(3 syl.). A pompous, ranting character in Preston's lamentable
tragedy of that name.
“Give me a cup of sack, to make mine eyes look red: for I must speak
in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses' vein.” —Shakespeare: I Henry IV., ii. 4.
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