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4 Who calleth there quoth Judith then,

with such shrill sounding notes?

This fine minkes surely came not here,

Quoth she, for cutting throats.

Good lord, how Judith blush'd for shame,

when she heard her say so!

King David hearing o' the same,

he to the the gate would go.

Quoth David who knoks there so loud,

and maketh all this ?

You were more kind good Sir, she said,

unto Uriahs wife.

And when thy servant thou didst cause

In battle to be slain;

Thou causedst far more strife than I,

who would come here so fain.

The woman's mad quoth Solomon,

that thus doth taunt a king.

Not half so mad as you, she said,

I trow in many a thing-