</a>)<br /> [ care] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "cares."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-247" id="linknote-247"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 247 (<a href="#linknoteref-247">return</a>)<br /> [ helps] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "help."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-248" id="linknote-248"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 248 (<a href="#linknoteref-248">return</a>)<br /> [ or] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "for."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-249" id="linknote-249"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 249 (<a href="#linknoteref-249">return</a>)<br /> [ power] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "powers."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-250" id="linknote-250"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 250 (<a href="#linknoteref-250">return</a>)<br /> [ knew] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "know."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-251" id="linknote-251"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 251 (<a href="#linknoteref-251">return</a>)<br /> [ Reflexed] Old eds. + "Reflexing."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-252" id="linknote-252"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 252 (<a href="#linknoteref-252">return</a>)<br /> [ their] Old eds. + "your."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-253" id="linknote-253"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 253 (<a href="#linknoteref-253">return</a>)<br /> [ As] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "And."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-254" id="linknote-254"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 254 (<a href="#linknoteref-254">return</a>)<br /> [ tents] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "tent."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-255" id="linknote-255"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 255 (<a href="#linknoteref-255">return</a>)<br /> [ submission] Old eds. + "submissions."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-256" id="linknote-256"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 256 (<a href="#linknoteref-256">return</a>)<br /> [ of ruth and] So the + 8vo.—The 4to "AND ruth OF."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-257" id="linknote-257"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 257 (<a href="#linknoteref-257">return</a>)<br /> [ conceit] i.e. fancy, + imagination.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-258" id="linknote-258"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 258 (<a href="#linknoteref-258">return</a>)<br /> [ Hath] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "Haue."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-259" id="linknote-259"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 259 (<a href="#linknoteref-259">return</a>)<br /> [ nourish'd] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "nourish."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-260" id="linknote-260"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 260 (<a href="#linknoteref-260">return</a>)<br /> [ wish'd] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "wish."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-261" id="linknote-261"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 261 (<a href="#linknoteref-261">return</a>)<br /> [ imperious] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "imprecious."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-262" id="linknote-262"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 262 (<a href="#linknoteref-262">return</a>)<br /> [ passion] i.e. sorrow.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-263" id="linknote-263"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 263 (<a href="#linknoteref-263">return</a>)<br /> [ resolved] i.e. + dissolved.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-264" id="linknote-264"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 264 (<a href="#linknoteref-264">return</a>)<br /> [ Eyes, when that Ebena + steps to heaven, &c.] Either the transcriber or the printer has made + sad work with this passage; nor am I able to suggest any probable + emendation.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-265" id="linknote-265"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 265 (<a href="#linknoteref-265">return</a>)<br /> [ fight] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "fights."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-266" id="linknote-266"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 266 (<a href="#linknoteref-266">return</a>)<br /> [ Persia's] Old eds. + "Perseans," and "Persians."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-267" id="linknote-267"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 267 (<a href="#linknoteref-267">return</a>)<br /> [ still] i.e. distil.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-268" id="linknote-268"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 268 (<a href="#linknoteref-268">return</a>)<br /> [ I thus conceiving, and + subduing both, That which hath stoop'd the chiefest of the gods, Even from + the fiery-spangled veil of heaven, To feel the lovely warmth of shepherds' + flames, And mask in cottages of strowed reeds, &c. + </p> + <p> + i.e. I thus feeling, and also subduing, the power of Beauty, which has + drawn down the chiefest of the gods even from, &c. + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +The 8vo has, + "I thus conceiuing and subduing both. + That which hath STOPT the TEMPEST of the Gods, + Euen from the fiery spangled vaile of heauen, + To feele the louely warmth of shepheards flames, + And MARTCH in cottages of strowed WEEDS," &c. +</pre> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +The 4to has, + "I thus concieuing and subduing both, + That which hath STOPT the TEMPEST of the Gods, + Euen from the SPANGLED FIRIE vaile of heauen, + To feele the louely warmth of Shepheardes flames, + And MARCH in COATCHES of strowed WEEDES," &c. +</pre> + <p> + The alterations which I have made in this corrupted passage are supported + by the following lines of the play; + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "See now, ye slaves, my children STOOP YOUR PRIDE (i.e. make + your pride to stoop), + And lead your bodies sheep-like to the sword." + Part Second,—act iv. sc. 1. + + "The chiefest god, FIRST MOVER OF THAT SPHERE", &c. + Part First,—act iv. sc. 2. + + "Jove SOMETIME masked IN A SHEPHERD'S WEED", &c. + Part First,—act i. sc. 2. +</pre> + <p> + Perhaps in the third line of the present passage "fiery-spangled" should + be "FIRE-YSPANGLED."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-269" id="linknote-269"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 269 (<a href="#linknoteref-269">return</a>)<br /> [ Attend.] Old eds. "An." + (a misprint probably), which the modern editors understand as "Anippe" + (the waiting-maid of Zenocrate).] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-270" id="linknote-270"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 270 (<a href="#linknoteref-270">return</a>)<br /> [ March on us with] So + the 4to.—The 8vo "MARTCHT on WITH vs with."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-271" id="linknote-271"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 271 (<a href="#linknoteref-271">return</a>)<br /> [ As if there were no way + but one with us] i.e. as if we were to lose our lives. This phrase, which + is common in our early writers, was not obsolete in Dryden's time: "for, + if he heard the malicious trumpeter proclaiming his name before his + betters, he knew THERE WAS BUT ONE WAY WITH HIM." Preface to ALL FOR + LOVE.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-272" id="linknote-272"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 272 (<a href="#linknoteref-272">return</a>)<br /> [ pore] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "dore."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-273" id="linknote-273"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 273 (<a href="#linknoteref-273">return</a>)<br /> [ in] i.e. on.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-274" id="linknote-274"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 274 (<a href="#linknoteref-274">return</a>)<br /> [ stay] Old eds. "aie" + and "aye."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-275" id="linknote-275"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 275 (<a href="#linknoteref-275">return</a>)<br /> [ retorqued] i.e. bent + back in reflections on our former happiness. So the 8vo.—The 4to + "retortued."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-276" id="linknote-276"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 276 (<a href="#linknoteref-276">return</a>)<br /> [ A] Old eds. "As."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-277" id="linknote-277"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 277 (<a href="#linknoteref-277">return</a>)<br /> [ Elysium] Old eds. + "Elisian."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-278" id="linknote-278"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 278 (<a href="#linknoteref-278">return</a>)<br /> [ thoughts] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "thought."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-279" id="linknote-279"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 279 (<a href="#linknoteref-279">return</a>)<br /> [ parbreak] i.e. vomit.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-280" id="linknote-280"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 280 (<a href="#linknoteref-280">return</a>)<br /> [ abjection] Old eds. + "obiection."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-281" id="linknote-281"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 281 (<a href="#linknoteref-281">return</a>)<br /> [ villainess] i.e. + servant, slave,] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-282" id="linknote-282"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 282 (<a href="#linknoteref-282">return</a>)<br /> [ ruth] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "truth."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-283" id="linknote-283"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 283 (<a href="#linknoteref-283">return</a>)<br /> [ resolve] i.e. + dissolve.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-284" id="linknote-284"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 284 (<a href="#linknoteref-284">return</a>)<br /> [ bann'd] i.e. cursed.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-285" id="linknote-285"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 285 (<a href="#linknoteref-285">return</a>)<br /> [ the] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "thy."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-286" id="linknote-286"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 286 (<a href="#linknoteref-286">return</a>)<br /> [ ever-living] So the + 8vo.—The 4to. "euerlasting."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-287" id="linknote-287"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 287 (<a href="#linknoteref-287">return</a>)<br /> [ give] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "AND giue."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-288" id="linknote-288"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 288 (<a href="#linknoteref-288">return</a>)<br /> [ her] Must mean + Zenocrate, whom Zabina fancies herself to be addressing.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-289" id="linknote-289"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 289 (<a href="#linknoteref-289">return</a>)<br /> [ Let the soldiers be + buried.—Hell, death, Tamburlaine] So the 8vo.—Omitted in the + 4to. (Where the modern editors got their reading, "Let the soldiers be + CURSED," I know not.)] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-290" id="linknote-290"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 290 (<a href="#linknoteref-290">return</a>)<br /> [ Make ready my coach] + Shakespeare seems to have remembered this passage when he made Ophelia + say, "Come, my coach," &c. HAMLET, act iv. sc. 5.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-291" id="linknote-291"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 291 (<a href="#linknoteref-291">return</a>)<br /> [ I come, I come, I come] + So the 8vo.—The 4to "I come, I come."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-292" id="linknote-292"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 292 (<a href="#linknoteref-292">return</a>)<br /> [ Egyptians'] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "Egiptian.'] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-293" id="linknote-293"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 293 (<a href="#linknoteref-293">return</a>)<br /> [ The] Old eds. "Thy."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-294" id="linknote-294"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 294 (<a href="#linknoteref-294">return</a>)<br /> [ thy] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "thine."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-295" id="linknote-295"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 295 (<a href="#linknoteref-295">return</a>)<br /> [ war] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "warres."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-296" id="linknote-296"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 296 (<a href="#linknoteref-296">return</a>)<br /> [ Come] Old eds. "Comes" + and "Comep."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-297" id="linknote-297"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 297 (<a href="#linknoteref-297">return</a>)<br /> [ Armed] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "Armes."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-298" id="linknote-298"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 298 (<a href="#linknoteref-298">return</a>)<br /> [ final] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "small."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-299" id="linknote-299"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 299 (<a href="#linknoteref-299">return</a>)<br /> [ King of Arabia] i.e. + Alcidamus; see p. 10, l. 9, sec. col.] + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + [Page 10, Second Column, Line 9, This Play: + "Where her betrothed lord, Alcidamus,"] +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linknote-300" id="linknote-300"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 300 (<a href="#linknoteref-300">return</a>)<br /> [ thy] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "my."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-301" id="linknote-301"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 301 (<a href="#linknoteref-301">return</a>)<br /> [ conceit] i.e. fancy, + imagination.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-302" id="linknote-302"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 302 (<a href="#linknoteref-302">return</a>)<br /> [ have] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "hath."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-303" id="linknote-303"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 303 (<a href="#linknoteref-303">return</a>)<br /> [ Euphrates] So our old + poets invariably, I believe, accentuate this word. [Note: 'Euphrates' was + printed with no accented characters at all.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-304" id="linknote-304"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 304 (<a href="#linknoteref-304">return</a>)<br /> [ should] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "shall."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-305" id="linknote-305"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 305 (<a href="#linknoteref-305">return</a>)<br /> [ sweat] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "sweare."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-306" id="linknote-306"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 306 (<a href="#linknoteref-306">return</a>)<br /> [ wide-gaping] Old eds. + "wide GASPING."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-307" id="linknote-307"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 307 (<a href="#linknoteref-307">return</a>)<br /> [ resolv'd] i.e. + dissolved.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-308" id="linknote-308"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 308 (<a href="#linknoteref-308">return</a>)<br /> [ Millions] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "Million."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-309" id="linknote-309"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 309 (<a href="#linknoteref-309">return</a>)<br /> [ Elysium] Old eds. + "Elisian."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-310" id="linknote-310"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 310 (<a href="#linknoteref-310">return</a>)<br /> [ Renowmed] See note ||, + p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo. —The 4to "Renowned."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-311" id="linknote-311"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 311 (<a href="#linknoteref-311">return</a>)<br /> [ record] i.e. take to + witness.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-312" id="linknote-312"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 312 (<a href="#linknoteref-312">return</a>)<br /> [ no further time] i.e. + no more distant time.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-313" id="linknote-313"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 313 (<a href="#linknoteref-313">return</a>)<br /> [ the] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "my."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-314" id="linknote-314"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 314 (<a href="#linknoteref-314">return</a>)<br /> [ I not] So the 8vo.—The + 4to "not I."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-315" id="linknote-315"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 315 (<a href="#linknoteref-315">return</a>)<br /> [ Else] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "Then."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-316" id="linknote-316"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 316 (<a href="#linknoteref-316">return</a>)<br /> [ on] So the 4to.—Omitted + in the 8vo.] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-317" id="linknote-317"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 317 (<a href="#linknoteref-317">return</a>)<br /> [ as beseems] So the 4to.—The + 8vo "as BEST beseemes."] + </p> + <p> + <a name="linknote-318" id="linknote-318"> + <!-- Note --></a> + </p> + <p class="foot"> + 318 (<a href="#linknoteref-318">return</a>)<br /> [ We will our rites, + &c.] Old eds. "We will our CELEBRATED rites," &c.—"The word + 'CELEBRATED' occurs in both the old editions, but may well be dispensed + with as regards both the sense and measure." Ed. 1826. "I think this word + got into the text from either the author or printer, who was perhaps the + editor, doubting whether to use 'SOLEMNIZE' or 'CELEBRATE;' and it slipt + from the margin, where it was probably placed, into the verse itself." J. + M. in GENT. MAG. for Jan. 1841.] + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1589/1589-h/1589-h.htm"><b>Proceed + to Part II.</b></a> <br /><br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Tamburlaine the Great, Part I., by +Christopher Marlowe + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT, PART I. *** + +***** This file should be named 1094-h.htm or 1094-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/0/9/1094/ + +Produced by Gary R. Young, and David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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