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Beats on the regions with his boisterous blows,

That never seaman yet discovered.

All Asia is in arms with Tamburlaine,

Even from the midst of fiery Cancer's tropic

To Amazonia under Capricorn;

And thence, as far as Archipelago,

All Afric is in arms with Tamburlaine:

Therefore, viceroy, 17 the Christians must have peace.

Enter SIGISMUND, FREDERICK, BALDWIN, and their

train, with drums and trumpets.

SIGISMUND. Orcanes, (as our legates promis'd thee,)

We, with our peers, have cross'd Danubius' stream,

To treat of friendly peace or deadly war.

Take which thou wilt; for, as the Romans us'd,

I here present thee with a naked sword:

Wilt thou have war, then shake this blade at me;

If peace, restore it to my hands again,

And I will sheathe it, to confirm the same.

ORCANES. Stay, Sigismund: forgett'st thou I am he

That with the cannon shook Vienna-walls,

And made it dance upon the continent,

As when the massy substance of the earth

Quiver[s] about the axle-tree of heaven?