What! can ye draw but twenty miles a day,
And have so proud a chariot at your heels,
And such a coachman as great Tamburlaine.
(In the stage direction in Marlowe’s play:
Enter Tamburlaine, drawn in his chariot by Treb´izon and Soria, with bits in their mouths, reins in his left hand, in his right a whip with which he scourgeth them.)
N. Rowe has a tragedy entitled Tamerlane (q. v.).
Tamer Tamed (The), a kind of sequel to Shakespeare’s comedy The Taming of the Shrew. In the Tamer Tamed, Petruchio is supposed to marry a second wife, by whom he is hen-pecked.--Beaumont and Fletcher (1647).
Tamerlane, emperor of Tartary, in Rowe’s tragedy so called, is a noble, generous, high-minded prince, the very glass of fashion for all conquerors, in his forgiveness of wrongs, and from whose example Christians might be taught their moral code. Tamerlane treats Bajazet, his captive, with truly godlike clemency, till the fierce sultan plots his assassination. Then, longer forbearance would have been folly, and the Tartar has his untamed captive chained in a cage, like a wild beast.--N. Rowe, Tamerlane (1702).
It is said that Louis XIV. was Rowe’s “Bajazet,” and William III. his “Tamerlane.”
⁂ Tamerlane is a corruption of Timour Lengh (“Timour, the lame”). He was one-handed and lame also. His name was used by the Persians in terrorem. (See Tamburlaine the Great.)