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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)

CHAPTER LXXVIII
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Tell me, oh king, what are thy thoughts?
Dotest thou on these thy sires?
Art thou more truly royal, that they were kings?
Or more a man, that they were men?
Is it a fable, or a verity about Marjora and the murdered Teei?
But here is the mighty conqueror,--ask him.

Speak to him: son to sire: king to king.

Prick him; beg; buffet; entreat; spurn; split the globe, he will not budge.

Walk over and over thy whole ancestral line, and they will not start.

They are not here.


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