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Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I recently had the privilege of seeing the great classic actor John Douglas Thompson in the role of Tamburlaine. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine makes no apologies for the rise of his shepherd to the heights of power, and frustrates the traditional tragedy by letting a ruthless character with an arsenal of tragic flaws fly through the play untouched. For readers, the boundless Tamburlaine becomes almost absurd, but a theme of the play resonates with the modern world, as Tamburlaine operates like an rogue entrepreneur who leaves the farm to become the owner of Persia, all while rejecting the forms of entitlement common to his age and redefining the rules of the game.

He pulls himself up by his own bootstraps, like various modern leaders of the 20th century. However, his goal has no mapped out ideal behind it, other than the blind ambition and ruthless tactics he needs to uproot the status quo. The play begins with infighting among the Persian nobles, with Cosroe tormenting his brother, the king, Mycetes. At first sight, their banter seems comedic, but the subtext of the opening scene leads to further simplicities and exposes the single-minded holes in the mindset of the aristocracy, as the royal brothers beset themselves with power plays and infighting.

They represent the entitled party, the assuming elite, and they label Tamburlaine as a "fox," a "thief" who "robs your merchants," he is "incivil," and operates through "barbarous arms" 1. The initial portrayal of a fox contrasts with the following scene, where the characterization changes to a "lion" 1. Techelles, who at first seems a pandering subordinate, believes in Tamburlaine: Likewise, Usumcasane praises his lord Tamburlaine, pledging his life to the cause, with the contract being his own promotion to king.

These first compliments to Tamburlaine feel like gross ambition, like ruthless men willing to cut throats simply for power. And soon enough we realize that the goal of Tamburlaine has no admirable literary novelty propelling it; no, this is blind ambition, and Tamburlaine seeks men to work with him of the same mindset. To retreat to the first scene again, the tone of the play begins with Mycetes and Cosroe bickering over the throne, and by allowing the initial treatment of Tamburlaine to come from a royal court, the reader's perception of Tamburlaine sails off with a handicap of condescension.

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As a petty shepherd, he challenges the highest authorities, without cause. However, what precedes the play remains in the background. Mycetes, an inept leader, enjoys the fruits of one of his ancestor's ambition, and whoever founded the power that he enjoys, surely did not come to his position by goodwill.

In other words, he thinks that Tamburlaine should step back and follow the old adage, "know thyself. We wait for the sun to fall somehow, yet it doesn't. We wait for a cardiac event, but none arrives. Unlike a traditional tragedy, Tamburlaine rides out the end as if the play were a comedy: In a traditional tragedy, Tamburlaine would have to suffer an awful death for his actions, yet Marlowe ignores a full deck of tragic flaws, and lets his hero exit as a king who enjoys a mutual love with Zenocrate, his queen.

The play has a lot of action, but gets very repetitive.

The minor characters are not that interesting, except for Mycetes and Cosroe, who don't live for very long. To Marlowe must surely be given such lines as these in the opening scene: The rhythm of these passages is precisely the same as in the passage lii. It is hard to believe that in its present shape the narrative of Aeneas was written wholly by Marlowe. In parts it is so absurdly grandiose that a very slight heightening is required in order to get the effect of burlesque. Let us take the description of the slaughter of Priam: If these lines are Marlowe's they must have been written at the very beginning of his career.

Compared with this extraordinary passage the rant of Tamburlaine is tame. It seems probable that Marlowe left the scene unfinished, and that Nashe worked it up into its present ridiculous shape. If the lines I have quoted are Nashe's he must surely have been laughing in his sleeve when he wrote them. The exquisite fragment of Hero and Leander, which was entered in the Stationers' Books on 28th September , was first published in , and a second edition, 1 Edition: From a passage of the Third Sestiad it appears that Marlowe, perhaps with a foreboding of his untimely death, had enjoined upon Chapman the task of completing the poem.

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The lines are these;—. When Chapman is inspired he is not always articulate. But if it has any meaning at all, Edition: It would not be rash to assert that Chapman had encouraged Marlowe to proceed with the poem, or that it had been originally undertaken at Chapman's request. Marlowe must have expressed a desire that in the event of his death Chapman should edit and complete the poem, a duty which Chapman solemnly pledged himself to perform.

In my judgment the passage shows that Chapman not only had a profound admiration for Marlowe, but had been on terms of intimate friendship with him. Among all the Elizabethan poets there was none whose genius fitted him to complete the poem of Hero and Leander. The music of Marlowe's rhymed heroics was all his own; he was a master without pupils. In Michael Drayton's Heroical Epistles, which need fear no comparison with Ovid's Heroides, we find fluency and freedom and sweetness; but the clear, rich, fervent notes of Hero and Leander were heard but once.

No less truly than finely does Mr. Swinburne say that the Edition: There are couplets in the Tale of Teras Fifth Sestiad that for purity of colour and perfection of form are hardly excelled by anything in the first two sestiads; such passages, however, are few. Hero and Leander sprang at once into popularity. Sometimes the poem is mentioned m company with Venus and Adonis. O two luscious marrow-bone pies for a young married wife. Marlowe's translation of the First Book of Lucan was entered in the Stationers' Books on 28th September , but no earlier edition than the quarto of is now known to exist.

Lucan's name stood much higher in Elizabethan times than in our own day. His grandiloquence, his artificiality, his frigid rhetoric have blinded modern readers to the genuine power which the author of the Pharsalia undoubtedly possessed. But he could rap out telling lines, and he had an imposing vocabulary. Marlowe's version of the first book of the Pharsalia is a piece of close translation, more poetical in some passages than the original, but not doing justice to Lucan in single lines. In the description of the prodigies observed at Rome after Caesar's passage of the Rubicon the advantage is undoubtedly Marlowe's, but on the other hand Lucan's pregnant antitheses and telling phrases are often insufficiently rendered, as where the famous line.

But I venture to think that the lines are not wan ting in variety of pause to any very noticeable extent. In judging of epic blank verse, it is difficult to avoid a reference to Milton; and of course if we compare the rhythm of Marlowe's translation with the rhythm of Paradise Lost —cadit quaestio. But let us dismiss Milton from our minds, and let us select some of the strongest lines from the translation: That passage can be read throughout with pleasure.

Though not wholly free from monotony, the lines are not stiff; the pause at the end of the line occurs somewhat too frequently to thoroughly satisfy the ear, but as a whole, the passage is at once massive and flexible. I suspect that the translation was intended chiefly as a metrical experiment. As the rhymed heroics of the translation of the Amores were the prelude to Hero and Leander, so the blank verse of the First Book of Lucan may have been a preparatory exercise for a projected epic. The reader will note with some surprise the unusual number of double-endings in the translation of Lucan.

In less than lines the double-endings are no fewer than ;a 1 while in Edward II.

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We should naturally expect to find the proportion higher in dramatic than epic blank verse. In the former we look for greater freedom and a less accentuated rhythm; in the latter for a fuller and more sonorous volume of sound. Milton uses double-endings very sparingly. It is well known that, though Shakespeare's name is on the title-page, the pieces in this collection are by various hands. The complete song first appeared, with the author's name, C.

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Marlowe, subscribed, in that most charming of Elizabethan anthologies, England's Helicon, Dyce thought that the lines were extracted from some printed composition now unknown; but I do not share Dyce's confidence that the editor of the anthology, Robert Allot, never resorted to manuscript sources. It is now time to set down what is known of Marlowe's personal history. One thing it is pleasant to record,— that he was under the patronage of Sir Thomas Walsing-ham.

To this worthy patron Hero and Leander was dedicated in by Edward Blunt, the publisher, in language which showed a genuine regard for the deceased Edition: I give the dedication in full, as it has not received due attention from Marlowe's editors: By these meditations as by an intellectual will I suppose myself executor to the unhappily deceased author of this poem; upon whom knowing that in his lifetime you bestowed many kind favours, entertaining the parts of reckoning and worth which you found in him with good countenance and liberal affection, I cannot but see so far into the will of him dead, that whatsoever issue of his brain should chance to come abroad, that the first breath it should take might be the gentle air of your liking; for since his self had been accustomed thereunto, it would prove more agreeable and thriving to his right children than any other foster-countenance whatsoever.

It is plain that Edward Blount had a sincere admiration and pity for Marlowe. When vials of venom were being poured on the dead man's head, it required some courage to speak Edition: In Marlowe's time there were no fine distinctions. Any who ventured to impugn the authenticity of the biblical narrative spoke and wrote at their own deadly peril.

In February Francis Kett, fellow of Benet College, Cambridge,—the College of which Marlowe had been a member,—was burnt at Norwich for holding unorthodox views about the Trinity and about Christ's divinity. Such being the state of society, prudence would naturally have dictated that each man should keep his private views to himself, or at least that he should have explained them only to his most intimate friends. Why should thy excellent wit, his gift, be so blinded that thou shouldest give no glory to the giver? Is it pestilent Machivilian policie that thou hast studied?

O peevish [old ed. What are his rules but meere confused mockeries, able to extirpate in small time the generation of mankinde?

The brocher of this dyabolicall atheisme is dead, and in his life had never the felicitie he aymed at, but, as he beganne in craft, lived in feare, and ended in dispaire. Quam inscrutabilia sunt Dei judicia! This murderer of many brethren had his conscience seared like Cayne; this betrayer of him that gave his life for him inherited the portion of Judas; this apostata perished as ill as Julian: Looke unto mee, by him per-swaded to that libertie, and thou shalt finde it an infernall bondage. I know the least of my demerits merit this miserable death; but wilfull striving against knowne truth exceedeth all the terrors of my soule.

Deferre not with mee till this kst point of extremitie; for little Edition: Greene died in September , and the tract must have been published immediately afterwards. Its publication caused much excitement, and the rumour went abroad that the pamphlet was a forgery. Some attributed it to Chettle, others to Nashe. Both these writers quickly came forward to disclaim all share in the authorship. In the preface to Chettle's Kind-Harts Dreame, a tract entered in the Stationers' Books in December and published immediately afterwards, occurs the following passage: Robert Greene, leaving many papers in sundry book-sellers hands; among other, his Groantsworth of Wit, in which a letter written to diver play-makers is offensively by one or two of them taken; and because on the dead they cannot be avenged, they wilfully forge in their conceites a living author; and after tossing it two [to] and fro, no remedy, but it must light on me.

How I have all the time of my conversing in printing hindred the bitter inveying against schollers, it hath been very well knowne, and how in that I dealt I can sufficiently proove. With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them [i. Marlowe] I care not if I never be: Shakespeare], whome at that time I did not so much spare as since I wish I had, for that as I have moderated the heate of living writers, and might have used my owne discretion especially in such a case Edition: For the first, whose learning I reverence, and, at the perusing of Greenes booke, stroke out what then in conscience I thought he in some displeasure writ, or, had it beene true, yet to publish it was intollerable, him I would wish to use me no worse than I deserve.

I had onely in the copy this share; it was il written, as sometime Greenes hand was none of the best; licensd it must be, ere it could bee printed, which could never be if it might not be read: Chettle had no personal knowledge of Marlowe; he judged only from common report. It is to his credit that, prejudiced as he was, he had the good feeling to temper the virulence of Greene's attack.

In Pierces Supererogation which is dated 2yth April, , Gabriel Harvey accuses Nashe of disloyalty to his friends, among whom he particularly mentions Marlowe. Apis Lapis, Greene, Marlow, Chettle, and whom not? But see what a hooke the Lord put in the nostrils of this barking dogge!

But herein did the justice of God most notably appeare, in that hee compelled his owne hand, which had written those blasphemies, to bee the instrument to punish him, and that in his braine which had deuised the same.

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Francis Meres in Palladis Tamia, , writes: From Vaughan's Golden Grove, , Dyce quotes a somewhat different account: But see the effects of God's justice! It so happened that at Detford, a little village about three miles distant from London, as he meant to stab with his ponyard one named Ingram that had inuited him thither to a feast and was then playing at tables, hee quickly perceyving it, so avoyded the thrust, that withall drawing out his dagger for his defence, hee stabd this Marlow into the eye, in such sort that, his braynes comming out at the daggers point, hee shortly after dyed.

Thus did God, the true executioner of diuine iustice, Edition: The only sense to be got out of the lines is that Marlowe had fallen a victim to the plague. We know that the plague was raging at that time in the metropolis. Probably Gabriel Harvey was staying in the country, to be out of the reach of infection, 1 when he wrote his Newe Letter.

Hearing the report of Marlowe's death he had taken it for granted, when he raised his whoop of exultation, that the poet had died of the plague. We may be sure that, if he had been acquainted at the time with the true account of Marlowe's tragic end, he would have gloated over every detail with ghoul-like ferocity.

Though Marlowe took no active part, so far as we know, in supporting Nashe, he seems not to have attempted to Edition: In Pierces Supererogation p. Nashe's] gayest flourishes are but Gascoigne's weedes or Tarleton's trickes, or Greene's crankes or Marlowe's bravadoes. It must be frankly conceded that Marlowe not only abandoned Christianity, but had the reputation of leading a vicious life. In the Returne from Pernassus, an anonymous academical play, printed in , but acted before the death of Queen Elizabeth, while high praise is paid to his genius, regret is expressed for the disorderli-ness of his life: Among the Harleian MSS.

Doubtless Bame was backed by some person or persons of power and position. It was a deliberate attempt on the part of some fanatics to induce the public authorities to institute a prosecution for blasphemy against the poet. How the charges would have been met it is not easy to say; probably his friends—particularly his patron Sir Thomas Wal-singham—would have been powerful enough to avert any serious danger. To a modern reader many of the charges put forward by Bame seem too silly to deserve any serious attention.

If Marlowe had been a man of such abandoned principles as his enemies represented, I strongly doubt whether Chapman, who was distinguished for strictness of life, would have cherished his memory with such affection and respect. To my mind the apostrophe to Marlowe in the Third Sestiad of Hero and Leander shows clearly that the two poets were on terms of intimacy, and I fail to understand how Dyce arrived at the opposite conclusion.

It is much to be regretted that no copy can now be found of the elegy on Marlowe written by Nashe and prefixed to the Tragedy of Dido, Tragedy of Dido] perfecit et edidit Tho. Petowe's encomium, to which Tanner refers, runs thus: Other admirers of Marlowe were not silent. Much has been written of Marlowe in glowing verse and eloquent prose by writers of our own time; but not even Mr. Swinburne's impassioned praise is finer than the pathetic Death of Marlowe, published nearly half a century ago by the poet who passed so recently, full of years, from the ingratitude of a forgetful generation.

As some adventurous Greek of old might have sailed away, with warning voices in his ears, past the Edition: What Marlowe might have achieved if his life had not been so cruelly cut short it were vain to speculate. The enthusiasm which has led some of his admirers to hint that he might have seriously contested Shakespeare's claim to supremacy is uncritical and absurd.

Chapman speaks of men. There are passages of Marlowe that for majesty and splendour can never be forgotten; but before the magical cadences of Antony and Cleopatra all the voices of the world fall dumb. Shakespeare began his career as a pupil of Marlowe; the lesser poet was self-taught. It remains to discuss briefly certain plays in which critics have alleged that Marlowe was concerned. The wretched Lamm for London 2 and still more wretched Locrine may be at once dismissed as unworthy of the slightest notice.

The Taming of a Shrew contains a number of passages that closely resemble, or are identical with, passages in Marlowe's undoubted plays—particularly Tamburlaine. This fact alone would make us suspect that Marlowe was not the author; for poets of Marlowe's class do not repeat themselves in this wholesale manner.

But when we see how maladroitly, without the slightest regard to the context, these passages are introduced, then we may indeed wonder that any critic could have Edition: Here is a fair sample of the writing: This passage is patched up from the First Part of Tam-burlaine: In another passage we have a mention of. Occasionally lines are filched from Faustus; —.

The italicised words are from scene vL L 29 of Faustus. In my judgment the anonymous writer was sometimes engaged in imitating Marlowe and sometimes in burlesquing him. But be this as it may, the absurdity of attributing the piece to Marlowe is flagrant.

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The author of the Taming of a Shrew was a genuine humourist; and Mr. We may therefore safely dismiss the Taming of a Shrew; but with Titus Andronicus the case is different. As I re-read this play after coming straight from the study of Marlowe, I find again and again passages that, as it seems to me, no hand but his could have written.

It is not easy in a question of this kind to set down in detail reasons for our belief. Marlowe's influence permeated so thoroughly the dramatic literature of his day, that it is hard sometimes to distinguish between master and pupil. When the master is writing at his best there is no difficulty, but when his work is hasty and ill-digested, or has been left incomplete and has received additions from other hands, then our perplexity is great.

In our disgust at the brutal horrors that crowd the pages of Titus Andronuus, we must beware of blinding ourselves to the imaginative power that marks much of the writing. In Aaron's soliloquy at the opening of act ii. There is the ring of Tamburlaine in such lines as these: Both rhythm and diction in the following lines remind us of Marlowe's earliest style: Aaron's confession of his villainies in v.

The character of Aaron was either drawn by Marlowe or in close imitation of him; and it seems to me more reasonable to suppose that Titus Andronicus is in the main a crude early work of Marlowe's than that any imitator could have written with such marked power. But the great difficulty lies in determining to whom we should assign the frantic ravings of old Andronicus.

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They appear to be by another hand than Marlowe's; and they cannot, with any degree of plausibility, be assigned to Shakespeare. I have sometimes thought that there are traces of his hand in the very first scene,—and not beyond it; that he began to revise the play, and gave up the task in disgust. It is of Shakespeare rather than of Marlowe that we are reminded in such lines as—. But however closely we may look for them, we shall find very few Shakespearean passages. Of Marlowe's earliest style we are constantly and inevitably reminded.

That Marlowe had a share in all three parts of Henry VI. The opening lines of the First Part at once recall the language and rhythm of Tambur-laine, and the closing lines are suggestive of a passage of Edward II.

The opening lines are: A closer parallel, whether as regards rhythm or expression, could hardly be found. The two lines with which the First Part closes are: Very similar are Mortimer's words in Edward II. To Shakespeare we can assign with certainty only the scene in the Temple Garden and Talbot's last battle, to which may be perhaps added Suffolk's courtship of Margaret.

In my judgment the rest of the play is chiefly Marlowe's. I would fain shift from Marlowe's shoulders to Peek's the scene in which the memory of Joan of Arc is so shamefully slandered; but I am convinced that the composition of that scene was beyond Peele's powers.

The subject is one of the highest possible interest, but for adequate discussion a lengthy essay would be needed. It is important to note that the edition of the Whole Contention preserves in some passages a text partially revised. The fact would seem to be that there existed several copies of the plays in various stages of revision. There is no possibility of discovering the early unrevised text in its integrity. The first editions and present a text that had Edition: It is more than probable that in many passages of the earliest editions we have a garbled text; for even Peele or Greene might have reasonably considered themselves aggrieved at being held responsible for such lines as these: These jerky disjointed lines must have been hashed up from short-hand notes.

I will now state my own views very briefly. I hold that Shakespeare worked on a full and accurate MS. Unless we suppose that Shakespeare had the full text of the early plays before him, I do not know how we are to account for the introduction into the revised plays of passages by Marlowe not found in the earlier copies.

Critics have pointed out that the opening lines of act iv. The difficulty lies in determining how much of the additional matter found in the later copies belongs to Shakespeare and how much to Marlowe. It may be true, as Mr. Marlowe appears to have worked early and late at the Contention; in one scene we find passages that recall the diction and rhythm of Tamburlaine, in another we are reminded of Edward II. In i Tamburlaine, iv. Another passage of the Contention in Marlowe's earliest style is to be found in the scene where the king is presented by Iden with Cade's head: In the Contention we find Marlowe's earliest and latest work; but in the Second and Third Parts of Henry VI, we find for the most part merely his latest work.

For example, the two passages I have just quoted are not in the revised plays. But I cannot now pursue this subject. The Troublesome Reign of King John, , is an intolerably wooden piece of work. From the first line to the last we find scarcely a single touch of poetry or power. Earless and unabashed must be the critic who would charge Marlowe with any complicity in the authorship of a play that would rank low among the worst productions of Greene or Peele.

The only piece of evidence to connect the play with Marlowe is a passage in the Prologue: The fact that expressions found in Tamburlaine occur in the Troublesome Reign, is, in the absence of other evidence, of no importance; for Marlowe's play was in all men's mouths at the time, and every hack-writer could filch a phrase or two from the man whom they were so anxious to supplant. It is impossible to select from this poor spiritless chronicle-play a dozen consecutive lines that to a good ear would pass as Marlowe's. So much, then, for Marlowe's relation to plays of doubtful authorship.

The piece had been entered in the Stationers' Books on April 8th, , as a joint production of Marlowe and Day. Our knowledge of Day does not begin before , and it is hardly probable that he was writing before that date. If the comedy was written by Marlowe and Day, then we must suppose that Day completed a sketch that had been left by Marlowe, or that he revised the play on the occasion of a revival; but I very much doubt whether Marlowe ever wrote a comedy.

A Tragedie written by Christofer Marloe, Gent. This is a play of some power, but it was certainly not written by Marlowe. Collier showed conclusively that there are references to historical events that happened after Marlowe's death. I hasten to bring these remarks to a close. Far be it from me to attempt to weigh Marlowe's genius.

So long as high tragedy continues to have interest for men, Time shall lay no hands on the works of Christopher Marlowe. In all literature there are few figures more attractive, and few more exalted, than this of the young poet who swept from the English stage the tatters of barbarism, and habited Tragedy in stately robes; who was the first to conceive largely, and exhibit souls struggling in the bonds of circumstance.

Two editions of Tamburlaine —one in , the other in Svo— were published in Of the we have only the title-page and the Address to the Readers, which were found pasted in a copy of the First Part of Tamburlaine preserved in the Bridgewater Collection. In the Bodleian Library there is a perfect copy of the Svo of both parts.

The title-pages of the Svo and agree verbatim, and run as follows: Who, from a Scythian Shephearde by his rare and tuoonderfull Conquests, became a most puissant and mightye Monarque. And far his tyranny, and terrour in Warn tvas tearmed, The Scourge of God. Discourses, as they were sundrie times shewed upon Stages in the Cttie of London. By the right honorable the lord Admyrall, his seruauntes. Ncrw first, and newlie published. They represent the entitled party, the assuming elite, and they label Tamburlaine as a "fox," a "thief" who "robs your merchants," he is "incivil," and operates through "barbarous arms" 1.

The initial portrayal of a fox contrasts with the following scene, where the characterization changes to a "lion" 1. Techelles, who at first seems a pandering subordinate, believes in Tamburlaine: Likewise, Usumcasane praises his lord Tamburlaine, pledging his life to the cause, with the contract being his own promotion to king. These first compliments to Tamburlaine feel like gross ambition, like ruthless men willing to cut throats simply for power. And soon enough we realize that the goal of Tamburlaine has no admirable literary novelty propelling it; no, this is blind ambition, and Tamburlaine seeks men to work with him of the same mindset.

To retreat to the first scene again, the tone of the play begins with Mycetes and Cosroe bickering over the throne, and by allowing the initial treatment of Tamburlaine to come from a royal court, the reader's perception of Tamburlaine sails off with a handicap of condescension. As a petty shepherd, he challenges the highest authorities, without cause. However, what precedes the play remains in the background. Mycetes, an inept leader, enjoys the fruits of one of his ancestor's ambition, and whoever founded the power that he enjoys, surely did not come to his position by goodwill.

The play has a lot of action, but gets very repetitive. The minor characters are not that interesting, except for Mycetes and Cosroe, who don't live for very long. I love the "Tamburlaine" of Christopher Marlowe, because I've read it and couldn't resist it. The story is not melodramatically forced, but rather follows in a smooth and epic line, giving it the texture of a documentary.

As a tragedy it's weird, encompassing all drifts of literature: People commenting on Marlowe's work usually regard him as psychologically shallow, but in this play the terrifying hero is so charismatically evoked in his language, sometimes rhetoric and sometimes commonplace, that I left the book with a queer sense of something between love and dread.

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