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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 III.

Alarums of battle.—Enter SIGISMUND, wounded.

Sig.

• Discomfited is all the Christian host,
• And God hath thundered vengeance from on high,
• For my accursèd and -hateful perjury.
• O, just and dreadful punisher of sin,
• Let the dishonour of the pains I feel,
• In this my mortal well-deserved wound,
• End all my penance in my sudden death!
• And let this death, wherein to sin I die,
• Conceive a second life in endless mercy!
• [He dies.
• Enter ORCANES, GAZELLUS, URIBASSA, and others.

Orc.

• Now lie the Christians bathing in their bloods,

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• nd Christ or Mahomet hath been my friend.

Gaz.

• See here the perjured traitor Hungary,
• Bloody and breathless for his villany.

Orc.

• Now shall his barbarous body be a prey
• To beasts and fowls, and all the winds shall breathe
• Through shady leaves of every senseless tree
• Murmurs and hisses for his heinous sin.
• Now scalds his soul in the Tartarian streams,
• And feeds upon the baneful tree of hell,
• That Zoacum,1 that fruit of bitterness,
• That in the midst of fire is ingrafted,
• Yet flourishes as Flora in her pride,
• With apples like the heads of damned fiends.
• The devils there, in chains of quenchless flame,
• Shall lead his soul through Orcus' burning gulph,
• From pain to pain, whose change shall never end.
• What say'st thou yet, Gazellus, to his foil
• Which we referred to justice of his Christ,
• And to his power, which here appears as full
• As rays of Cynthia to the clearest sight?

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Gaz.

• 'Tis but the fortune of the wars, my lord,
• Whose power is often proved a miracle.

Orc.

• Yet in my thoughts shall Christ be honoured,
• Not doing Mahomet an injury,
• Whose power had share in this our victory;
• And since this miscreant hath disgraced his faith,
• And died a traitor both to heaven and earth,
• We will1 both watch and ward shall keep his trunk
• Amidst these plains for fowls to prey upon.
• Go, Uribassa, give it straight in charge.

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Uri.

• I will, my lord.
• [Exit.

Orc.

• And now, Gazellus, let us haste and meet
• Our army, and our brother[s] of Jerusalem,
• Of Soria, Trebizond, and Amasia,
• And happily, with full Natolian bowls
• Of Greekish wine, now let us celebrate
• Our happy conquest and his angry fate.
• [Exeunt.

[1]“Or ZaUt&m. The description of this tree is taken from a fable m the Koran, chap. 37.”Ed. 1826.

[1]I.e. “we desire that both watch,” &c. So 410.—8vo. “and keepe.”