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Cirus King of Persea his death.

What Kesar, King, or Prince thou art,
that passes here this way:
Suffer Cirus seauen foote,
to rest his Corpes in clay.

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Whose greedie minde and raging race,
whose fortune frowning wild:
That Cirus shoulde be in Scithia slaine,
by Tomyris, Queene in fielde.
Whose heade was off and bathed in bloode,
to whome the Queene spake first:
Drinke cruell Cirus bloode ynough,
that long for bloode did thirst.