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What?<br />

As I say.<br />

AGNETE.<br />

KING.<br />

AGNETE.<br />

No, sire!<br />

You have broken your promise, you are mock<strong>in</strong>g me!<br />

KING.<br />

I am tell<strong>in</strong>g the truth; is that so <strong>in</strong>credible?<br />

AGNETE.<br />

You are like one of us, of flesh and blood.<br />

KING.<br />

My child! Is not a k<strong>in</strong>g of flesh and blood?<br />

AGNETE.<br />

No, sire, no! He is a fleet<strong>in</strong>g mist,<br />

Who hovers for a whiff <strong>in</strong> the even<strong>in</strong>g breeze;<br />

His heart has no blood, his bones have no marrow,<br />

He has no resemblance to you.<br />

KING.<br />

God's death!<br />

I call that a pretty conception of a k<strong>in</strong>g!<br />

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