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46 While I lay upon my bed, water dropped from above upon my eyes; and though, from the nature of the water, I was in danger of becoming blind, I neither could nor would turn my head ever so little to the right hand or to the left." The emperor, hearing this, bequeathed the kingdom to him, thinking him the laziest of the three.

My beloved, the king is the devil; and the three sons, different classes of corrupt men.

king had a wife named Cornelia. It happened, that under a wall in one of the