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“Yet thou! who paidest in such sorry ways, such liege, oh King! unjust in this alone, if ne’er ’twas thine to give him grade and praise, ’twas his to give his King a golden throne. Long as Apollo bathes with blessèd rays this ball of Earth, I swear, shall aye be known amid the Great and Good his name and fame, and thine for Av’arice aye shall bear the blame!