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Villain, respects thou more thy slavish life, Than honour of thy country or thy name? Is not my life and state as deer to me, The citic and my native countries weal, As any thing of price with thy conceit? Have we not hope, for all our battered walls, To live secure, and keep his forces out, When this our famous lake of Limnasphaltis Makes walls a fresh with every thing that falls Into the liquid substance of his stream, More strong than are the gates of death or hell, What faintness should dismay our courages, When we are thus defenced against our Foe, And have no terror but his threatening looks? My Lord, if ever you did deed of tuth, And now will work a refuge to our lives, Offer submission, hang up flags of truce, That Tambur lain may pity our distress, And use us Like a loving Conqueror, Though this be held his last days dreadful siege, Wherein he spares neither man nor child, Yet are there Christians of Georgia here, Whose state he ever pitied and relieved: Will get his pardon if your grace would send. Tyrant, I turn the traitor in thy throat, And will defend it in despite of thee. Call up the soldiers to defend these walls. Assault and spare not, we will never yield. Nor if my body could have stopped the breach, Shouldst thou have entted, cruel tamburlaine: 'Tis not thy bloody tents can make me yield, Nor yet thy self, thè anger of the highest, For though thy cannon shook the city walls, My heart did never quake, or courage faint. Under a hollow bank, right opposite Against the Western gate of Babylon. WHat says Maximus? How is my soul environed, And this eternised city Babylon, Filled with a pack of faintheart Fugitives, That thus entreat their shame and servitude? Villains, cowards, Traitors to our state, Fallen to the earth, and pierce the pit of Hell, That legions of tormenting spirits may for Your slavish bosoms with continual pames, I cate not, nor the town will never yield As long as any life is in my breast. Thou desperate Governor of Babylon, To save thy life, and us a little labour, Yield speedily the city to our hands, Or else be sure thou shalt be forced with pains, More exquisite than ever Traitor felt. But Tamburlain, in Lymnasphaltis lake, There lies more gold than Babylon is worth, Which when the city was besieged I hid, Save but my life and I will give it thee. Yet save my life, and let this wound appease The mortal fury of great Tamburlain. Vile monster, born of some infernal hag, And sent from hell to tyrannise on earth, Do all thy wurst, nor death, nor Tamburlaine, Torture or pain can daunt my dreadless mind.
Plot summary
Plot — 2 Tamburlaine the Great
Q@reames has invaded Europe, but the advance of @amiburlaine in Asia forces him to make peace: he concludes a defensive treaty with SigiSiOHa) and both swear by the gods of their respective religions. Sigismond breaks his vow and makes war; Orcanes prays to Jesus Christ for victory, and Sigismond interprets his defeat as divine vengeance for his perjury. Bajazetli’s son @allapimé escapes from prison in Egypt by offering his jailer wealth and a crown. He is installed as Emperor of Turkey, and he and (Bamiburlaine muster their forces for war on one another. Tamburlaine encourages his sons to martial pursuits, and promises to settle the succession on the most warlike, not the eldest. He teaches them courage by wounding himself, but @alypHaS proves reluctant. Zenoeraté dies. Tamburlaine has her body embalmed and takes it with him; Bamissa, the town of her death, is burned. @echelles and [iieridamas besiege BalSSPA at the Syrian frontier. The fort is taken and its captain shot; determined not to outlive him, his wife Olympia kills her son but is captured before she can kill herself. Miteridamias woos her, and threatens rape when she rejects him. She offers him an ointment that will make him invulnerable, and offers to test it by anointing her own throat; this turns out to be a trick to make him kill her. Wamburiaine’s forces arrive at the frontier and give battle. GalyphasiStays away, preferring to play cards, so Tamburlaine kills him. Callapine’s subject kings are captured and made to draw Tamburlaine’s chariot, while the Turkish concubines are given to the common soldiers. Callapine himself escapes and regroups while Tamburlaine marches on Babylon. EH@GG¥ErHOE is captured, hung up in chains on his city walls, and shot. The citizens are drowned in the asphalt lake nearby. Tamburlaine burns the Koran and challenges Muhammad to take vengeance. He is taken ill and dies, regretting the parts of the world he has left unconquered. Amyras succeeds his father, while Callapine’s army advances.