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“Leave her to me,” rejoin’d the magian:

“But how shall I account, illustrious fay!

For thine imperial absence? Pho! I can

Say you are very sick, and bar the way

To your so loving courtiers for one day;

If either of their two Archbishops’ graces

Should talk of extreme unction, I shall say

You do not like cold pig with Latin phrases,

Which never should be used but in alarming cases.”