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Oh, save us, save us, our King! The fire is on all sides of us!

Fool, get up, lose no more time.

King, O my King! save me, save me from death! I am surrounded by fire.

Who is the King? I am no King.

You are not the King?

No, I am a hypocrite, I am a scoundrel. (Flinging his crown on the ground.) Let my deception and hypocrisy be shattered into dust! [Goes out with