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Be pour'd with rigour on our sinful heads,

If we neglect this 69 offer'd victory.

SIGISMUND. Then arm, my lords, and issue suddenly,

Giving commandment to our general host,

With expedition to assail the pagan,

And take the victory our God hath given.

[Exeunt.]

Enter ORCANES, GAZELLUS, and URIBASSA, with their train.

ORCANES. Gazellus, Uribassa, and the rest,

Now will we march from proud Orminius' mount

To fair Natolia, where our neighbour kings

Expect our power and our royal presence,

T' encounter with the cruel Tamburlaine,

That nigh Larissa sways a mighty host,

And with the thunder of his martial 70 tools

Makes earthquakes in the hearts of men and heaven.

GAZELLUS. And now come we to make his sinews shake

With greater power than erst his pride hath felt.

An hundred kings, by scores, will bid him arms,

And hundred thousands subjects to each score:

Which, if a shower of wounding thunderbolts

Should break out of the bowels of the clouds,