And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

Ver. 8. Every man in our our tongue] Cleopatra was so skilful in the Eastern tongues that she could readily answer the Ethiopian, Hebrew, Arabian, Syrian, Median, Parthian ambassadors that came unto her; turning and tuning her tongue with ease (as an instrument of many strings, a saith Plutarch) to what dialect soever she listed.

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