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Come of gods,

Or taken of men? Say, if it be a thing

Lawful to utter.

Ask me not of that,

Seeing it is secret, and may not be told.

Shall he indeed be pluck'd up from his throne

By his wife's hand?

By her womb rather, bearing

A son surpassing his begetter.

Tell me,

Is there for him no conjuring of such peril?