Of Ganges shall his mighty hand extend. Shall be with honour, as beseems, entomb'd We will our rites of marriage solemnize.* The word celebrated occurs in both the old editions before "rites," but may well be dispensed with as regards both the sense and measure. The second part of the bloody conquests of Mightie Tamburlaine with his impassioned fury for the death of his ladie and love the faire Zenocrate: his form of exhortation and discipline to his three Sons, and the manner of his own death. [No date to the 12mo edition, but published, as appears from the printer's preface, at the same time as the first part.] PROLOGUE. The general welcomes Tamburlaine receiv'd, Hath made our poet pen his second part, And with how many cities' sacrifice He celebrated her sad funeral, Himself in presence shall unfold at large. USUMCASANE, early char. 3 forgotten ORCANES, King of Natolia. KING OF JERUSALEM. KING OF TREBIZON D. KING OF SYRIA. GAZELLUS, Viceroy of Byron.* SIGISMUND, King of Hungary. FREDERICK, Lords of Buda and Bohemia. PERDICAS, Servant to Calyphas. CALLAPINE, Emperor of the Turks. ALMEDA, his Keeper. KING OF AMASIA. CAPTAIN. ZENOCRATE, Tamburlaine's Queen. OLYMPIA, the Captain's Wife. * Byron is much more like an English or French than an Oriental name: it is perhaps Bihra or Bir, Anglecised. |