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THE KING OF

Grandfather

It has made me alive, my friend.

Third Citizen

We shall proclaim to the whole world that our King is a lie, the merest and emptiest shadow!

First Citizen

We shall all shout from our housetops that we have no King—let him do whatever he likes if he exists.

Grandfather

He will do nothing at all.

Second Citizen

My son died untimely at twenty-five of raging fever in seven days. Could such a calamity befall me under the rule of a virtuous King?