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Scena Quinta.

Enter Zemes the brother of Baiazet alone.
Zemes.
Scarce had I set my foote within these walls
In expectation of a solemne hearse,
Due to the wandring Ghost of Mahomet;
But lowd alarmes of abundant ioy
Ring in mine eares, and euery seruile groome
Congratulates the Coronation
A showt within.
Of Baiazet: harke how they roare it out.
A cold disturbance like a gelid frost
Settles my blood within me, and I hate
His cheerefull triumphes, more then mine owne Fate
'Tis true indeede, I prou'd not the first fruites,
An elder off-spring of my Fathers breede,
Yet was it so that Baiazet and I
Both tumbled in one wombe, perhaps the Queene
Of womens labours doted at our birth,
And sent him first abroad, or else I slept,
And he before me stole into the world,
Must I then loose my glory, and be hurl'd
A slaue beneath his feete? no, I must be
An Emperour as full as great as he.

Exit.