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“And, since of subjects King may thus require, for of the Head should members heed the sway, thou, kingly officed, never shalt desire the liege his lord’s command to disobey; but the high ben’efits, and those gifts still higher by thee bestow’d, he prom’iseth to repay with all that done by him or his can be long as the rolling rivers seek the Sea.”

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