Enter TAMBURLAINE.
TAMBURLAINE. What, fearful coward, straggling from the camp, When kings themselves are present in the field?">
<181> aspect] So the 8vo.--The 4to "aspects."
<182> sits asleep] At the back of the stage, which was supposed to represent the interior of the tent.
<183> You cannot] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Can you not."
<184> scare] So the 8vo.--The 4to "scarce."
<185> tall] i.e. bold, brave.
<186> both you] So the 8vo.--The 4to "you both."
<187> should I] So the 8vo.--The 4to "I should."
<188> ye] So the 8vo.--The 4to "my."
<189> stoop your pride] i.e. make your pride to stoop.
<190> bodies] So the 8vo.--The 4to "glories."
<191> mine] So the 4to.--The 8vo "my."
<192> may] So the 4to.--The 8vo "nay."
<193> up] The modern editors alter this word to "by," not understanding the passage. Tamburlaine means--Do not KNEEL to me for his pardon.
<194> once] So the 4to.--The 8vo "one."
<195> martial] So the 8vo.--The 4to "materiall." (In this line "fire" is a dissyllable")
<196> thine] So the 8vo.--The 4to "thy."
<197> which] Old eds. "with."
<198> Jaertis'] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Laertis." By "Jaertis'" must be meant--Jaxartes'.
<199> incorporeal] So the 8vo.--The 4to "incorporall."
<200> for being seen] i.e. "that thou mayest not be seen." Ed. 1826. See Richardson's DICT. in v. FOR.
<201> you shall] So the 8vo.--The 4to "shall ye."
<202> Approve] i.e. prove, experience.
<203> bloods] So the 4to.--The 8vo "blood."
<204> peasants] So the 8vo.--The 4to "parsants."
<205> resist in] Old eds "resisting."
<206> Casane] So the 4to.--The 8vo "VSUM Casane."
<207> it] So the 8vo.--Omitted in the 4to.
<208> Excel] Old eds. "Expell" and "Expel."
<209> artier] See note *, p. 18.
"Artier] i.e. artery. This form occurs again in the SEC.
PART of the present play: so too in a copy of verses by
Day;
"Hid in the vaines and ARTIERS of the earthe."
SHAKESPEARE SOC. PAPERS, vol. i. 19.
The word indeed was variously written of old:
"The ARTER strynge is the conduyt of the lyfe spiryte."
Hormanni VULGARIA, sig. G iii. ed. 1530.
"Riche treasures serue for th'ARTERS of the war."
Lord Stirling's DARIUS, act ii. Sig. C 2. ed. 1604.
"Onelye the extrauagant ARTIRE of my arme is brused."
EVERIE WOMAN IN HER HUMOR, 1609, sig. D 4.
"And from the veines some bloud each ARTIRE draines."
Davies's MICROCOSMOS, 1611, p. 56.">
<210> remorseful] i.e. compassionate.
<211> miss] i.e. loss, want. The construction is--Run round
about, mourning the miss of the females.
<212> behold] Qy "beheld"?
<213> a] So the 4to.--The 8vo "the."
<214> Have] Old eds. "Hath."
<215> to] So the 8vo.--The 4to "and."
<216> in] So the 8vo.--The 4to "to."
<217> now, my lord; and, will you] So the 8vo.--The 4to
"GOOD my Lord, IF YOU WILL."
<218> mouths] So the 4to.--The 8vo "mother."
<219> rebated] i.e. blunted.
<220> thereof] So the 8vo.--The 4to "heereof."
<221> and will] So the 4to.--The 8vo "and I wil."
<222> She anoints her throat] This incident, as Mr. Collier
observes (HIST. OF ENG. DRAM. POET., iii. 119) is borrowed
from Ariosto's ORLANDO FURIOSO, B. xxix, "where Isabella,
to save herself from the lawless passion of Rodomont, anoints
her neck with a decoction of herbs, which she pretends will
render it invulnerable: she then presents her throat to the
Pagan, who, believing her assertion, aims a blow and strikes
off her head."
<223> my] Altered by the modern editors to "thy,"--unnecessarily.
<224> Elysium] Old eds. "Elisian" and "Elizian."
<225> do borrow] So the 4to.--The 8vo "borow doo."
<226> my] So the 4to (Theridamas is King of Argier).--The 8vo
"thy."
<227> Soria] See note ?, p. 44.
<228> his] So the 4to.--The 8vo "their."
<229> led by five] So the 4to.--The 8vo "led by WITH fiue."
<230> Holla, ye pamper'd jades of Asia, &c.] The ridicule
showered on this passage by a long series of poets, will
be found noticed in the ACCOUNT OF MARLOWE AND HIS WRITINGS.