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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62223	Tamerlane the Great a tragedy : as it is acted by Their Majesties servants at the Theatre Royal / by C. Saunders, Gent.	Saunders, C. (Charles), fl. 1681.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Banks, John, d. 1706.	1681 (1681)	Wing S741; ESTC R17093	37,675	72

Forget what 's due to Friendship and to Truth Know Wit like Beauty pleases where it harms A Checquer'd Serpent 'tis with Sting and Charms And happy 's he that never thinks at all And far more happy is that lavish Fool That dully wasts his Fortunes on a Whore Than he that splits upon this dangerous Shore Not Spencer dead nor Spencer now alive Cou'd ever find a way by Wit to thrive It is a Dream of Wealth a Fairy Land A fickle Treasure grasp'd like Golden Sand Which as 't is held does vanish through the Hand The Lethargy of the best natur'd Mind A Foe to Business and to all unkind Like that too kills insensible and sure For he with Verse diseas'd does still the more Court his lov'd Plague and itches to be poor A Mark where vile Pretenders lose their aim And ev'n the best get but an empty Name Launch out young Merchant new set up of Wit The World 's before thee and thy Stock is great Sail by thy Muse but never let her guide Then without danger you may safely glide By happyer Studies steer'd and quickly gain The promis'd Indies of a hopeful Brain Bring home a Man betimes that may Create His Country's Glory in the Church or State J. Bankes Drammatis Personae Tamerlane Emperor of the Tartars Bajaset Emperor of the Turks Sons to Tamerlane Arsanes Mandricard Counsellors Odmar Abdalla Friends to Arsanes Axalla Zanches Women Asteria Daughter to Bajaset Ispatia Wife to Mandricard Zayda Confident of Asteria Priests Guards Attendants c. Scene Samarcanda PROLOGUE HOw modern Prologues differ from the Old Those su'd and pray'd but these huff rail and scold Now sure the Poets of our age presume They have out-done the wits of Greece and Rome Who by ill-natur'd Satyr strive t' obtain What they by low submission sought to Gain What bold Offendor ever yet found Grace By spitting vilely in his Iudges Face Yet they so fondly do themselves esteem They hiss at you yet think you shou'd Clap them Nay Branding you for Fools in open Pit Hold it your Duty to cry up their Wit Vollies of Curses on your heads they send Damn one of them They injur'd right pretend And with unreasonable Confidence Excuse their Failings by your want of Sense Some things you may not understand 't is true 'T is more then Oedipus himself can doe None of your Actions can their Censure pass Your Cravat Wig French-dress or Pocket-glass No not so much as Whore Do you dress well then rudely they Suppose Your Taylor made your Wit as well as Cloths Have you a well-becoming Wig They 'l Swear You Bought Your falser Senses in false Hair Thus turn your Wit to Scorn yet think it much If you their husky Farce or puffy Bombast touch Thus Malecontents wou'd Laws to Rulers give But think it Tyranny if they receive Let not their railings Loyal Poets blind That you 'r no Fools we by your Patience find Fools will be Angry but you still are Kind Then in that Old not this New-fangled way To you our Author do's his Thanks repay For your kind meeting on this happy Day If he Offend he do's your Grace Implore And Swears to mend or Trouble you no more Theives for one Crime have often Scap'd the Rope Nay Priests and Plotters are not out of Hope Then Spare our Author for a Nobler Fate He yet deserves your Pity not your Hate 〈…〉 Magnes in Russel-Street near Covent-Garden ALL the Tragedies and Comedies of Francis Beumont and Iohn Flesher in one Volume containing fifty one Plays Tartuff or the French Puritan Forc'd Marriage or the Jealous Bride English Monsieur All Mistaken or the mad Couple Generous Enemies Andromacha A Tragedy Calisto or the Masque at Court Country-Wit A Comedie Destruction of Ierusalem 2 parts Miseries of Civil VVar. Henry 6. with the Murder of the Duke of Glocester Nero a Tragedie Gloriana a Tragedie Sophonisba or Hanibals overthrow Alexander the Great or the Rival Queens Mithridates King of Pontus Caesar Borgia Son of Pope Alexander 6. Oedipus King of Thebes Theodosius or the Force of Love The Plain Dealer The Town-Fop or Sir Timothy Taudry Abdullazar or the Moors Revenge Madam Fickle or the Witty False one The Fond Husband or the Plotting Sisters The Vertuous Wife or good luck at last The Fool turn'd Critick a Comedie Squire Oldsap or the Night Adventurers The Mistaken Husband a Comedie Mr. Limberham or the Kind Keeper Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco The Orphan or unhappy Marriage The Souldiers Fortune Sertorius A Tragedie Tamberlane the Great King Lear. Novels Printed this Year 1680. The Amours of the King of Tamaran The Amours of the French King and Madam Laniler The Amours of Madam and the Count de-Guich The Pilgrim A Satyrical Novel on the horrible Villanies of those Persons The Secret History of the Earl of Essex and Queen Elizabeth The Policy of the Clergie of France to suppress the Protestants of that Kingdom Tamerlane the Great ACT I. Scene I. The Curtain being drawn up discovers the Temple of Mahomet in it Tamerlane Mandricard Odmar Abdalla and Priests who sing the following Hymn Pr. SIng we Alha Lord of Fate Father Ruler of this State In whose hand are War and Peace Overthrows and Victories Sing we to thy Pow'r Divine At whose Nod the Heavens Bow To whom Gods Allegiance owe Whose just Favour Kings doth Crown Monarchs perish at whose Frown Sing we at thy Holy Shrine Ch. Accept our Thanks accept our Praise Our solemn Vows our Eulogies The Altars which our Hearts do raise Accept the humble Sacrifice Pr. To thee Alha Virgins Sing To thee Tune each Tender String Carry'd by an Holy Zeal Of the Pious Matrons tell To thy Grace Triumphant Youth To thee glad Old Age doth Kneel Nor do Kings thy Power Conceal But all admire all Confess iTs thou Cursest thou dost Bless To thee owe their Rise and Growth Ch. Accept our Thanks c. Pr. See the Trophies see the Spoils The glad Harvest of our Toils See the Scythian Majesty Crown'd with Peace and Victory To his Scepter Turk giv'n To him Conquer'd Asi● bows To him th' Earth her Freedom owes Fear we now no blow of Fate 'T is Iust Alha rules our State And our King 's the Care of Heav'n Ch. Accepted are our thanks our Praise Our Solemn Vows our Eulogies ' The Altars which our Hearts do raise Accepted is the Sacrifice After the Hymn Tamerlane Mandricard Odmar Abdalla with Guards come forward on the Stage and the Scene changes to the Pallace Tam. After our Sacred Rites to Alha paid 'T is fit we show our second Thanks in Joy And Triumphs which to Victory are due Let Scythia now Arrai'd in all the Pride Of Conquer'd Asia dart her Glory to The utmost Gades and to the utmost Ind. Let all her sleeping Monarchs rise and see How far her new-got Liberties Extend And as of Old her Vertue has alone Assyrian and Pellaean Arms withstood Nor dar'd