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Therefore give ear, and let the Book of Gold / Tempt thee no more, till all my tale be told. -- / It happened in the days of MERNAB-PTAH, / The long days, when the King was very old,
And had no son nor daughter; in their room / A son's son and a daughter's daughter, whom / Thou seest, NEFREKEPTA the Good Scribe, / And me who watch beside him in this tomb.