Cleon

Cleon
This Tarsus, o’er which I have the government,
A city on whom Plenty held full hand,
For Riches strewed herself even in her streets;
Whose towers bore heads so high they kissed the clouds,
And strangers ne’er beheld but wondered at;
Whose men and dames so jetted and adorned,
Like one another’s glass to trim them by;
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Cleon
Here.
Speak out thy sorrows, which thee bring’st in haste,
For comfort is too far for us to expect.
Lord
We have descried upon our neighboring shore
A portly sail of ships make hitherward.

Thou speak’st like him’s untutored to repeat
“Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.”

Cleon
I thought as much.
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