Of Ganges shall his mighty hand extend.
And now, my lords and loving followers,
That purchas'd kingdoms by your martial deeds,
Cast off your armour, put on scarlet robes,
Mount up your royal places of estate,
Environed with troops of noblemen:
And there make laws to rule your provinces.
Hang up your weapons on Alcides' post;
For Tamburlaine takes truce with all the world.
Thy first-betrothed love, Arabia,

Shall be with honour, as beseems, entomb'd
With this great Turk and his fair Emperess.
Then, after all these solemn exequies,

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

TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT.

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,
When he arrived last upon the stage,

Hath made our poet pen his second part,
Where death cuts off the progress of his pomp,
And murd'rous fate throws all his triumph down.-
But what became of fair Zenocrate,

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.*
URIBASSA.

SIGISMUND, King of Hungary.

FREDERICK, Lords of Buda and Bohemia.

PERDICAS, Servant to Calyphas.
GOVERNOR OF BABYLON.
MAXIMUS.

CALLAPINE, Emperor of the Turks.

ALMEDA, his Keeper.

KING OF AMASIA.
PHYSICIAN.

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.