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 | | Then king Qi was diligent for the royal House, and my deceased father, King Wen, completed his merit, and received the great decree of Heaven to soothe the regions of the great bright land. |
 | | Shou, the king of Shang, is without principle, cruel and destructive to the creatures of Heaven, injurious and tyrannical to the multitudes of the people, chief of the vagabonds of the empire, who collect about him as fish in the deep, and beasts in the prairie. |
 | | The people were greatly terrified, and the king and great officers, all in their caps of state, proceeded to open the metal-bound coffer and examine the writings, when they found the words of the duke of Zhou when he took on himself the business of taking the place of king Wu. |
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