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TAMERLANE.
By Love her self, and Nature thus betray'd,No more she trusts in Pride's fantastick Aid,But bids her Eyes confess the yielding Maid.[Exit Selima, Guards following.
End of the First Act.

ACT II. SCENE I.

SCENE Tamerlane's Camp.

Enter Moneses.
Mon.The dreadful Business of the War is over,And Slaughter, that, from yester Morn till Even,With Giant Steps, past striding o'er the Field,Besmear'd, and horrid with the Blood of Nations,Now weary sits among the mangled Heaps,And slumbers o'er her Prey; while from this CampThe chearful Sounds of Victory, and Tamerlane,Beat the high Arch of Heav'n; deciding Fate,That crowns him with the Spoils of such a Day,Has given it as an Earnest of the World,[Enter Stratocles.That shortly shall be his.My Stratocles!Most happily return'd; might I believe,Thou bring'st me any Joy?
Str. With my best Diligence,This Night, I have enquired of what concerns you.Scarce was the Sun, who shone upon the HorrorOf the past Day, sunk to the western Ocean,When by permission from the Prince Axalla,I mixt among the Tumult of the Warriors,Returning from the Battle: here a TroopOf hardy Parthians red with honst Wounds,

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