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But now, my friends, let me examine ye;

How have ye spent your absent time from me?

USUMCASANE. My lord, our men of Barbary have march'd

Four hundred miles with armour on their backs,

And lain in leaguer 54 fifteen months and more;

For, since we left you at the Soldan's court,

We have subdu'd the southern Guallatia,

And all the land unto the coast of Spain;

We kept the narrow Strait of Jubalter, 55 And made Canaria call us kings and lords:

Yet never did they recreate themselves,

Or cease one day from war and hot alarms;

And therefore let them rest a while, my lord.

TAMBURLAINE. They shall, Casane, and 'tis time, i'faith.

TECHELLES. And I have march'd along the river Nile

To Machda, where the mighty Christian priest,

Call'd John the Great, 56 sits in a milk-white robe,

Whose triple mitre I did take by force,

And made him swear obedience to my crown.

]From thence unto Cazates did I march,

Where Amazonians met me in the field,

With whom, being women, I vouchsaf'd a league,