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Or else you are not sons of Tamburlaine.

CALYPHAS. But, while my brothers follow arms, my lord,

Let me accompany my gracious mother:

They are enough to conquer all the world,

And you have won enough for me to keep.

TAMBURLAINE. Bastardly boy, sprung 41 from some coward's loins,

And not the issue of great Tamburlaine!

Of all the provinces I have subdu'd

Thou shalt not have a foot, unless thou bear

A mind courageous and invincible;

For he shall wear the crown of Persia

Whose head hath deepest scars, whose breast most wounds,

Which, being wroth, sends lightning from his eyes,

And in the furrows of his frowning brows

Harbours revenge, war, death, and cruelty;

For in a field, whose superficies 42 Is cover'd with a liquid purple veil,

And sprinkled with the brains of slaughter'd men,

My royal chair of state shall be advanc'd;

And he that means to place himself therein,

Must armed wade up to the chin in blood.

ZENOCRATE. My lord, such speeches to our princely sons