The Works of Christopher Marlowe

Tamburlaine Part 2


Act: 3 Scene: 1
Calepinus Cyricelibes, otherwise Cybelius, son and successive heire to the late mighty Emperour Bajazeth, by the aid of God and his friend Mahomet, Emperour of Natolia, Jerusalem, Trebizon, Soria , Amasia, Thracia, Illyrie, Carmonia and al the hundred and thirty Kingdomes late contributory to his mighty father. Long live Callepinus, Emperour of Turky .
I have a hundred thousand men in armes,
Some, that in conquest of the perjur'd Christian,
Being a handfull to a mighty hoste,
Thinke them in number yet sufficient,
To drinke the river Nile or Euphrates,
And for their power, ynow to win the world.
Our battaile then in martiall maner pitcht,
According to our ancient use, shall beare
The figure of the semi-circled Moone:
Whose homes shall sprinkle through the tainted aire,
The poisoned braines of this proud Scythian.