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Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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Setting a crown of straw upon his head?

CLO.
Would but your Highness, as indeed I now
Must call you--and upon his bended knee
Never bent Subject more devotedly--
However all about you, and perhaps
You to yourself incomprehensiblest,
But rest in the assurance of your own
Sane waking senses, by these witnesses
Attested, till the story of it all,
Of which I bring a chapter, be reveal'd,
Assured of all you see and hear as neither
Madness nor mockery--

SEG.
What then?

CLO.
All it seems:
This palace with its royal garniture;
This capital of which it is the eye,
With all its temples, marts, and arsenals;
This realm of which this city is the head,
With all its cities, villages, and tilth,
Its armies, fleets, and commerce; all your own;
And all the living souls that make them up,
From those who now, and those who shall, salute you,
Down to the poorest peasant of the realm,
Your subjects--Who, though now their mighty voice
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