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Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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Does homage to him for my sovereign.

SEG.
Fidelity that held his Prince in chains!

CLO.
Fidelity more fast than had it loosed him--

SEG.
Ev'n from the very dawn of consciousness
Down at the bottom of the barren rocks,
Where scarce a ray of sunshine found him out,
In which the poorest beggar of my realm
At least to human-full proportion grows--
Me! Me--whose station was the kingdom's top
To flourish in, reaching my head to heaven,
And with my branches overshadowing
The meaner growth below!

CLO.
Still with the same
Fidelity--

SEG.
To me!--

CLO.
Ay, sir, to you,
Through that divine allegiance upon which
All Order and Authority is based;
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