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’T is beauty calls, and glory shows the way.

— Nathaniel Lee The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great (1677)

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Act iv., Sc. 2. In stage editions, it is "Leads the way" with various interpolations, among them— / See the conquering hero comes! / Sound the trumpet, beat the drums!— / which was first used by Handel in "Joshua," and afterwards transferred to "Judas Maccabæus." The text of both oratorios was written by Dr. Thomas Morell, a clergyman.

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