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462 That whoso asked her for his wife, His riddle told not, lost his life: So for her many a wight did die, As yon grim looks do testify."


 * "Ant.Young prince of Tyre,

Though by the tenour of our strict edict, Your exposition misinterpreting, We might proceed to cancel of your days; Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise: Forty days longer we do respite you; If by which time our secret be undone,