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 the court; and on the next day, (being) Yî-khâu, the king died.

The Grand-Guardian then ordered Kung Hwan and Nan-Kung Mâo to instruct Lü Kî, the marquis of Khî, with two shield-and-spearmen, and a hundred guards, to meet the prince Kâo outside the south gate , and conduct him to (one of) the side-apartments (near to that where the king lay), there to be as chief mourner.

On the day Ting-mâo, (two days after the king's death), he ordered (the charge) to be recorded on