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Since Tamburlaine hath muster'd all his men,

Marching from Cairo 11 northward, with his camp,

To Alexandria and the frontier towns,

Meaning to make a conquest of our land,

'Tis requisite to parle for a peace

With Sigismund, the king of Hungary,

And save our forces for the hot assaults

Proud Tamburlaine intends Natolia.

ORCANES. Viceroy of Byron, wisely hast thou said.

My realm, the centre of our empery,

Once lost, all Turkey would be overthrown;

And for that cause the Christians shall have peace.

Sclavonians, Almains, Rutters, Muffs, and Danes,

Fear 12 not Orcanes, but great Tamburlaine;

Nor he, but Fortune that hath made him great.

We have revolted Grecians, Albanese,

Sicilians, Jews, Arabians, Turks, and Moors,

Natolians, Sorians, 13 black 14 Egyptians,

Illyrians, Thracians, and Bithynians, 15 Enough to swallow forceless Sigismund,

Yet scarce enough t' encounter Tamburlaine.

He brings a world of people to the field,

]From Scythia to the oriental plage 16 Of India, where raging Lantchidol