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466 From other's labours; forth he strive To killen bad, keep good alive; And, to fulfil his prince' desire Sends word of all that haps in Tyre: How Thaliard came full bent with sin, And hid intent, to murder him; And that in Tharsus was not best Longer for him to make his rest: He knowing so put forth to seas, Where when men been, there's seldom ease."

The custom of anointing the body after bathing is a well-known eastern practice; but the nudity of the boy running through the streets with a proclamation, I do not exactly understand.