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Until Natolia kneel before your feet.

TAMBURLAINE. Then will we triumph, banquet and carouse;

Cooks shall have pensions to provide us cates,

And glut us with the dainties of the world;

Lachryma Christi and Calabrian wines

Shall common soldiers drink in quaffing bowls,

Ay, liquid gold, when we have conquer'd him, 61 Mingled with coral and with orient 62 pearl.

Come, let us banquet and carouse the whiles.

[Exeunt.]

Enter SIGISMUND, FREDERICK, and BALDWIN, with their train.

SIGISMUND. Now say, my lords of Buda and Bohemia,

What motion is it that inflames your thoughts,

And stirs your valours to such sudden arms?

FREDERICK. Your majesty remembers, I am sure,

What cruel slaughter of our Christian bloods

These heathenish Turks and pagans lately made

Betwixt the city Zula and Danubius;

How through the midst of Varna and Bulgaria,

And almost to the very walls of Rome,

They have, not long since, massacred our camp.

It resteth now, then, that your majesty