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"Seeing that my father Henry is dead, and that I am King; seeing also that I am no longer a bachelor, but a married man" -- and here he bowed to Margaret of Tuscany, his newly wedded wife; "and seeing that Osra's turned twenty years of age -- why, we are all to be sober folk at Strelsau from this day forward, and we are to play no more pranks. Here's a pledge to it!"
And having said this, King Rudolf III. took a deep draught of wine.