TAMB. 'Twill prove a pretty jest, in faith, my friends. THER. A jest to charge on twenty thousand men ! And lose more labour than the gain will quite + : But give him warning and || more warriors: What saith Theridamas? THER. Go on, for me. SCENE VI. [Exit Techelles. [Exeunt. Enter COSROE, MEANDER, ORTYGIUS, and Cos. What means this devilish shepherd, to aspire With such a giantly presumption, *purchase] i. e. booty-gain. this] So the 8vo.-The 4to "the." Shim] Old eds. "his." and] So the 8vo.-The 4to " with." + quite] i. e. requite. To cast up hills against the face of heaven, But, as he thrust them underneath the hills, For he was never sprung* of human race, = metal ORTY. What god, or fiend, or spirit of the earth, Or monster turnèd to a manly shape, Or of what mould or mettle he be made, * sprung] See note, p. 36. +dures] So the 8vo.-The 4to "dare." fate] Old eds. "state." § Resolve] Seems to mean-dissolve (compare "our bodies turn to elements." p. 29): but I suspect some corruption here. 6th him in wet fo Same is Keep state = mould w ༡ And of. Last 1. If the speech Let's cheer our soldiers to encounter him, That fiery thirster after sovereignty, [Exeunt, drums sounding. SCENE VII. Alarms of battle within. Then enter COSROE wounded, TAMBURLAINE, THERIDAMAS, TECHELLES, USUMCASANE, with others. Cos. Barbarous* and bloody Tamburlaine, Even at the morning of my happy state, * Barbarous] Qy. "Oh, larbarous "? in the next line but "Oh, treacherous"? and in the last line of the speech, "Oh, bloody"? one, Sacks every vein and artier* of my heart. Bloody and insatiate Tamburlaine ! TAMB. The thirst of reign and sweetness of a crown, That caus'd the eldest son of heavenly Ops 2.4. ELEMENTS To thrust his doting father from his chair, Avg dil artier] i. e. artery. 3. Sp This form occurs again in the Sec. Part of the present play: so too in a copy of verses by Day; "Hid in the vaines and artiers of the earthe." Shakespeare Soc. Papers, vol. i. 19. The word indeed was variously written of old: "The arter strynge is the conduyt of the lyfe spiryte." Hormanni Vulgaria, sig. G iii. ed. 1530. 66 "Riche treasures serue for th'arters of the war." Lord Stirling's Darius, act ii. sig. C 2. ed. 1604. "And from the veines some bloud each artire draines." 4. HEAVENS And always moving as the restless spheres, THER. And that made me to join with Tambur- For he is gross and like the massy earth, That moves not upwards, nor by princely deeds TECH. And that made us, the friends of Tambur laine, To lift our swords against the Persian king. USUм. For as, when Jove did thrust old Saturn Neptune and Dis gain'd each of them a crown, If Tamburlaine be plac'd in Persia. Cos. 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; And summons all my senses to depart: The heat and moisture, which did feed each other, * Will] Old eds. "Wils." † fruit] So the 4to.-The 8vo "fruites." |