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Scæna. 6.

Enter Techelles and Vsumeasane together.
Tamb.
Kings of Morocus and of Fesse, welcome.

Vsu.
Magnificent & peerlesse Tamburlaine,
I and my neighbor King of Fesse haue brought
To aide thee in this Turkish expedition,
A hundred thousand expert souldiers:
From Azamor to Tunys neare the sea,
Is Barbary vnpeopled for thy sake,
And all the men in armour vnder me,
Which with my crowne I gladly offer thee.

tam.
Thanks king of Morocus, take your crown again.

tech.
And mighty Tamburlaine, our earthly God,
Whose lookes make this inferiour world to quake,
I here present thee with the crowne of Fesse,
And with an hoste of Moores trainde to the war,
Whose coleblacke faces make their foes retire,
And quake for feare, as if infernall Ioue
Meaning to aid them in this Turkish armes,
Should pierce the blacke circumference of hell,
With vgly Furies bearing fiery flags,
And millions of his strong tormenting spirits:
From strong Tesella vnto Biledull,
All Barbary is vnpeopled for thy sake.

tam.
Thanks king of Fesse, take here thy crowne again
Your presence (louing friends and fellow kings)
Makes me to surfet in conceiuing ioy,
If all the christall gates of Ioues high court
Were opened wide, and I might enter in
To see the state and maiesty of heauen,
It could not more delight me than your sight.
Now will we banquet on these plaines a while,
And after martch to Turky with our Campe,
In number more than are the drops that fall
When Boreas rents a thousand swelling cloudes,
And proud Orcanes of Natolia,
With all his viceroies shall be so affraide,
That though the stones, as at Deucalions flood,
Were turnde to men, he should be ouercome:
Such lauish will I make of Turkish blood,
That Ioue shall send his winged Messenger
To bid me sheath my sword, and leaue the field:
The Sun vnable to sustaine the sight,
Shall hide his head in thetis, watery lap,
And leaue his steeds to faire Boetes charge:
For halfe the world shall perish in this fight:
But now my friends, let me examine ye,
How haue ye spent your absent time from me?

Vsum.
My Lord our men of Barbary haue martcht
Foure hundred miles with armour on their backes,
And laine in leagre fifteene moneths and more,
For since we left you at the Souldans court,
We haue subdude the Southerne Guallatia,
And all the land vnto the coast of Spaine.
We kept the narrow straight of Gibralter,
And made Canarea cal vs kings and Lords,
Yet neuer did they recreate themselues,
Or cease one day from war and hot alarms,
And therefore let them rest a while my Lord.

Tam.
They shal Casane, and tis time yfaith.

Tech.
And I haue martch'd along the riuer Nile,
To Machda, where the mighty Christian Priest
Cal'd Iohn the great, sits in a milk-white robe,
Whose triple Myter I did take by force,
And made him sweare obedience to my crowne.
From thence vnto Cazates did I martch,
Wher Amazonians met me in the field:
With whom (being women) I vouchsaft a league,
And with my power did march to zansibar
The Westerne part of Affrike, where I view'd.
The Ethiopian sea, riuers and lakes:
But neither man nor child in al the land:
Therfore I tooke my course to Manico.
Where vnresisted I remoou'd my campe:
And by the coast of Byather at last,
I came to Cubar, where the Negros dwell,
And conquering that, made haste to Nubia,
There hauing sackt Borno the Kingly seat,
I took the king, and lead him bound in chaines
Unto Damasco, where I staid before.

Tamb.
Well done Techelles: what saith Theridamas?

ther.
I left the confines and the bounds of Affrike
And made a voyage into Europe,
Where by the riuer Tyros I subdew'd
Stoka, Padalia, and Codemia.
Then crost the sea and came to Oblia.
And Nigra Silua, where the Deuils dance,
Which in despight of them I set on fire:
From thence I crost the Gulfe, call'd by the name
Mare magiore, of th'inhabitantes:
Yet shall my souldiers make no period
Untill Natolia kneele before your feet.

tamb.
Then wil we triumph, banquet and carouse,
Cookes shall haue pensions to prouide vs cates,
And glut vs with the dainties of the world,
Lachrima Christi and Calabrian wines
Shall common Souldiers drink in quaffing boules
I, liquid golde when we haue conquer'd him
Mingled with corrall and with orientall pearle:
Come let vs banquet and carrouse the whiles.

Exeunt.
Finis Actus primi.