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Solomon King of the Jews and the Queen of Sheba, Balkis, / Talk on the ivory throne, and we well may conjecture their talk is / Solely of things sublime: why else has she sought Mount Zion, / Climbed the six golden steps, and sat betwixt lion and lion?
She proves him with hard questions: before she has reached the / middle / He smiling supplies the end, straight solves them riddle by riddle; / Until, dead-beaten at last, there is left no spirit in her, / And thus would she close the game whereof she was first beginner: