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Until we reach the ripest fruit of all,, That perfect bliss and sole felicity,, The Sweet fruition of an earthly, , crown., , At the end of Part I, Tamburlaine basks, in the glory of his “earthly crown.” However, the conqueror’s poetic side is less and, less in evidence in Part II, as further conquests are achieved through treachery and, an ever-widening trail of atrocities. By the, end of the play, Tamburlaine’s inhuman, cruelty, arrogance, and over-arching lust for, power have branded him one of history’s, greatest tyrants. Despite his many enemies,, however, in the end he is brought down not, by military foes, but by sickness, perhaps, divine punishment for the unparalleled, hubris that led him to call himself “the, Scourge of God.”