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and paper, if you will not speak, write the reason of your silence.—The Princess taking the pen in her hand, wrote these lines;
Thro' learning, which doth me adorn,
I very plainly see,
The stars where under I was born,
Prove hazardous to me.
And I in bed have lately dream'd,
What shortly shall ensue,
I seven times shall be condemn'd
In judgment seat by you.
When the Empress read these lines, she was astonished, and being exceedingly troubled to think that she should give judgment seven times against her own daughter, she wrung her hands and lamented.
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