IV, i, s.d. issue ed. (issues O1)

6 conquering ed. (conquerings O1)

14 proper own
foil defeat

19 were ed. (ware O1)

24 still constantly

26 to flesh … swords to fight our first battle

33 tall brave

34 toward forward, promising

42 Zona Mundi a mountain range in Tartary, an area of central Asia east of the
Caspian

52 list like

65 s.d. The staging here, as at the beginning of the scene, requires an inner area to serve as the tent, visible to the audience but removed from the main playing area

67 taratantaras bugle calls

68 and i.e. who

73 coil commotion

75 stoops humble

78 illustrate adorn, shed lustre upon

94 Shroud shelter, harbour
may which may

99 argument of arms necessity of military life

103 jealousy zeal

104 Samarcanda Samarkand, Tamburlaine’s birthplace

105 joyed took delight in

106 foil disgrace

107 which ed. (with O1)
Jaertis’ stream the river Jaxartes, which flows west from Tartary to the Caspian Sea

109 distainèd stained, dishonoured

110–14 Here Jove … consists Ellis-Fermor paraphrases: ‘Here Jove receive again the soul of Calyphas, a spirit (i.e. “form” almost in the sense of “idea”) not worthy to be the immortal part (essence) of that subject whose mortal part (matter) is derived from the flesh of Tamburlaine – in whom moves an immortal spirit of the same mould as thine own.’ She observes that ‘form’, ‘subject’, ‘essence’, and ‘matter’ are used in strict accordance with the tradition of sixteenth-century Aristotelian logic.

120 thy i.e. Jove’s

121 In … soul by sending such a soul as Calyphas to be my child

123 tartar dregs (as of a wine cask)

127 he … head the Titans who warred against Jove

128 Atlas the Titan who was condemned to bear the heavens on his shoulders

130 for being seen to avoid being seen

136 Approve find out by experience

140–44 See Part One, V, ii, 397–400 and note.

146 repute regard as

156 resist in ed. (resisting O1)

163 faint faint-hearted

165 likes pleases

170 Rhadamanth and Aeacus with Minos, the judges of the Greek underworld

173 virtue power

175 affections emotions

176 artier artery

178 remorseful compassionate

186 Cimbrian The Cimbri were a Celtic people who defeated several Roman armies in the second century B.C. Marlowe’s association of the Cimbri with bulls apparently derives from Spenser’s Faerie Queene, I, viii, 11.

187 females’ miss i.e. the loss of their mates

188 their following following them

194 Incense set on fire

202 tilting jousting