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Take all advantages of time and power,

And work revenge upon these infidels.

Your highness knows, for Tamburlaine's repair,

That strikes a terror to all Turkish hearts,

Natolia hath dismiss'd the greatest part

Of all his army, pitch'd against our power

Betwixt Cutheia and Orminius' mount,

And sent them marching up to Belgasar,

Acantha, Antioch, and Caesarea,

To aid the kings of Soria 63 and Jerusalem.

Now, then, my lord, advantage take thereof, 64 And issue suddenly upon the rest;

That, in the fortune of their overthrow,

We may discourage all the pagan troop

That dare attempt to war with Christians.

SIGISMUND. But calls not, then, your grace to memory

The league we lately made with King Orcanes,

Confirm'd by oath and articles of peace,

And calling Christ for record of our truths?

This should be treachery and violence

Against the grace of our profession.

BALDWIN. No whit, my lord; for with such infidels,

In whom no faith nor true religion rests,