And Tamburlane cloked the fantasticall cruelty, he exercised upon Lazars or Leprousmen, with a foolish kinde of humanitie, putting all he could finde or heare-of, to death, (as he said,) to ridde them from so painefull and miserable a life, as they lived.
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Why were they proud? Because fair orange-mounts
Were of more soft ascent than lazar stairs?
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The Servians have a legend, which gives a terrible picture of this national virtue:
“Day departs, and the moon shines upon the white fields of snow. A stranger enters the dwelling of poor Lazar.
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It was on the morning after the arrival of the Mussulman forces upon the plain of Kossova, that a herald, accompanied by a small escort, demanded an interview with the Sultan Murad, on the part of his master, Lazar, the King of Servia.
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