ealthy India,
Were mounted here under a canopy,
And I sat down, cloth'd with a massy robe
That late adorn'd the Afric potentate,
Whom I brought bound unto Damascus' walls.
Come, boys, and with your fingers search my wound,
And in my blood wash all your hands at once,
While I sit smiling to behold the sight.
Now, my boys, what think ye of a wound?

CALYPHAS. I know not [127] what I should think of it;
methinks 'tis a pitiful sight.

CELEBINUS. 'Tis [128] nothing.--Give me a wound, father.

AMYRAS. And me another, my lord.

TAMBURLAINE. Come, sirrah, give me your arm.

CELEBINUS. Here, father, cut it bravely, as you did your own.

TAMBURLAINE. It shall suffice thou dar'st abide a wound;
My boy, thou shalt not lose a drop of blood
Before we meet the army of the Turk;
But then run desperate through the thickest throngs,
Dreadless of blows, of bloody wounds, and death;
And let the burning of Larissa-walls,
My speech of war, and this my wound you see,
Teach you, my boys, to bear courageous minds,
Fit for the followers of great Tamburlaine.--
Usumcasane, now come, let us march
Towards Techelles and Theridamas,
That we have sent before to fire the towns,
The towers and cities of these hateful Turks,
And hunt that coward faint-heart runaway,
With that accursed [129] traitor Almeda,
Till fire and sword have found them at a bay.

USUMCASANE. I long to pierce his [130] bowels with my sword,
That hath betray'd my gracious sovereign,--
That curs'd and damned traitor Almeda.

TAMBURLAINE. Then let us see if coward Callapine
Dare levy arms against our puissance,
That we may tread upon his captive neck,
And treble all his father's slaveries.
[Exeunt.]

SCENE III.

Enter TECHELLES, THERIDAMAS, and their train.

THERIDAMAS. Thus have we march'd northward from Tamburlaine,
Unto the frontier point [131] of Soria; [132]
And this is Balsera, their chiefest hold,
Wherein is all the treasure of the land.

TECHELLES. Then let us bring our light artillery,
Minions, falc'nets, and sakers, [133] to the trench,
Filling the ditches with the walls' wide breach,
And enter in to seize upon the hold.-- [134]
How say you, soldiers, shall we not?

SOLDIERS. Yes, m