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A33328	The life of Tamerlane the Great with his wars against the great Duke of Moso, the King of China, Bajazet the Great Turk, the Sultan of Egypt, the King of Persia, and some others ... : wherein are rare examples of heathenish piety, prudence, magnanimity, mercy, liberality, humility, justice, temperance, and valour.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1653 (1653)	Wing C4535; ESTC R3775	50,971	60

so noble a Prince as the Greek Emperor into his subjection He answered Even the same cause which moved thee to invade me namely the desire of glory and sovereignty But wherefore then said Tamerlane doest thou use such cruelty towards them that thou overcomest without respect of age or sex That did I said he to strike the greater terror into mine enemies Then did Tamerlane aske him if he had ever given thanks to God for making him so great an Emperor No said he I never so much as thought upon any such thing Then said Tamerlane It s no wonder that so ungrateful a man should be made a spectacle of misery For you saith he being blind of an eye and I lame of a leg was there any worth in us that God should set us over two such great Empires to command so many men far more worthy then our selves But said Tamerlane what wouldest thou have done with me if it had been my lot to have faln into thy hands as thou art now in mine I would said Bajazet have enclosed thee in a Cage of Iron and so have carried thee up and down in Triumph thorow my Kingdome Even so said Tamerlane shalt thou be served And so causing him to be taken out of his presence turning to his followers he said Behold a proud and cruel man who deserves to be chastised accordingly and to be made an example to all the proud and cruel of the world of the just wrath of God against them I acknowledge that God this day hath delivered into my hands a great enemy to whom therefore we must return thanks which he caused publikly to be performed the same day for the battel was ended about four a clock and there were diverse hours yet of day-light The next day he caused the dead to be buried where amongst the rest was found the body of the prince of Ciarchan dead in the middest of the Janizaries where he lay enclosed with their dead bodies shewing that he dyed not unrevenged whose untimely death Tamerlane much lamented causing his dead body to be Enbalmed and with two thousand horse and diverse Turkish prisoners chained together to be conveyed to Samercand untill his coming thither All other dead bodies were with all honour that might be buried at Sennas This great bloody battel was fought in the yeer of our Lord 1397. not far from mount Stella where formerly the great king Mithridates was by Pompey the great in a great battel overthrown It continued from seven a clock in the morning till four in the afternoone victory as it were all the while hovering with doubtful wings over both Armies as uncertain where to light until at length the fortune of Tamerlane prevailed whose wisdome next unto God gave him that days victory for that the politick tiring of the strong forces of Bajazet was the safeguard of his own whereas if he had gone unto the battel in one front assuredly the multitude finding such strong opposition had put it self into confusion whereas this successive manner of aiding his men made them all unto him profitable The number of the slaine is variously reported The Turkes themselves say that Bajazet lost there his noble son Mustapha with two hundred thousand of his men and Tamerlane not many fewer Others say that the Turkes lost about sixty thousand and Tamerlane not past twenty thousand But likely it is that the carnage was very great in so long a fight between two such Armies as probably never before met a in field together By this dayes event is plainly seen the uncertainty of worldly things and what small assurance even the greatest have in them Behold Bajazet the terror of the world and as he thought superior to fortune in an instant by the event of one battel thrown into the bottom of misery and despaire and that at such time as he thought least of it even in the middest of his greatest strength It was three dayes before he could be pacified but as a desperate man still seeking after death and calling for it Neither did Tamerlane after he had once spoken with him at all afterwards use him courteously but as of a proud and insolent man made small account of him And to manifest that he knew how to curb the haughty made him to be shackled in fetters and chaines of Gold and so to be shut up in an Iron Cage made like a grate that he might be seen on every side and so carried him up and down as he passed thorow Asia to be made a scorn and derision to his own people over whom he had before Tyrannized And to his further disgrace upon festival dayes he used him for a footstool to tread upon when he mounted on horseback and at other times scornfully fed him like a dog with fragments that fell from his table A rare example of the uncertainty of worldly honours and greatness that he unto whose ambitious minde Asia and Europe two great parts of the world were too little should now be carried up and down cooped up in a little Iron Cage like a dangerous wild beast How might he have taken up that speech of Hecuba in Seneca Quicunque Regno fidit magna potens dominatur in aula me videat Non unquam tulit Documenta Fors majora quàm fragili loco starent superbi Tamerlane used this severity not so much out of hatred to the man as to manifest the just judgement of God against the arrogant folly of the proud And when on a time he was requested by one of his Nobles to remit some part of this rigour to so great a man he answered I do not use this rigor against him as a King but rather to punish him as a proud ambitious Tyrant polluted with the blood of his own brother and many other innocents This so great an overthrow brought such a fear upon all the Countries possessed by Bajazet in Asia that Axalla being sent before Tamerlane with fourty thousand horse and a hundred thousand foot without carriages to prosecute the victory came without resistance to Prusa whither all the remainder of Bajazet's Army was retired with Bassa Mustapha all places as he marched along still yielding to him Yea the great Bassa with the rest hearing of his coming and not thinking themselves in safety in Asia fled over the streit of Hellespont to Callipolis and so to Hadrianople Axalla coming to Prusa had the City without resistance yielded to him which by his Army was plundred and there with other of Bajazet's wives and concubines he took prisoner the faire Despina Bajazet's best beloved wife to the doubling of his grief Emmanuel Paleologus now hearing of Tamerlanes coming to Prusa sent honourable Ambassadors thither before to Axalla by whō they were entertained till the coming of Tamerlane who received them with all the honor that might be shewing them all his magnificence and the

Prince was advertised of the pretences of Calix he marched one daies journy forward to the end that he might approach unto Calibes who what face soever he set on the matter yet hearkened what would become of Calix that he might likewise make some commotion This Calibes was by Tamerlane made Commander of his Avanguard which consisted of Parthians yet had joyned with him the Prince of Thanais without whom he could not do any thing Tamerlane also gave special commandment that the passages which were not many should be diligently guarded to the end that the King of China should not be advertised of these tumults and so giving to Odmar the leading of his Avanguard he hasted forwards And surely it was high time for him so to do or else all had been revolted for Calix having assembled a hundred thousand fighting men presented himself before the great City of Cambalu chief of the Province of Cathai the inhabitants whereof came out to meet him receiving him with all the joy that might be Tamerlane in his march went to Caindu and from thence to Calatia where he expected to meet with the forces of his native Country of Sachetai yet did he not neglect to send forward his Army towards Cambalu which caused the inhabitants to their great terror to think that all his forces were already on their neck Calix perceiving that the Citizens begun already to repent his entertainment thought it not safe to remaine amongst them and therefore withdrawing himself he sent for his forces from all parts resolving to meet Tamerlane in the field and to put all upon the event and hazard of a battel He drew out of Cambalu fifty thousand men whereof twenty thousand were Citizens the other thirty thousand were the Garison-souldiers placed there by the old Emperor Calix having corrupted their Leaders and so procured them to joyn with him in this revolt In short having assembled all his forces his Army consisted of fourscore thousand horse and one hundred thousand footmen which he gathered from all parts In the mean time Tamerlane's Army marching forward his Scouts which were two thousand horse had news of the Army of Calix which came forward directly towards them of which they speedily advertised the Emperor who thereupon presently sent two thousand horse more to the end that they should keep the passages of a certain River called Brore by which River victuals were conveyed to his Army as also to win time the Prince well knowing that the motions of a civil war are furious at the beginning and that therefore its best to resist slowly alwayes drawing them out at length if it be possible For when means money and victuals fail the people use to be sensible of their faults and to return home The old Emperor sent to him to adventure all upon a battel delivering up into his hands the safety of his life and estate that thereby he might end his daies in peace By this means forces came to Tamerlane on all hands whose Army daily encreased whereas on the contrary the enemies Army was then in its chiefest force and began to feel the want of victuals Calix was about fourty yeers old a Captaine renouned with the great Cham and one of the chiefest in dignity and place about him so that many of the Tartars had alwayes respected him as a person most worthy of the Empire if the glory of Tamerlane and his reputation had not so far exceeded The Armies began to be in view one of another about eight a clock in the morning and many skirmishes began betwixt them before they came to the maine battel The place wherein they met at that time was a great Plain with like advantage on either part Odmar led the Avanguard wherein were fourty thousand horse and eighty thousand foot which he divided into three squadrons the first whereof he sent before him to begin the battel Tamerlane marched in the same order but his squadrons were much stronger The footmen of both made the right and left wings Tamerlane had drawn out six thousand Parthian horsemen and two thousand Tartarian for his Areareguard which he committed to his faithful servant Axalla a man of a great judgement quick of conceit and in great esteem amongst the souldiers although he being a Christian worshipped God in an other manner then they and he had many other Christians with him whom he had drawn from the Georgians and the Euxine Sea who fought with great agility Calix on the other side who was a well spoken man was exhorting and encouraging his souldiers to fight for his Fortune and the liberty of their Nation he divided his Army into three maine Battels himself remaining in the middest encompassed with his footmen and so the Battels joyned where after a terrible fight Calix fell into Axalla's hands being taken fighting valiantly which Axalla caused to be presently proclaimed thorow the Army to the overthrow of the courage of all the adversaries who hereupon immediately fled Calix was kept till the next day and then by a Councel of War was adjudged to death whereupon Tamberlane caused his head to be stricken off the which he sent as a present to the inhabitants of Cambalu The like he caused to be done to all the chief Leaders not out of a cruel disposition but enforced thereto by necessity knowing very well that the way to cut off the foot of Civil War is to punish the heads of the same which as Hydra's grow up too fast After this Tamerlane with his Army marched into the Kingdome of Cathay a Country rich in grass and all kind of pastures abounding with great quantity of beasts and people which knew not what war meant and the Prince gave command that they should not be used as enemies but as his good Subjects and whereas diverse Cities had adheared to Calix they came now and humbled themselves before him craving pardon which he gave them enjoyning them only to provide victuals for his Army which also they willingly did This example of lenity was of no small importance for the appeasing of others which had put all their hope in extremity resolving to sell their lives deer and especially the inhabitants of Cambulu had taken this resolution but being informed of the Emperors clemency they changed their purpose yet as the Army daily approached neerer their fears encreased but Tamerlane was daily informed by his friends in the City that the inhabitants resolved to obey the Conqueror and therefore leaving his Army at Gonsa he only sent thirty thousand to the City which was the ordinary Garison and within two hours after entred the City himself where he was received with great magnificence yet would he not pronounce their pardon but referred all to the old Emperor and to the ordinary course of justice For which end he sent one of his favourites to the old Emperor to certifie him of his victory of the death of Calix

obscured by his cholerick and waiward nature which made him to exceed in cruelty and pride He was also very covetous which qualities made him indeed much feared but little beloved of his souldiers and men of war by whom therefore in his greatest need he was forsaken He used commonly to say That his treasures were his childrens meat and not his souldiers pay which by way of reproach was by a common souldier cast in his teeth when he raged to see himself by them forsaken in that great battel against Tamerlane telling him as he fled That he ran not away but went to seek his pay wherewith to provide his children bread Tamerlane as we said before having conquered Persia used his victory so mildly that as long as he lived the people of that Country were alwayes much affected to him which served him greatly as well for the keeping of Syria as the Sultan of Egypts Empire In his own Country he was received with all Triumphs and expressions of joy that might be the chiefest prisoners marching before him and wheresoever he passed the people assembled themselves by thousands praising and singing his victories The Emperor having spent a moneth or two in Feasts and Triumphs according to his accustomed devotion he vowed a Church and Hospital unto God the most magnificent that might be devised and to beautifie his City of Samercand he searched out all sorts of Handicrafts-men intending to make it as large again as it was and one of the stateliest Cities in the world he peopled it also with so many several Nations as he had brought along with him unto whom he gave liberty to build houses distributing money unto them to do the same giving them also all kind of priviledges and immunities for their encouragement therein He caused also the streets to be plotted out and in one corner of it he built his Church and Hospital His next care was to preserve the good will and love of his famous souldiers whose names he caused to be Registred in a general Muster-Role which he kept by him and daily conferred honours and rewards upon them they not thinking of it in recompence of their former good services thinking that day lost wherein he did not some good Then did he declare the death of the old Emperor to his Councel of which he had received private intelligence and forgat no Ceremony due unto his honor publikely expressing the grief he had conceived for his death Then did he with his ordinary Court consisting of fourty thousand horse and sixty thousand foot set forwards towards Quinsay where his Emperess was And when he came to Cambalu he had intelligence of a battel fought by Odmar against the King of China's Captaine General and how he had pursued his victory having taken three or four great and rich Cities and that the Chinois did again desire peace Hereupon he sent them these Articles That the King of China should pay all the areares of his Tribute That he should come in person to do his homage acknowledging himself a Vassal of his Empire That he should deliever up to him all his Cities saving three such as the Emperor should nominate That he should pay all the charges of the war because he had broken the peace which performed things should be restored to the same state they were in before the war And to gratifie Odmar he sent to him with all magnificence one of his sisters to be his wife When he first entred into Cambalu he was received with all the expressions of joy that might be whereupon he restored to them their priviledges which he had taken from them for their Rebellion with Calix The Emperess being informed of his being there leaving Prince Axalla to govern at Quinsay came to him So that he remained there neer two moneths giving order for all his affaires the rather because it was neer to mount Althay where the Scythian Emperors use to be buried and so causing the body of the old Emperor to be brought thither himself conducted it with all pomp honouring not only the body but all that he had loved in the world and though it was not the custome for women to assist at Funerals yet he took his Emperess along with him who went neer unto the Corpse till they came to the place where it was interred amongst his predecessor After these Ceremonies finished he returned to Cambalu where he spent the winter in Tilts Turnaments Hunting and such like recreations The rather because this place was neer to China whereby he had the fitter opportunity to hear how affaires passed there purposing to go thither in person the next winter if Odmar that summer did not make an end of the wars and if the King of China did not submit himself to his obedience The mark he shot at now being only to keep that which by his valour he had won desiring to spend the rest of his life in reaping the fruites of his hard travels and former labours Now Prince Axalla governed at Quinsay as well to the great contentment of the souldiery as of the inhabitants who out of their abundant love to the Emperor requested Prince Axalla to write importunately to him that his son might be brought up amongst them which at Axalla's request he consented to making him in the absence of his son the Governor of Quinsay from Cambalu even to the Sea which Country contained in it about three hundred Cities besides an infinite number of villages all which was formerly under the government of the old Emperor He delivered also into his charge the Government of his son Shortly after the King of China came to his Court according to the Covenants offered to him where he once again swore obedience to the Emperor who shewed him his greatness the more to make him stand in awe for he knew that this Barbarian would keep no promise longer then it should stand with his own interest This King of China was astonished to behold so many souldiers and the Country so well replenished with people and above all that they used so little curiosity and riches in their apparel especially wondring that the Emperor himself was appareled in mean cloth of one colour without curiosity Shortly after Tamerlane went to Quinsay and by the way was met by Prince Axalla and all the chief Lords and Citizens who entertained him with all the magnificence that might be This City of Quinsay was the fairest and one of the richest in the world and of the most wonderful scituation being divided by many channels of water upon which are framed wonderful and stately buildings having also an infinite number of Bridges It abounds with all kinde of Spices and Merchandizes in great quantity The Citizens presented the Emperor with many rare things judged to be worth two millions in gold with great variety of strange and excellent things Then did the Emperor call for his son that was