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Discoursing thus they reached the levèe-hall, wherein that great and glorious Emperor sat on a cushion’d couch which, though ’twas small, for work and worth was never seen before:
- Showed his reclining gest imperial a potent, grave, and prosperous Signior:
- Golden his loin-cloth, and the diadem that crowns his brow doth blaze with many a gem.