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A20888	The historie of the great emperour Tamerlan VVherein are expressed, encounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, skalings, taking of cities and strong places, defended, and assaulted, with diuerse stratagems of warre, the which this great and renowned warriour hath conducted and accomplished, during his raigne of fortie or fiftie yeares: with other instructions for the warre, which should not be vnknowen of them that would attaine vnto the knowledge of armes. Drawen from the auncient monuments of the Arabians, by Messire Iean du Bec, Abbot of Mortimer. Newly translated out of French into English, for their benefite which are ignorant in that language. by H.M.; Histoire du grand Tamerlan. English	Du Bec, Jean, 1540-1610.; Mildmay, Humphrey, attributed name.	1597 (1597)	STC 7263; ESTC S109956	178,782	270

it was to vndertake this war for the better assuring of his estate seeing the king of China had much gone beyōd his ancient bounds So as our Prince had this iourney in his mind and prepared himselfe therunto he had not otherwise refused their counsell and the wise opinions they propounded vnto him being alwayes obedient vnto reason and not to any other passion and then especially when the question was of warre for the good of his affaires a thing for which he was as much to be cōmēded as for any other vertue whatsoeuer for by others he was esteemed strōg couragious stout but by this here mētioned he was accoūted wise vertuous which maketh kings to be honored admired wherof he that is the owner is Lord of one of the greatest Empires that men can obtaine for the wise man onely hath the dominion thereof And what auaileth it I pray you to conquer abroad when as home-matters are miserablie subiected vnder the f●ry of our foolish passions is it not very hard to cōmand another when thou commandest not thy selfe thou being the slaue of thy follies which do break thee with all their force against the moderate rock of wisdom which houereth about thee mocking at all that thou doest without her Salomon also the king of Israel praied for it so did our Prince often this was the praier he most commonly made vnto God and for this reason he honored greatly the counsel of the wise and respected not their pouerty some wondered that he hauing knowledge of a wise man would send for him vnto his Court and conferring familiarly with him would say vnto him My friend I pray thee let me bestow part of my goods vpon thee and doe thou impart some of thy wisedome with mee Hee was wont to say they presented him with golde and siluer with precious stones with faire and rich moueables where he abounded but that he found fewe which did beautifie his mind with good precepts instructions wherwith to gouerne so manie sundry people whome God had subiected vnder the obedience of his scepter He had in his Court a Christian whom he loued much and euerie one greatlie respected named Axalla a Geneuois by birth brought vp from his youth about his person This man principally did stir him vp vnto great enterprises and notwithstanding his religion hee trusted him Now he had all religion in reuerence so as it did worship one onelie God creator of all things He often said that the greatnes of Diuinitie cōsisted in the sundry kindes of people which are vnder the coape of heauē who serued the same diuerslie nourishing it self with diuersitie as the nature was diuers where it had printed his image God remaining notwithstanding one in his essence not receiuing therin any diuersitie This was the reason that mooued him to permit and graunt the vse of all religions within the Countries of his obedience alwayes prouided as I said before that they worshipped one onely God detesting the idolatrous and strange goddes in so much as he regarded not the diuersitie in religion if they were able to serue him so as this Christian attained vnto great honors and dignities neere vnto him as hereafter you shall heare Now to returne from my digression Our Prince was desirous of warres knowing that he could verie hardly maintaine his owne estate and so manie seruantes whose fingers would tickle if they were not employed in making of warres So he determined to make warre with the king of China who is called the Lord of the world child of the sun which was no smal enterprise But before he would begin the same he sent vnto the said king of China for to demand right for some countries which they cal Hordas abiding places townes or rather countries fit for the feeding of cattell the which this Prince of China had vsurped long before and euen the passages of a riuer called Tachij which is beyond his limits which are walles the which are between the kingdomes of the great Cham and of our Tamerlan builded of purpose by this king of China to defend him from the roades of the Tartarians and forces of our Prince so as this was begunne with the aduise of the great Cham and for his benefite as well as for the Princes Therefore to accomplish his enterprise in the meane time that he attended for the returne of his Embassadors he caused his forces to come forwards from all parts appointing vnto them for the place of meeting his owne at the Horda of Baschir where all his armie assembled and other ayding troopes of the great Cham in the deserts of Ergimul at a certaine day in which place he should ioyne with all his armie The armie of the great Cham consisted of two hundred thousand fighting men wherein were all the braue men of his Court who were accustomed vnto the warres the Emperor which then raigned was old hauing greatly increased his limits and conquered a great countrey so as these men were well trained vp in the warres and accustomed vnto trauaile and paines Now then the Embassadors which were sent returne and informe the Prince of the will of this proud king of the world this king of China who was named so who puffed vp with vaine glorie was astonished how any durst denounce warre against him making this proud answer that Tamerlan should content himselfe that he had left him that which he might haue taken from him and that his armes and forces were of another sort then those of whom he published the victory to bring thereby terror vpon his neighbours This answere being heard our Prince marched directly vnto the armie and gaue order for the conueyance of victuals from all partes sent to hasten forwarde his consederates emparted the answere vnto the Emperour by Embassadours dispatched from him caused the boldnesse of the king of China to be published to make manifest vnto all the world the iustnesse of his cause Before his departure he went to take leaue of his father who endued with a singular fatherly affection said he should neuer see him again and that he hastened vnto his last rest and hauing made solemne praiers ouer the Prince his sonne for his prosperitie kissing him a thousand times drew off his Imperiall ring and gaue it vnto him not asking whither his iourney tended and calling Odmar he bad him farewell recōmēding his faithfulnes vnto his son This was done with a grauity wherof the grace was more diuine then humaine then he departed and drew towards Samarcand where the Empresse his wife remained whom he carried with him as is the custome of that Nation after he had being religious visited the Tombe of his seruant H●lly he caused his soule three dayes to be praied for according to the rites of his law whereupon he presently departed hauing taken order for the well gouerning of his kingdome in his

for the meanest amongst them had much gold about him vpon the trappings of their horse The Lords had such store of precious stones as of nothing more They did bring all the prisoners before the Prince and when the two Allies of the king of China did come the king rose vp and did them great reuerence Then the Prince demanded of him by an interpreter who they were He answered him that they were his Allies and that he lamented more their fortune thē his owne and that he would die with them Now this barbarous king thought the matter should be handled after their maner when as they put to death their prisoners and feed of meat made of them as some of those countries are accustomed to doe Nowe the Prince hauing receiued them curteouslie did assure them of good entertaiment for the which the king of China did shewe himselfe greatly contented The one of them was the king of Chiampa the other of ●anchuichina vndervassals and tributories to the king of China Nowe he was of the age of thirtie yeares hee had a long visage his eyes blacke and great his beard long the which he stroaked often his nose was of a reasonable bignesse hauing a graue behauiour and well beseeming a great king These prisoner-kings did as it were worship in saluting of him and hee keeping his grauitie only commāded them to rise frō the ground He is surely a great Prince and which hath had two hundred famous Cities within his kingdome There be manie mynes of gold and siluer much muske and also of an hearbe which the Christians call Rubarbe There bee in like maner within the kingdome of China fifteene verie large Prouinces the which haue Gouerners It is reported that he hath threesore and ten kings wearing crownes tributaries vnto him We call this region China the which they in their language name Tamé and the people Tangis the which we call Chinois This kingdome doth abound in fish and in great numbers of wilde-foule by reason of the great aboundance of running waters which doe ouerflowe the countrie the which is reasonable temperate they abound greatly in silkes and the meanest are apparelled therewith hauing small quantitie of woll and not vsing the same they haue much cotten and linnen in steed thereof The men do weare their haire long the women combe them they haue as many wiues as they are able to maintaine Next vnto the king there is a Gouernor generall whom they call Tutan the which was the brother vnto the imprisoned king This is the cause wherefore he must not forsake the countrie but he requested his brother to accompanie him vnto this Battaile where they thought assuredlie to ouercome and was so wilfull that he did appoint a Lord in his place vpon whom the king of China did not relie so much as vpon his brother in so much as this made him sad considering the follie which he had committed in suffering him to come with him and to be both of them at one battaile Now for to returne vnto the king of China the Prince hauing assembled his counsell to the end he might be aduised how he should vse his prisoners and the rest of the victorie hee receiued newes by Odmar how that the kings brother was arriued at Quantou the which hee had fortified and that great store of forces did ioyne themselues vnto him This was the cause that the Prince hauing somewhat rested his forces commaunded two thousand Parthian horse to conuey the prisoners vnto Paguinfou and from thence after they had made abode there to passe ouer the mountaines and to remaine at ●urda a Citie of olde time faithfull vnto the Emperors of Scithia and there to keepe them faithfully This charge was giuen vnto Malaxen Lieutenant generall in the charge of Axalla Then the Prince made dispatches vnto the Emperour and to his Lieutenant ouer the Parthians and made them partakers of this great and happie victorie wherein had bene slaine so manie thousandes of the enemies and hee had lost so fewe of his owne I returne vnto the deliberation which the Prince tooke after that hee had discharged himselfe of much carriages the which hee had sent with the king of China before hee would goe anie further forward Nowe hee had also sent to hasten the fortie thousand footmen which should come from Sachetay and thirtie thousand Scithian horse making his account that they should haue come vnto him before the forces of the king of China could oppose themselues against him So the purpose and resolution of the Prince was that it behooued to assault Quantou and to shut vp if it were possible the kinges brother within the same being one of the principall seates belonging vnto the king of China and a citie greatly peopled and strong it was fortie leagues from the place where the battaile was fought But Odmar being aduanced thither would not retire before hee had expresse commandement from the Prince who hauing sent thither pitched his tentes round about the said Citie hauing summoned many small cities the which yeelded themselues wholly vnto the Princes mercie making great lamentation for their king taken and for the estate of their affaires the abasement being verie great throughout all the kingdome for all the diligence the king of Chinas brother could vse for the quieting of their astonished mindes and to exhort euerie one to take new courage Notwithstanding the gentlenesse vsed by the Conquerour made them to take all their losses with patience and because it was also reported that hee had vsed the king most friendlie and all the prisoners for the Prince cause his clemencie to bee published vnto all that would vouchsafe to cast themselues into his armes as he would also shewe his sharpnesse vnto all those which disobeyed him and would withstand his commandementes For it was the Princes custome to pardon the humble and to punish the proud throughlie knowing that reward and punishment are the thinges which doe greatlie increase estates And Princes must learne this as a generall rule that whensoeuer they vse those which are rebels vnto them as those that are obedient they shall receiue hurt thereby because euerie one will take libertie of ill doing seeing that the one and the other are equallie weighed and regarded by the Prince who ought to be a iust iudge and moderatour of euerie ones deserts Now our Prince had besides another maxime that is he straightly kept that which hee promised although his estate depended therupon if his word were once passed And you must beleeue that none of his seruants durst be so bold as to make request and speake to the contrarie so as this same being spread amongst the barbarous people they were assured when they had once his word now you must know that this is of no small importance vnto a victorious Prince to make his victorie perfect But to returne vnto my purpose our Prince hauing caused praiers to be celebrated

out for hauing aduanced two hundred horse with these souldiers they mingled themselues within the army and being followed by Stucan he made himselfe maister of that which was the safegard of the army the which were their light horsemen and there were slaine of them more then three thousand men of those which were aduanced forward the rest of the army being on horsebacke did not pursue our men in their retraite thinking it had bene our whole army the which caused them to hold the bridle with their footmen chusing rather to loose their stradiots then the substance of the army In the morning they were greatly astonished whē they vnderstood our Army was as yet ten leagues off and that they were but three thousand horse the which had put so great disorder in the campe The Bassa was determined to stay for our army and if it were possible to weary the same before he came vnto the battell being aduertised that we had not victuals at our owne pleasure Prince Axalla being come within fiue leagues of the enemies army he intrenched his army and made a shew of abiding there Now he was very desirous to view the situation of the enemies Campe and hauing one day aduanced all his Army in a playne within two leagues of the enemies Army he would set forward for to view their countenance and the place where they were encamped the which he hauing done he perceiued the way by which their victuals did come vnto them and raysing the Campe he determided either to compell them for to fight or else to lodge betweene them and the sea for to cut off the way of their victuals for he was well aduertised of the enemies purposes and being vncamped he marched in battell array directly towardes the enemy as if he meant to haue assaulted him within his trenches In the meane time he caused his Armie to be lodged within a league of him Now the Bassa who had not stirred out of his Campe knew not what was our purpose our armie hauing bene in battell array within the view of their Campe aboue eight houres in the meane time our souldiers lodged The enemie who did not thinke any such matter was greatly astonished when some of his men came and declared vnto him that we were lodged so neare vnto him and did hinder their victuals and hauing assembled the chiefe Captaines of his Army to haue their aduise hee determined to come vnto the fight and giue a battell if he did perceiue that our purpose was to hinder him from the sea he would yet indeuor as much as he could to procure that his victuals might come making triall by scoutes to do the same So the day being come the Bassa caused sixe thousand horse to issue out for to discouer our purposes giuing cōmandement vnto thē whō he sent to hazard nothing but to retire if they did see that any did stop the passage so as it falling out that the Captaine of our side the which had this charge was this day on horseback with x. thousand horse who vpon the first alarum of his enemie did beate them brauely into their Campe the which the Bassa perceiuing and that it was the purpose of our mē he supposed hee could no longer shun the battell And the same night he began to approach vnto the point of their campe neare vnto a mountaine the which was nearer vnto them then vs to lodge there in parcels and also to the ende we should not lodge there at all the which they did foresee might greatly preiudice them if we should win the same before them So in the morning Prince Axalla had certaine newes that the enemies Army did dislodge the which he desiring to descrie mounted on horsebacke and aduanced forward with some twentie thousand horse for to behold their dislodging determining to set vpon them if hee saw cause and followed them to take an occasion to do it vpon their lodging But it fell out otherwise for seeing their countenance hee supposed presently what they would do and hauing called vnto him the Prince of Thanais and Sinopes hee sayd vnto them that he thought it not conuenient to suffer the enemie for to intrench vpon this mountaine for the discommodities we should receiue thereby For this cause hee commaunded Sinopes to set vpon them with twentie thousand men and to hinder them from this mountaine assuring himselfe that if he did win it hee should haue the victorie of the battell most assured Now the place was such as the horsemen could by no meanes do anie seruice there by reason of a marrish that was at the foot of the same mountaine the which did stretch a good league but the footmen did easily march thither Prince Axalla assured himselfe hee had good footmen and that Sinopes who was desirous of honor would not omit to giue a strong assault vpon the enemies vpon this occasion So our army being wholly ranged in battell arraie Prince Axalla caused all his footmen to aduance forward hee determined to fight on foot if the enemies did wilfully attempt the same mountaine and hauing cōmanded the Prince of Thanais to keepe himselfe at the head of all the horsemen who were in battell array he aduanced forward for to succor Sinopes in good time who aduanced lustily with twenty thousand men only Prince Axalla hauing aduised with himselfe as the best to cause them to march along by a litle hill and that by this way they shold do their endeuors by surprising of the enemy who could not perceiue them so as they should as soone feele their blowes and assault as see their persons this being a Maxime that an enemy throughly viewed is halfe conquered this was the cause that the same became so great an astonishmēt vnto the enemy to see himself assaulted not knowing whether it were with all the footmen or part of the same The enemies Army was at the other end of the marrish we were within the view the one of the other but euen as our men did giue this onset you might haue seene their whole army stir for to resist the strong force of our men the which continued a good houre The Bassa who was a discreet Captaine commanded all the footmen he had to aide thē which where vpon this mountaine and although our men vpon the first fury had won the top of the mountaine so as then the enemies did fight on foot comming vp the which was a great aduantage for our men Axalla perceiuing this aide mount vp commanded also 20000 of our men to oppose themselues against this new troupe which moūted and after them he sent 25000 more and came to this point that he himselfe alighted determining for to leade the third succour saying that as soone as he should perceiue another great troupe of footmen for to stirre it was his turne to march The Prince of Thanais vnderstanding that he would go thither in person sent to beseech him for to suffer

which he had with ripe deliberation resolued of The which maketh mee beleeue that he had very good aduertisement and that he waited the oportunitie Now he gaue order for matters behind him to the end that no newes might be spread of his armie but rather that they should thinke that hee had passed the mountaine and had vppon his necke the armie of the king of China which was betweene the mountaines him thus Calix thought greatly to trouble him when he rose in armes against him and did thinke that he had already assaulted the wall which the king of China had made against the Tartarians But Calix was thrust forward rather with a desire of ruling then beginning the same with any wisedome making too great hast as his enterprise was craftily cōducted so was it cunningly discouered and all fit remedies prepared therefore whensoeuer the same should happen As soone then as the Prince was aduertised of the pretences of Calix thus discouered he marched one dayes iourney forward to the end he might approch vnto Calibes and impart the same vnto him assembling all his followers counsell together he discoursed vnto them in this manner I nothing doubt but that all of you wil aduise me to desist from this enterprise considering the armies which be raised vp within the hart of that coūtrey where you all desire I should raigne where with the full consent of all the chiefest seruants of the Emperour my Lord vncle I haue bene receiued and ought not I then helpe him to punish the rashnes of Calix who alone hath disdained to obey me allow of my promotion vnto the Empire of the Tartarians But it behooueth vs also to make prouision against this enemy which we haue before vs who seemeth to be rather a defender then an assaulter according to the aduertisements we haue receiued of his preparations We must also thinke that Calix hath not attēpted this without hope of being supported by the king of China against whom he did see that wee did arme our selues for to require iustly that which belōgeth vnto vs. There is good cause therfore we foresee how to hinder him from entring into our kingdome whilst I shalbe busied in reducing this bold fellow vnto his dutie We must therefore strengthen our borders and leaue all my munition and prouision of victuall in this place the armie which wee shall leaue here will spend them we will carrie backe with vs all our artilleries and engins vnto a safe place we will leaue vpon the borders fiue and twentie thousand Parthian horse fortie thousand of those sent by the Emperour my Lord and Vncle and a hundred thousand footmen vnder the charge of Calibes of whose faithfulnesse I am most assured I will likewise aduertise Samay to set forwards towards me with fiftie thousand horse as soone as he can and my self with all diligence will march forwards with the rest of my armie towards this bold fellow when I shall be aduanced I will attend the counsell and commaundemen of the Emperour His discourse was allowed of although Calibes was desirous to accompany him notwithstanding he thought obedience was better thē sacrifice They which had not vnderstood of the doings of Calix thinking this a matter of great importance there was in the Counsell contrarie opinions the one saying it was necessarie to assure matters at home the other party that it was a great enterprise to seeke to make head with an armie against the king of China in the meane while to haue so daungerous a Cancer within his realme as was the reuolting of the people but these men entred not into the most secret counsell of the Prince who had long since foreseene the practises of Calix hauing a great armie most readie to ioyne with him vpon the first commaundement sent vnto the same neither did they any thing at all perceiue that the Prince Tamerlan how much disquieted soeuer he made shew to be was very glad to haue occasion ministred to enter with armes into the state by him newly obtayned so as the same might seeme iust in the eyes of the Emperour his vncle For by this meanes he should take possession of his gift obtaine the good will of his souldiers and be well assured to punish this fellow so thoroughly as others which might peraduenture be tickled with the same humor would take therby example therefore wisely had he separated the forces of the Tartarians For what face soeuer Calibes set on the matter he harkened what wold become of Calix that he might likewise make some cōmotion there was left with him to command ouer the Parthians the Prince of Thanais without whom he could not doe any thing for that he led the auantgard Thus was the army deuided in two parts the king of China remaining long before he was aduertised of all this and thought he had all the forces both of the Tartarians Parthians vpon his armes so as this was of no small importance to fauor our affaires for Tamerlan had especially giuen commandemēt that the passages which are easily gotten might as diligently be kept to the end that the king of China should not be aduertised of the tumult Then Tamerlan set forward his auauntgard vnder the leading of Odmar he promised vnto himselfe shortly a happie successe in his affaires and aduertised the Emperour of all but it came vnto him when he was sicke And surely it was high time for Tamerlan to march forward or else all had beene reuolted so leauing his footemen he made great iourneyes Now during the time that hee had bene aduertised and made his abode to consult which was the space of two monethes Calix hauing presented himselfe with a hundred thousand fighting men before Cambalu a very great citie and chiefe of the Prouince of Catayo the inhabitants thereof came out to meete him and did also receiue him with all the ioy that might be They had sent likewise to Euinsay where the Emperour was at that time to intertaine and assure him of their obedience and that they did rise vp onely because they would not bee subiected vnto the Parthians They had with one cōsent also sworne not to acknowledge Tamerlan for their Emperour but they did beseech the Emperour that they might rather receiue Calix to the end said they the greatnesse of the Tartarians should not bee buried within the straite bounds of the Parthians But as soone as they heard that Tamerlan approached it did bring much hinderance vnto the affaires of Calix for these confederates so lincked together made full reckoning that his absence would be for the space of eight or tenne moneths at the least what prosperity soeuer he were like to haue in his enterprise but he had plotted out the businesse for them in another sort Euen as it is often seene that when a Schoole-master entreth on a sudden into the schoole with a rod in his hand when as the

him euen vnto the sea coastes Three or foure dayes being spent the Prince tooke aduise for to passe ouer the riuer with his horsemen but not to aduance any further then 3. or 4. leagues beyond the water only he meant to hinder the kings brother from attayning vnto the riuers foord hauing receiued aduertisement that he would passe ouer for to succour Quantoufou As soone as the enemie vnderstood newes of the passing ouer of our army it did greatly astonish him therevpon retired ten great leagues frō vs bending towards the sea side into a hillie countrie and vneasie for our horsemen where he thought to find place of securitie for his armie and where the same might be intrenched within the mountaines And there at leasure he tooke aduise of the greatest about him to determine what offers they might make vnto the Emperour as well for the kings ransome as also for to assure that which yet remained for to make a peace the which must needs be had were it by gold or siluer seeing that bloud could doe no good therein which had not beene spared that there was no more to be done and that the goddes were offended Therefore it behooued with them to acknowledge Tamerlan they for to fauour him and we to serue him and hauing sent to demaund safetie for to 〈◊〉 the Prince graunted so much vnto them for such as would come vnto him In this meane time Quantoufou yeelded it selfe into the hands of Axalla who caused the garrison to come out of the same receiued the inhabitants into the Princes protection and they which would might remaine therein vnarmed and he entred thereinto with the ioy of all the inhabitants who did determine to receiue the Emperor into the same with all the magnificence that might be He caused 30000. men of war to enter thereinto vnto whō was money deliuered for to maintain thē there vntill such time as all the footmen shold receiue pay for 3. moneths due vnto them whereof the inhabitants of Quantoufou did furnish the Prince to the summe of eight hundred thousand Tentins the which do amount vnto foure hundred and fifty thousand crownes or therabout The Prince at this present sent me vnto Axalla whom I found feasting of his Captaines and souldiers staying for the cōmandement that I brought vnto him the which was to remaine within Quantoufou and to cause all his footmen to set forward directly vnto him the which was done by the Prince to the end it should strike a greater terror into the minds of the enemies who seeing all his footmen arriued he supposed they would nothing doubt Quantoufou being taken but that he would march forward insomuch as he hoped this would greatly aduance his affaires considering the estate they were in I returned from Quantoufou vnto the Emperour hauing seene a beautifull and great Citie well fortified and wonderfully peopled and round about it there was a fruitfull countrey Our armie had beene two monethes and a halfe before it and I thinke we should haue continued there one monethes longer for therein was no want of any thing but of men because many of them had beene slaine since the siege beganne This was the cause wherefore the Princes brother would haue conducted some thither was the occasion that made him aduance forward Many of our men were also dead by reason of the intemperatenesse of the aire and the heat of sommer the which we had passed wherwith our men had not bin accustomed so as those souldiers which we looked for were necessarie for vs to aduance forward if wee purposed to attempt any other thing Axalla who remained therein emploied all the paines he possibly could to repaire the walles and to winne the inhabitants good will vnto the Prince for not one of them was departed with the Gouernour for to serue the king of China he leading with him out of the citie but thirteene thousand of thirtie thousand souldiers some beeing dead the other remaining with the inh●bitants vnarmed for to receiue the law of the conquerour It was a thing very worthie the noting of their new Lord who was to commaund them to marke so great lightnesse and inconstancie in forgetting so soone him which had maintayned them he and his auncestors by the space of two hundred yeares with great pacience and quiet and preserued their wealth in great prosperitie This is the cause that they which gouerne common-wealthes ought to thinke that the peoples good will is certainely to be esteemed but withall they must not too much trust therunto This was the cause that Axalla marked that saying that hee was troubled to deuise how this great multitude might be contained in their fidelitie if wee should receiue any disfauour and commanded me to speake vnto the Prince for to treat before his Armie were any more decayed and after that it was very necessarie his wisdome should consider how to assure this citie in his absence the which was so peopled and the people thereof being so light and inconstant Now as I haue said there was almost a yeare spent since we began this enterprise and our men were greatly diminished the fall of the leafe also drawing neere the which for the most part doth yeeld euill fruit vnto armies after their trauels by the changing of humors the which engender sicknesse And this appeared alreadie within our armie which caused the Prince to consider of many things and not without cause he doubted also some change within his owne countrie the which long absences do often cause the honour being no lesse in preseruing of that alreadie gotten then in conquering of the same Our Prince also did neuer refuse honourable conditions the which he did more esteeme being obtained by peace then warre He thought that his conquest consisting of almost halfe the kingdome and in making the king tributarie for the rest he should haue sufficient wherewith to bridle him if at any time hee should deale badly and would thereof be well aduised and especially he hoped to assure the same so well as their lightnesse should be throughly punished at what time soeuer they would vse it He did thinke it conuenient if they came vnto profitable conditions for his aduantage euen as the conquered doe yeeld vnto the conquerors for to resolue himselfe to border his conquests on this side Thus the Embassadors being arriued who were of the kings chiefest vassals Tamerlan receiued them with all human●tie causing his greatnesse to appeare vnto them and therewithall the agilitie of his horsemen to make thē see with their eyes that it would be the destruction of the Chinois name if he proceeded any further So hauing saluted the Emperor with all reuerence they vttered their Embassage vnto him which was that the kings brother had sent them vnto him to treat for two causes the one was for the liberty of their king the other for preseruation of their country that he had vnderstood of his accustomed humanity that

obedience of fidelitie between his hands The nearest gaue hostages for the other further off the Prince contented himselfe with their faith and with the outward signes of their good willes Behold how euery one came to acknowledge this new Lord he would haue the great enlargemēt of the bounds of his Empire appeare vnto the world Now the Prince had a desire more then he vsed to haue to see the sweetnes of his natiue country age bringing vnto him a desire to rest himselfe And he was wont to say that he had heard the Emperor his father declare that the fauor of fortune was at his period vnto a man of 45 years of age for any increasing that it behooued after that time to study how to preserue it not any more to augment the same because fortune doth often change her countenance like vnto that of man the which doth become wrinckled old He had moreouer to perform the building of Samarcād where he meant to eternize his memorie the which he greatly desired so as he was curious to search in all parts artificers skilfull men for to send thither all the faire people he could find in any place where he was the cōqueror In this very place he said that he would make his tombe where he had receiued breath weighing it in a iust equall ballance to deliuer vnto the earth the same which it had brought forth without vsing any ingratitude vnto the same And he being one day demanded by a Pagan vnto whō he made this discourse and who beheld his stately tombe where hee would build one for his soule The Prince shewed vnto him heauē saying that it should returne to heauen from whence it did come for this same said he is a parcel of the high God And seeing we are come vnto this matter I will speake a word therof by the way which was that being one day reprehēded by one of his great Priests because he did not constraine with the sword all religions to imbrace his Ah my friend said hee I will neuer do it for I cannot beleeue but God is delighted with the diuersity of religions hating onely those which are without any religion and my self would willingly haue root●d out from the face of the earth such kind of people but not the other I beleeue the fashiō I vse in praying vnto God is the most acceptable vnto him therfore I serue him in this maner This is the cause wherfore I suffer within my dominiōs euery one to worship God in any maner whatsoeuer so as his principall end be ●o honor and not to despise him I haue said this by the way seeing I write this history for you it is verie cōuenient I declare vnto you what his religiō was This was his maner also that whensoeuer he did speake of God it was with so great reuerēce that he durst not almost lift vp his eyes alo●t so fearfull was he of the soueraigne maiestie of all men I did neuer see any more fearfull of the diuinitie He was also wont to say that euerie one should continue in that wherin he was borne and first instructed if it were of that religion as serued one only God Our Prince had so good condicions so agreeable vnto euerie one that it shall bee hard for me to vtter and declare them vnto posteritie neither can I sufficiently commend them nor liuelie represent them in that perfection I desire as I haue vndertaken for to do Now for to returne againe vnto our historie the Emperor receiued newes of Calibes marching forward and of receiuing his great Chamberlain into his Armie We looked for his comming with great deuotion being daily desirous to return after we had run so many forrtunes of all kinds and the Prince hauing subdued and brought vnder his obediēce so many sundrie people Axalla was commanded to march towards vs and the whole Army was summoned from all parts for to assemble themselues together The Prince carried away from Alexandria euen to the number of seuen or eight thousand men and put thereinto for to inhabite other people whom he had brought from sundry places he left therein sixe thousand horsmen and tenne thousand footmen he appointed a sufficient Gouerner vnder Calibes who arriued there presently The Emperour after he had declared vnto him his pleasure and appointed what he should doe the Armie was commanded to set forward directlie towardes Caire the Prince hauing left within Alexandria Zamolzan a man of great reputation to bee Lieutenant generall vnder Calibes The number of forces left by the Prince vnto the said Gouerner was fortie thousand horse and fifty thousand footmen whereof part were dispersed into all the strong places and forts and principallie all along the sea side the rest were left in the plaine fieldes towards Alexandria where Zamolzan commāded them Staying vntill such time as the Prince were departed from Caire whether he did go for to conduct Calibes whom as I haue said the Emperour had appointed for to command ouer all Syria and Egipt together with the countries newly conquered in Libia and Barbary Then the Emperour after he had taken order for all things belōging vnto the preseruation of his new conquest perceiuing that euerie one of those countries did like well of his gouernment acknowledging his great mildnesse and great Iustice obserued euerie where it seemed that euerie one did like well of this change to be gouerned by so victorious a Prince and whose power was so great for to de●end them So after hee had receiued the solemne oth of the people as well of Alexandria of Caire and other Cities of all Syria and the bordering countries we began to set forward our Auauntguard and the Battaile with the Prince of Tha●●●● So the Emperour dis●issed Calibes after hee had instructed him after what fashion he would haue those kingdoms gouerned ouer the which he had giuen him charge and himself hauing friendly committed them vnto God not as a maister but like a companion he seemed to be sorrie for to leaue them destitute of his presence The Prince himselfe with few returned vnto Ierusalem where he remained eleuen dayes for to visite daily the Sepulcher of Iesus Christ the God of the Christians and was curious to bring away great quantitie of the earth from that place saying that hee would honor therwith the places of deuotion within his new Citie He was also desi●o●s for to ●ee the 〈◊〉 of Salomon his Temple saying that he wold cause one to be builded like vnto that at Sa●aroand In like sor● did he wonder at Ierusalem the seate of D●uid● kingdome and of that great Salomon hee lamented the ruines thereof for that he did not see them fullie in their former beautie so greatly did the deuotion vnto all holinesse conduct him He onlie despised the Iewes which had committed so cruell a murther against him who came to saue them The Emperour hauing this

all our munitions be there wee must in that place my souldiers and friendly followers passe ouer the rest of winter our cōpanions look for vs. The enemie is secure and looketh not for vs at this season of the yeare for he perceiueth that our Armie which is there is not sufficient for offence but only for defence You shall receiue double pay the better to furnish you against the iniurie of cold and as we shall be cloathed with double garmēts I hope we shal be also apparelled with double glorie Let vs march on merrily I my self will go with you and be companion of your glorie After he had thus spoken vnto his souldiers they all cried One God in heauen and one Emperour on the earth and bowing downe al their heads in token of humilitie they shewed how agreeable they were to obey that which he commanded Thus euerie one returned into his tent where they abode yet eight dayes more The Prince sent back again Zamai vnto Sachetay with some fiue and twenty thousand horse and fiftie thousand footmen for the saftie of his estate in those parts Thus after prayers were sayd all the Armie being assembled together in the presence of the Prince according to the custome of our Emperours our Armie began to march forward He forgat not likewise to dispatch one vnto the Emperour his vnkle to giue him vnderstanding of all this resolution the which he verie well liked of The Prince by the same messenger did beseech him to send vnto him in the spring of the yeare some fiftie thousand men to repaire his Armie and certaine money also for the payment of his men of warre which he graunted him Moreouer the conducting of good store of warlike munition plentie of victuals for to renew ours for this war was principally enterprised for the profit and greatnesse of the Tartarians for the importance which the losse of the Lordships of Paguin Quifu was vnto them wherby the king of China had greatly strēgthened and assured his estate in so much as he might at his pleasure enter vpon the Tartarians and the Tartarians could not enterprise against him without great forces for that hee had caused a wall to be made between the spaces of the mountains which was fortie leagues long so as they were defended hereby frō the ordinary incursions the which continually did greatly enrich thē because they brought much cattel through the same wherin the cūtry of China doth greatly abound by reason it is situated in a temperate aire being neither too hot nor cold This was the cause that made the Emperour his vnkle to desire this warre whom our Prince according to his duty would to the vttermost of his power gratifie as also his new subiects So we began to march and in eight thirty dayes we arriued at Cipribit the Army hauing found great discōmodities there had we newes of Clibes who was very glad to vnderstand how the affayrs had passed he came to visite the Prince who shewed vnto him a very good countenance and gaue him particular vnderstanding of his determination and vnderstood at large of Calibes al that had passed within the kingdom of China The next day the Prince mounted on horsebacke and came vnto Pazanfou where the forces commaunded by Calibes were at that present the which had often fought with and tried the forces of the Chinois but found thē much inferiour vnto their owne The Emperour caused a generall reuiewe to bee made of all the forces which were vnder Calibes and after hee beheld the countenances of these soldiers throughout all their ranks he caused thē to muster to receiue money euery one crying God saue the victorious inuincible Emperour according to their custome I had forgotten to declare vnto you how the Prince of Thanais who was left to command ouer the Parthian nation by the Prince at such time as Calibes went to meet him was left in the army to commād it where being desirous to shew his courage had made warre and meeting with foure thousand horse of China led by the king of China his brother he so allured thē to him that hauing entrapped thē he fought with and ouerthew them bringing a great number of horse and spoiles away and there remained dead vpon the ground fiue or sixe hundred the enemies being retired in disorder if the night had not bene hee had obtained a most notable victorie He had for this good fortune much honour at the arriuall of his Prince and he had also daylie greatlie wearied the Chinois with ordinarie incursions hee was sonne vnto one of the Princes sisters they greatlie honored him as wel for his vertues as the place frō whēce he was descēded He was as yet but young his father being dead old who had worthily serued the Prince as you haue heard against the Moscouites commaunding ouer the arereward who was notwithstanding a most sufficient politick Captaine Now he was desirous of glorie during the abode which he had made being the formost on the enemies fide and with great diligence had marked the wall and the places by the which he might enter by force and sent many spies into the countrey of China by certain litle wayes that were within the mountains who aduertised him of all He had also gained through his courtesie a Lord of the same mountaines called the Lord of Vauchefu who ruled a great Countrey with whom he had so well profited that he made him desirous of a new master and to submit himselfe vnto the Emperour receiuing daily great discommodity by the warres which the Tartarians and Chinois made so as he comming to visite the Prince of Thanais he assured him of his desire to doe the Prince seruice and to helpe him in the warre against the Chinois the which the Prince of Thanais had wisely cōcealed frō Calibes But as soone as the Prince was arriued hee imparted the same vnto him the which made Tamerlan desirous to haue some speech with him so that as soone as the Prince had receiued commandement from the Emperour hee sent vnto Vauchefu to aduertise him of the Princes arriuall and of the commaundement which he had receiued whereof the other was very glad and hauing appointed a day the Prince tooke his iourney without stirring of the army into the campe of the Prince of Thanais which was neere vnto the riuer of Languenne whither he had caused this foresaid Lord to come who met him there The Prince hauing spoken with him by his interpreters hee assured him of much friendship and the said Lord him of great fidelitie and seruice and after many promises made by the Prince vnto him for his greatnesse and quiet he discouered vnto him a passage by the which hee assured him of entrance into the kingdom of China with facility to set vpō the forces of the king of China which were appointed for safegard of the wall the which as I

haue said contained fortie leagues a matter which gaue cause of good aduisement vnto the Prince for Calibes who was an old Captaine found it a matter of great difficultie to go through this passage by force according to the view he had taken thereof and had caused the same to be reuiewed by others For it was carefully kept by the kings forces who was not wearie to be mounted on horsebacke assuring himselfe that fiftie thousand men the which he had placed for the guarde of the wall were sufficient to stoppe all that would enterprise to force the same So this Lord much made of and gayned thorough the good countenance of the Prince was a great furtherance vnto the good successe of this enterprise Then the Prince after he had heaped vpon him gifts of faire horses rich furres and other rare things he willed him to vtter that which he had to say vnto him This Lord spake then in this manner Know my Lord that it is but losse of time to thinke that with your armes you shold be able to force the wall which the Chinois haue built against the incursions of your subiects the defendants haue too much aduantage therein I doubt not of your souldiers stoutnesse of their courage I know you haue cōquered many Nations with them and that whatsoeuer you commaund thē they will die or do the same I know you haue great and wise Captaines with you that your person is only of all the world worthie to commaund them but all this will be but in vaine against the wall of the Chinois where I assure you there are fifty thousand men to keep it and you cannot stay there so short a time but there will come thither fiftie thousand more led by the Xianxi who hath such a commaundement The king of China will himselfe march forward also who will giue you battell with two hundred thousand horse and as many footemen After you haue fought I beleeue that the fortune and valour of your men may obtaine the victorie the which will cost you deare but for to shew vnto you how much the reputation and mildnesse of your men hath bound me vnto them I will shew you a meanes by the which you may cause fiftie thousand men to enter into the kingdome of China whom I my selfe will conduct and they shall be on them which keepe the wall in a manner as soone as they shall perceiue it In the meane time you shall cause your men to go vnto a place that I will tell you which will be very discommodious vnto the Chinois by reason of a mountaine ouer against them which you must cause them to win for I assure my selfe that when they shall perceiue your souldiers to be passed they will loose their courage and you may easily win the passage for to fauour those men of yours which shall be passed ouer with me And for to shew vnto you the affection fidelitie of that I speake I will deliuer into your hands an only sonne I haue and two little daughters with my wife I haue also one brother who I am assured will follow me to do you seruice The Prince hauing heard this Lord speake receiued great ioy thereof hoping that his affaires should happily succeede and this he kept very secret for euen the Prince of Thanais knew not the meanes that this Lord had seeing there was onely present the Prince an interpreter and the Prince after he had thus spoken vnto him gratifying him with all hee could possibly this Lord retyred himselfe accompanied with the Prince of Thanais who conducted him backe againe with all the honour that might be So the Emperour returned from thence into his quarter and the next day after he had imparted the whole vnto Odmar and heard Calibes concerning that which he had learned of the departing of the king of China and of his preparation which was great This enterprise seeming hard vnto him after due reuerence yeelded vnto the Prince he spake vnto him in this manner Know my Lord that I am your slaue for to obey you but seeing you require me to giue you an accoūt of all that I know of the estate of the kingdome of China for that I haue remained these sixe moneths vpon the borders by your cōmandement to hinder them from passing the same wherby they might hurt your enterprises I can affirme vnto you that the king of China who raigneth at this present is of great reputation and hath increased the limits of his kingdome more then any of his predecessors he is proud and bold he causeth himselfe to be named of his people Lord of the world All his strength consisteth in this wall opposed against vs the which he hath caused to bee made by reason of the ordinarie roades of our Nation I am of opinion that there be between fiftie and threescore thousand men at the guard of that wall men for the most part trained vp in the garrisons of the king of China and his best souldiers I know no good means to force this wall without great hazard and much losse of your men I haue vnderstood that towards the lake Hogeen you may find more easie entrance into the kingdome but this will be 7. or eight daies iourney for your army and there are many straite places where your army which is great will be long time a passing on the other side this will be a space of time wherein the king of China may giue order for his affaires who supposeth that hee hath not to deale but with me whom you haue left with cōmandement only of defence Yet I thinke this to be most for your aduantage for that victuals will be more easily conducted vnto your armie you know that this is the principall sinew to bring forth a strong and furious combat Therfore vnder correction of your graue and more wise aduise this is as much as I know hereof leauing vnto your selfe for to discourse of the inner parts of the countrey whē we shall haue set foot thereinto we will talke with you of the same The Prince hard him very attentiuely but he knew not at all that which the Prince had further learned insomuch as the Prince who would that his reputation and glorie should be attributed vnto his valour and vnto those of his army what practise soeuer he had in hand and after euerie one had declared his opinion he saied that he hoped the great God the vnitie of whom he would maintaine against such idolaters and his iust right should answere the reasons which do cōtradict his purpose and the valiant arme of his souldiers shall quite ouerthrow whatsoeuer opposeth it self against the same Behold how Princes make themselues wondered at for their forces whereas oftentimes they vse more the Foxes craft then the Lions strength Our Prince would wisely attribute vnto himselfe the reputation of ouercomming by open warre and concealed from his souldiers that which he held