While they walke quiuering on their citie walles, 1645 Bai. I, such a stomacke (cruel Tamburlane) as I could willingly feed vpon thy blood-raw hart. 1650 Tam. Nay, thine owne is easier to come by, plucke out that, and twil serue thee and thy wife: Wel Zenocrate, Techelles, and the rest, fall to your victuals. Bai. Fall to, and neuer may your meat digest. Zen. My Lord, how can you suffer these 1655 1660. 1665 1669 Tech. I pray you give them leaue Madam, this speech is a goodly refreshing to them. Ther. But if his highnesse would let them be fed, it would doe them more good. Tam. Sirra, why fall you not too, are you so daintily brought vp, you cannot eat your owne flesh? 1675 Bai. First legions of deuils shali teare thee in peeces. Vsum. Villain, knowest thou to whom thou speakest ? Tam. O let him alone: here, eat sir, take it from my swords point, or Ile thrust it to thy heart. He takes it and stamps vpon it. 1655 maske] walke 1605 1664 My Lord] My lord, my lord Bull. My gracious Lord conj. Wag. suffer] tamely suffer conj. Dyce, Ellis 1671 goodly] good 1605 to] for 1592, Dyce you not] ye not 1605 1674 1678 here] there 1605 from] vp from 1605 Ther. He stamps it vnder his feet my Lord. 1680 Tam. Take it vp Villaine, and eat it, or I will make thee Vsu. Nay, twere better he kild his wife, & then she 1686 Tam. Here is my dagger, dispatch her while she is fat, 1690 Ther. Doost thou think that Mahomet wil suffer this? Tam. Go to, fal to your meat: what not a bit ? belike Faste and welcome sir, while hunger make you eat. Zen. Yes, my Lord. Ther. Me thinks, tis a great deale better than a consort 1700 Tam. Yet musicke woulde doe well to cheare vp Zeno- Zen. My lord, to see my fathers towne besieg'd, If any loue remaine in you my Lord, Or if my loue vnto your maiesty May merit fauour at your highnesse handes, Then raise your siege from faire Damascus walles, 1705 1710 Tamb. Zenocrate, were Egypt Ioues owne land, Yet would I with my sword make Ioue to stoope. I will confute those blind Geographers 1715 That make a triple region in the world, Excluding Regions which I meane to trace, 1682 slice] fleece 1605 1688 fall] not fall 1605 1720 Here at Damascus will I make the Point That shall begin the Perpendicular. And wouldst thou haue me buy thy Fathers loue Zen. Honor still waight on happy Tamburlaine: Yet giue me leaue to plead for him my Lord. 1725 Tam. Content thy selfe, his person shall be safe, And all the friendes of faire Zenocrate, If with their lines they will be pleasde to yeeld, 1730 For Egypt and Arabia must be mine. Feed you slaue, thou maist thinke thy selfe happie to be fed from my trencher. Bai. My empty stomacke ful of idle heat, Drawes bloody humours from my feeble partes, 1735 My vaines are pale, my sinowes hard and drie, Zab. Eat Baiazeth. Let vs liue in spite of them, looking some happie power will pitie and inlarge vs. 1740 Tam. Here Turk, wilt thou haue a cleane trencher ? Bai. I Tyrant, and more meat. Tam. Soft sir, you must be dieted, too much eating will make you surfeit. Ther. So it would my lord, specially hauing so smal a walke, and so litle exercise. Enter a second course of Crownes. 1746 Tam. Theridamas, Techelles and Casane, here are the cates you desire to finger, are they not? Ther. I(my Lord) but none saue kinges must feede with these. 1750 Tech. Tis enough for vs to see them, and for Tamburlaine onely to enjoy them. Tam. Wel, here is now to the Souldane of Egypt, the King of Arabia, and the Gouernour of Damascus. Now take these three crownes, and pledge me, my contributorie Kings. I crowne you here (Theridamas) King of Argier : Techelles King of Fesse, and Vsumcasane, King of Morocus. How say you to this (Turke) these are not your contributorie kings. Bai. Nor shall they long be thine, I warrant them. 1760 1723 thy] my 1605 1736 hastening 1605, Dyce, Cunn. 1745 specially] especially 1605. Rob., Cunn. Tam. Kings of Argier, Morocus, and of Fesse: And thence by land vnto the Torrid Zone, 1765 Your byrthes shall be no blemish to your fame, For vertue is the fount whence honor springs, And they are worthy she inuesteth kings. 1770 Ther. And since your highnesse hath so well vouchsaft, If we deserue them not with higher meeds Finis Actus quarti. Actus 5. Scana 1. 1775 1780 The Gouernour of Damasco, with three or foure Citizens, and foure Virgins with branches of Laurell in their hands. Gouernour. Stil dooth this man or rather God of war, Batter our walles, and beat our Turrets downe. And to resist with longer stubbornesse, Or hope of rescue from the Souldans power, 1785 And make vs desperate of our threatned liues : We see his tents haue now bene altered, With terrours to the last and cruelst hew: His cole-blacke collours euery where aduaunst, 1790 And if we should with common rites of Armes, 1592 1763 place] plage Dyce to Bull. 1764 bower 1605: hower 1590, 1767 valour Rob. etc.: value 1590-1605 1769 whence] 1774 againe om. 1605 1777 th'] the 1605 where 1605 Act. 4. Scana 3. Souldane, Arabia, Capoline, with streaming collors and Souldan. Me thinks we martch as Meliager did, 1575 1580 To tame the pride of this presumptuous Beast, 1585 Ioine your Arabians with the Souldans power : And hasten to remooue Damascus siege. And high estate of mightie Emperours, 1590 That such a base vsurping vagabond Should braue a king, or weare a princely crowne. About the confines of Bythinia? 1595 The slauerie wherewith he persecutes The noble Turke and his great Emperesse? Soul. I haue, and sorrow for his bad successe: But noble Lord of great Arabia, Be so perswaded, that the Souldan is 1600 No more dismaide with tidings of his fall, Than in the hauen when the Pilot stands And viewes a strangers ship rent in the winds, And shiuered against a craggie rocke, Yet in compassion of his wretched state, 1605 A sacred vow to heauen and him I make, 1570+ S.D. streaming 1605 etc.: steaming 1590, 1592 1574 lustie om. 1605 1587 bandes] handes 1605 1573 1582 and om. 1592 |