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206 strikes a most noble attitude, with one leg shoved forwards, and his arms stretched away up, and his head tilted back, looking up at the sky; and then he begins to rip and rave and grit his teeth; and after that, all through his speech he howled, and spread around, and swelled up his chest, and just knocked the

spots out of any acting ever I see before. This is the speech—I learned it, easy enough, while he was learning it to the king: