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And all agreed that the law was good;
Save a cousin of the King,
Who came and stood before him,
With complaint and questioning;
"This law, which now your Highness
Has on your lieges laid,
I like it not, though many hearts
It has exultant made.
"Me only does it grieve, and bring
Disaster on my life;
For the lady that I love the best,
Is already wedded wife;
"Wedded she is, wedded amiss;
Ill husband has she got.
And oft does pity fill my heart
For her distressful lot.
"And this one thing I tell thee, King,
To none else has it been told:
If I think her love is silver,
She thinks my love is gold."
Then spake Rey Bucar in reply,
This sentence uttered he:
"If thy love be wedded wife, the law
Hath no penalty for thee."

ALMANZOR AND BOBALIAS
The King Almanzor slept one night,
And, oh! his sleep was blest;
Not all the seven Moorish kings
Could dare to break his rest.
The infante Bobalias
Bethought of him and cried:
"Now rouse thee, rouse thee, uncle dear!
And hasten to my side.


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