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We must quite know ere speak these things concerning:

For to conjecture and "quite know" are two things.

This same to praise I from all sides abound in—

Clearly to know—Atreides, what he's doing!

Much having been before to purpose spoken,

The opposite to say I shall not shamed be:

For how should one, to enemies,—in semblance,

Friends,—enmity proposing,—sorrow's net-frame

Enclose, a height superior to outleaping?

To me, indeed, this struggle of old—not mindless