Or if my love unto your majesty May merit favour at your highness' hands, TAMB. Zenocrate, were Egypt Jove's own land, And would'st thou have me buy thy father's love ZENO. Honour still wait on happy Tamburlaine; Yet give me leave to plead for him, my lord. TAMB. Content thyself: his person shall be safe And all the friends of fair Zenocrate, If with their lives they may be pleas'd to yield, For Egypt and Arabia must be mine.— Feed you slave; thou may'st think thyself happy to be fed from my trencher. BAJ. My empty stomach, full of idle heat, ZAB. Eat, Bajazet; and let us live in spite of them, looking some happy power will pity and enlarge us. TAMB. Here, Turk; wilt thou have a clean trencher? BAJ. Aye, tyrant, and more meat. TAMB. Soft, sir; you must be dieted; too much eating will make you surfeit. THER. So it would, my lord, especially having so small a walk and so little exercise. [A second course is brought in of crowns. TAMB. Theridamas, Techelles, and Casane, here are the cates you desire to finger, are they not? THER. Aye my lord: but none save kings must feed with them. TECH. 'Tis enough for us to see them, and for Tamburlaine only to enjoy them. TAMB. 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. How say you to this, Turk? These are not your contributory kings. BAJ. Nor shall they long be thine, I warrant them. TAMB. Kings of Argier, Morocco, and of Fez, You that have march'd with happy Tamburlaine As far as from the frozen place of heaven, Unto the wat'ry morning's ruddy bower, And thence by land unto the torrid zone, Deserve these titles I endow you with, Your birth shall be no blemish to your fame, If we deserve them not with higher meeds We mean to travel to th' antarctick pole, [Exeunt. ACT THE FIFTH. SCENE I. Enter the GOVERNOR of DAMASCUS, with three or four CITIZENS, and four VIRGINS, with branches of laurel in their hands. Gov. Still doth this man, or rather god of war, Or hope of rescue from the Soldan's power, Were but to bring our wilful overthrow, And make us desperate of our threat'ned lives. And if we should with common rites of arms I fear the custom, proper to his sword, Will never be dispens'd with 'till our deaths; 1 VIRG. If humble suits or imprecations, These more than dangerous warrants of our death • And use us like a loving conqueror-i. e. and that he will use us like, &c. Had never been erected as they be, Nor you depend on such weak helps as we. Gov. Well, lovely virgins, think our country's care, Our love of honour, loath to be inthrall'd To foreign pow'rs and rough imperious yokes, of wars; 2 VIRG. Then here before the Majesty of Heaven And holy patrons of Egyptia, With knees and hearts submissive we entreat Grace to our words and pity to our looks And through the eyes and ears of Tamburlaine Leave us, my lord, and loving countrymen ; |