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Rh have shown thee the laws of the contest, its genius, and its principles, and every sign; and there lacketh not one about whom I have not written.

Excepting that we have not yet spoken of the woman, She sitteth at the top of the high places by the city, She is clamorous and wilful in her way. She girdeth her loins with strength, Her feet abide not in her house, She moveth in all directions, and turneth about her. Her evolutions are wonderful, her ardor untiring. How beautiful are her steps across the plain!

And the King, clad in black garments, standeth at the fourth post, which is white, over against the next post, which is black, where standeth his Queen. He draweth nigh unto the thick darkness. His eye is upon her, for he hath married an Ethiopian woman. They shall come out against thee one way, with one move-