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• Preface
• Publisher's Notice
• Introduction
• Tamburlaine the Great. In Two Parts.
• Tamburlaine the Great, Part Tbe First.
• The Prologue.
• Persons Represented. 1
• Tamburlaine the Great. Part the First.: Act the First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Act the Second.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Scene VII.
• Act the Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Act the Fourth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act the Fifth.
• Scene I.
• Tamburlaine the Great. Part the Second
• Prologue.
• Persons Represented.
• Tamburlaine the Great. Part the Second: Act the First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene II.
• Act the Second.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act the Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Act the Fourth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act the Fifth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
• Persons Represented.
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI. 1
• Scene VII.
• Scene VIII.
• Scene IX.
• Scene X.
• Scene XI.
• Scene XII.
• Scene XIII.
• Scene XIV.
• Scene XV.
• Scene XVI.
• Appendix to Dr. Faustus.
• Ballad of Faustus.

SCENE II.

Enter ORCANES, GAZELLUS, and URIBASSA, with their trains.

Orc.

• Gazellus, Uribassa, and the rest,
• Now will we march from proud Orminius' mount,
• To fair Natolia, where our neighbour kings
• Expect our power and our royal presence,
• To encounter with the cruel Tamburlaine,
• That nigh Larissa sways a mighty host,
• And with the thunder of his martial1 tools
• Makes earthquakes in the hearts of men and heaven.

Gaz.

• And now come we to make his sinews shake,
• With greater power than erst his pride hath felt

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• An hundred kings, by scores, will bid him arms,
• And hundred thousands subjects to each score,
• Which, if a shower of wounding thunderbolts
• Should break out of the bowels of the clouds,
• And fall as thick as hail upon our heads,
• In partial aid of that proud Scythian,
• Yet should our courages and steeled crests,
• And numbers, more than infinite, of men,
• Be able to withstand and conquer him.

Uri.

• Methinks I see how glad the Christian king

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  Is made, for joy of your admitted truce,
• That could not but before be terrified
• With1 unacquainted power of our host.
• Enter a Messenger.

Mess.

• Arm, dread sovereign, and my noble lords!
• The treacherous army of the Christians,
• Taking advantage of your slender power,
• Comes marching on us, and determines straight
• To bid us battle for our dearest lives.

Orc.

• Traitors! villains! damned Christians!
• Have I not here the articles of peace,

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• And solemn covenants we have both confirmed,
• He by his Christ, and I by Mahomet?

Gaz.

• Hell and confusion light upon their heads,
• That with such treason seek our overthrow,
• And care so little for their prophet, Christ!

Orc.

• Can there be such deceit in Christians,
• Or treason in the fleshly heart of man,
• Whose shape is figure of the highest God!
• Then, if there be a Christ, as Christians say,
• But in their deeds deny him for their Christ,
• If he be son to everhving Jove,
• And hath the power of his outstretched arm;
• If he be jealous of his name and honour,
• As is our holy prophet, Mahomet;—
• Take here these papers as our sacrifice
• And witness of thy servant's perjury.
• [He tears to pieces the articles of peace.
• Open, thou shining veil of Cynthia,
• And make a passage from the empyreal heaven,
• That he that sits on high and never sleeps,
• Nor in one place is circumscriptible,
• But everywhere fills every continent
• With strange infusion of his sacred vigour,
• May in his endless power and purity,
• Behold and venge this traitor's perjury!
• Thou Christ, that art esteemed omnipotent,
• If thou wilt prove thyself a perfect God,
• Worthy the worship of all faithful hearts,
• Be now revenged upon this traitor's soul,
• And make the power I have left behind,
• (Too little to defend our guiltless lives,)
• Sufficient to discomfort and confound
• The trustless force of those false Christians.
• To arms, my lords! On Christ still let us cry!
• If there be Christ, we shall have victory.

[1]So 4to.—8vo. “matenall.”

[1]So 4to.— 8vo. “which.” The confusion between with and which is very common.