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From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits,
And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay,
We’ll lead you to the stately tent of war,
Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine
Threatening the world with high astounding terms,
. . . . . . . . .
View but his picture in this tragic glass.
And then applaud his fortunes as you please.
The first speaker, Mycetas, follows this with equally indicative
words:
Brother Cosroe, I find myself aggriev’d;
Yet insufficient to express the same,
For it requires a great and thundering speech: